The Ties that Bind Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

artist: Nicholas Galanin

What is it that can bring together a diverse crowd that includes:

• judges from the Navajo bench and the New Mexico Court of Appeals;
• state senators from Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota, North Carolina and Ohio
• provincial representatives in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Vancouver
• lawyers from West Virginia, Kansas, Wisconsin and South Dakota
• a Museum of the American Indian Board of Trustees member
• a nationally recognized Navajo author and educator
• 37 elected Native American and First Nations officials, including governors and chiefs
• journalists
• CEOs & upper management of international oil, entertainment, and manufacturing companies
• heroin wholesalers
• an English jeweler
• a few Ambassadors
• rock musicians, a boxer and a flautist
• some nuns
• some teachers
• AIM members across the country
• police sprinkled from small towns like Odessa, TX and big cities across the continent
• a favorite fashion model of Georgio Armani
• a custom machining shop in Illinois
• a sand and gravel…