Perspective: Red dresses flutter, empty, on the National Mall and this is why they should haunt us
By Theresa Vargas Theresa Vargas Local columnist who previously wrote for the local enterprise team about poverty, race and people with disabilities. Email Bio Follow Columnist March 16 at 7:30 AM One resembles a prom dress, embellished with lace and flowers.Another features an open back and looks as if it could have been hung up after a date.Maybe that’s why, fluttering outside in the wind, hanging empty, they feel so haunting.
They call for us to finally start paying attention to indigenous women and listen to what they’ve long been trying to tell us: Too many of them have disappeared.Thousands of indigenous women have been lost through death or disappearance across the country in recent years, but you probably haven’t heard of many or any of them. Try to think of their names. It’s not a simple exercise. None come as easily as Elizabeth Smart, Laci Peterson or more recently, Mollie Tibbetts.
Deer has worked for more than two decades on the issue of violence against Native American women, and on Thursday, she was one of four women to appear before the House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States. The women were witnesses in an oversight hearing titled “Unmasking the Hidden Crisis of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women : Exploring Solutions to End the Cycle of Violence.
At the hearing, Chair Ruben Gallego called the issue “a deeply troubling, disturbing situation affecting Indian Country nationwide” and said “we must take action.” The hearing wasn’t long enough to address all the reasons this group is more vulnerable than other women, but it touched on many. Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, who was eight months pregnant in 2017 when she was killed by a neighbor who removed her baby. The 22-year-old’s body was later found by a kayaker in a North Dakota river.
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