{"id":6340,"date":"2021-01-06T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=6340"},"modified":"2021-01-06T14:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T19:13:40","slug":"cronkite-news-young-athletes-raise-awareness-for-missing-and-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/01\/06\/cronkite-news-young-athletes-raise-awareness-for-missing-and-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Cronkite News: Young athletes raise awareness for missing and murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"\"jordanmariedaniel\"\r\n
Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel, a distance runner from South Dakota, wanted to do more to help the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Movement, so she made it part of her running experience and featured it on her social media. Photo courtesy Devin Whetstone\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n
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Athletes raise awareness for missing, murdered Indigenous women<\/div>\r\n
Wednesday, January 6, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Averi Roberts<\/div>\r\n
Cronkite News<\/DIV>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nPHOENIX \u2013 The sight can be jarring: As a runner\u2019s graceful stride brings her closer, her face comes into focus.

<\/p>\r\nA rich, red handprint covers her mouth.

<\/p>\r\nWe will not be silenced.<\/em>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe painted hand has become a powerful symbol for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Movement, known as MMIW, a cause boosted by the increasing number of athletes embracing it.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cI didn\u2019t really think the paint would impact me as much,\u201d said Rosalie Fish, a member of the Cowlitz Tribe of southwest Washington and a standout runner whose stops have included the Nike Cross Regional Southwest in Casa Grande. \u201cI would just be running like any other time, except now it would be for other people. But instead, it was actually very emotionally tolling to run for women that were no longer here.\u201d

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<\/p>\r\nAthletes around Arizona have joined the movement. The Mesa Westwood High School girls basketball team wore jerseys at a recent tournament featuring names of missing or murdered women. The boys cross country team from Monument Valley High School on the Navajo Nation Reservation often competes with red handprints on their faces.

<\/p>\r\nA recent study by the Urban Indian Health Institute<\/a> found that only 116 of 5,712 cases of murdered or missing Native women were logged into the Department of Justice\u2019s nationwide database.

<\/p>\r\nMurder is the third-leading cause of death among American Indian and Alaska Native women, and rates of violence on reservations can be up to 10 times higher than the national average, the report said, quoting statistics from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

<\/p>\r\nThe institute also took a specific look at Indigenous women living in urban areas \u2013 71 cities \u2013 and found 506 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, although it considers the total low because of the challenges to collecting data. Tucson, at 31, had the fourth-most cases in the country.

<\/p>\r\nAthletes are increasingly widening the lens in which fans and spectators view social injustices, from focusing on movements that directly affect them to bringing a voice to those silenced by violence.

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