Partner Resources
This resource is developed with love and recognition that our collective work towards justice, healing, and safety includes our care for ourselves and each other. This short guide is meant to support understanding how our bodies respond to stress in order to build compassion and alliance with how naturally protective and incredible we are. There is nothing disordered about our responses to violence, systemic injustices, or the threat to our lives and the lives of our relatives. It is my hope that the offerings within this guide can support you to listen, understand, and connect with your natural stress responses and give you simple tools to access different responses when you wish to. Ideyił uxdiniyh - Take care of yourselves.
Dogidinh (Thank you), Josie Heyano, LCSW Granddaughter of Mary and Paul Starr, Alfred Miller, Pete & Rosa Heyano Daughter of David and Nina Heyano Tanana & Ekuk, Alaska Signify Consulting, Mental Health and Community Care.
It is viewable in our resource working drive here.
The Data for Indigenous Justice Team has gathered the following Resources to Support learning, advocacy, & action.
We invite you to use these materials with care.
In 2023, the Not One More report by The Not Invisible Act Commission was published and posted to the Department of Justice website. But after Donald Trump’s 2024 re-election, the link to the report was erased. It is viewable in our resource working drive here.
This Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) Resource page is meant to provide current information on this national crisis, answer questions, and provide resources on what you and your community can do to help or how to become involved in the national movement to stop the abduction and murder of our Indigenous sisters, mothers, and daughters.
Illuminative: “Filmmakers, creatives, studios, and entertainment industry professionals have a responsibility when crafting stories about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) crisis. By creating content with care, we can bring attention to this emergency, build empathy for MMIP victims, survivors, and families, and motivate audiences toward action.” With leading Native creatives and subject matter experts, IllumiNative has created a guide for addressing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) crisis in media.
Download the guide here: https://loom.ly/g3bCQ7g
We Are Calling To You
This baseline report was created by Data for Indigenous Justice (DIJ) and is a reclamation of our stories that we have always had and maintained. This ancestral knowledge of data that we put forward is for our families and communities to self-determine our pathways to justice. While data and reports can be used in innumerable ways, our intention here is, first and foremost, to ensure the safety of our people.
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center MMIW State Legislative Tracker
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) State Legislative Tracker is a navigational database designed to help you easily search legislation relating to MMIW within your state and across the country. The Tracker is a continuation of the MMIW Monthly Legislative Summary, previously released as part of our monthly legislative update. Now in the form of a navigational database, we hope that this tool will be useful for state and local legislators, advocates, grassroots leaders, community members, and allies. Currently, there are over 30 pieces of legislation moving through the process or already signed into law within this legislative session.
MMIWG2S Alaska Working Group Resource List
These resources have been recommended by the MMIWG2S Alaska Working Group. Please utilize and share with care.
>> Association of Village Council Presidents MMIP Service Delivery Guide
>> MMIWG2S Alaska Resource Toolkit
>> Alaska MMIWG2S Anchorage Public Safety Advisory
Indigenous Evaluation Framework
Building the Sacred: An Indigenous Evaluation Framework for Programs Serving Native Survivors of Violence illustrates four places from which Indigenous evaluation is already taking place in violence prevention, response, and healing programs that have not yet been formally recognized in a culturally rooted evaluation framework. The four places are walking with relatives, planting seeds of strength, healing, and adapting in community, and protecting space for grief and healing.
LGBTQ+ Data Forum Report
The forum's purpose was to listen to LGBTQ2SIA+ community members, service providers, data system managers, and advocates to start a conversation about how we can better serve LGBTQ2SIA+ people in data systems, not only within DIJ but across organizations, in programming, and in advocacy. In 2021, more than 180 community and allied organizations wrote a letter to health leaders with a clear charge, “End the invisibility, collect LGBTQI+ health data now!”
MMIWG2S Alaska Working Group
Alaska Native Women's Resource Center, Alaska Native Heritage Center, Alaska Native Justice Center, Native Movement, Data for Indigenous Justice, and Prevention Now understand the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit persons is a complex issue, but action is needed now. We address this from a healing perspective with our community. We collectively demand justice on all fronts at the state, local, and federal levels.
Victims for Justice
Victims for Justice is an independent non-profit working to ensure Alaskans affected by violent crime get the support they need and deserve. We help victims cope with trauma and grief, and ensure victim rights are observed within the judicial system. Victims can heal by becoming champions for their rights, advocating change in the criminal justice system. Their resource center can be found here.