League of Women Voters of Wyoming
(Fremont County, WY) – “Squaw Creek” in Lander will now be known as “Popo Agie Creek,” according to an official statement from the Department of the Interior (DOI) released on September 8. “I feel a deep obligation to use my platform to ensure that
League of Women Voters of the United States votes to recognize that there is an immediate, ongoing, and urgent problem of Missing & Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) Links: Full Motion (scroll about 1/3 down the page) Resolution MMIP Wyoming LWV
Wyoming Draws National Attention to Immediate Problem of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) On June 26, 2022, the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) National Convention delegates overwhelmingly voted to pass Resolution #2022-134 – Action and
Fremont County League of Women Voter’s shares WySac’s MMIP Summary of Facts
The national LWV proceeds very carefully when making public statements. After two years of work, envisioned and guided by members of the LWV of Fremont County, the Wyoming LWV sponsored the MMIP Resolution at the 2022 National Conference in Denver
Deborah Parker, the CEO of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, spoke during an often-tearful press conference. “Our children had names,” Parker said. “Our children had homes. They had families. They had their languages, their regalia, their prayers
To represent the silence of the media and law enforcement in the midst of this crisis, the MMIW movement has used a red hand over the mouth as a symbol. It stands for all the missing women and girls whose
Ray Michelle Nelson teaches a novel writing class on real crime cases. The missing persons cases for indigenous people in the US didn’t meet her criteria for case selection because TOO LITTLE investigation had been done. She found one case
Seeing the absence of another group publicizing missing people in WY, Ms. Desiree Tinoco Ponce (Casper) started her Facebook in 2019 and eventually found interest from the Division of Criminal Investigation. With the campaign efforts of Ms Tinoco, the DCI
The Fremont County LWV has teamed with others in the State to investigate data collection on missing and murdered indigenous people in Wyoming. This article extends some of their findings to national data. Of particular interest to me is the