MMIW MMIP MMIR CALL TO ACTION 2023

CALL TO ACTION 2023

Red Feather Emergency Alert System Scalable and Replicable in each state on East Coast
Legislature on Race Identification in Race Categories required across Agencies, Organizations, Departments, all state and county programs, educational, law enforcement institutions, judicial systems, the children’s system of care and adult systems of care, to include Protective Services, Victims Services, Mental Health Services, regardless of Blood Quantum and to include: Federally and State Recognized Tribes, as well as Non-Recognized Tribes, and Central and South American indigenous populations, and self-identifying Indigenous people’s for accurate Data Collection from 576 Recognized Tribes and 400+ Unrecognized Tribes
Include Every Child Matters into MMIP Considerations: Database and registry of Boarding School Identified Remains of MMIP Relatives tracking and following Policy & Legislation, combat burden of Identification of Remains from negatively affecting Indigenous Peoples and Communities; Government should be responsible for cost of burden of Identification of Human Remains to be returned to Tribes, and Tribal Members
A Truth, Healing, and Reconciliations Commission to include: Federally and State Recognized Tribes, as well as Non-Recognized Tribes, and Central and South American indigenous populations, and self-identifying Indigenous peoples
TERMINATE data Genocide Practices, End WhiteWashing of the Data, and End Paper Genocide against Indigenous Peoples and communities Effective IMMEDIATELY. End Outlier Data Practices on Smaller subset Races. Have a “No Human subject population too small as a Data Outlier” Policy.
Expand BIA and Specifically, Missing and Murdered Funding Federally to Supports Triaging Missing and Murdered Crises on State levels
Ensure culturally responsible/competent interventions and resources for community supports and interventions to identified Harm & Risk Domains associated with MMIP Crises addressing Health Equity, Social & Economic Equity & Justice
Intervene on Children’s System of Care and end further forced removals and use ICWA to ensure and include culturally specific interventions irrespective of Recognition Status of Tribe
Advocate for Biological Rights for Native American People to not only Exist/Survive but to Thrive Socially and Economically; Geneva Conventions: Articles 2 & 6; e.g. End Blood Quantum Laws
Educate Indigenous People and Communities of effects of Inter and Multigenerational Trauma, Genocidal Violence, and Colonial Violence, highlight Decolonization, and End Violence against Native Americans and cultivate Protective Factors in Native People and Communities