2023 We the People Convening: Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women & Peoples

On October 24th, Asa Washines & Lucy Smartlowit from the Attorney General's Office and Michelle Gladstone-Wade from the Department of Commerce put on a workshop for attendees of the event, which included community members and state agency employees. 

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP) crisis is the culmination of generations of abuse, violence, harmful policy and broken promises by government institutions. The institutional structures and systems within our state, and our nation, do not adequately reflect the experiences of Indigenous people and therefore do not respond in ways that promote healing, justice, and accountability. Data shows that Indigenous people and their communities experience disproportionate rates of violence due to generations of systematic and institutional racism, which also deny justice and accountability.