by Matt Peters   Content advisory: Discussions of sexual violence and other interpersonal violence   The abbreviation MMIW, short for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, was created to name an ongoing crisis affecting indigenous people in North America.(1) In the United States, Native American women are overrepresented in homicide and missing persons cases compared to non-Native women. In some Native American communities, women are murdered at a rate 10 times higher than the national average. In the U.S., challenges related to law enforcement and criminal justice have been a major driver of the crisis, in particular when non-Native perpetrators commit… Read More