Miss Navajo Nation Is On a Mission

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The epidemic of violence against Native women has long plagued the community with little to no federal attention.

. It’s also personal for her. “Learning about the missing and murdered Indigenous women, in general, as an epidemic, throughout Indian country is one thing,” she says, “but learning about how it affects your own people is different.” It’s an issue, she adds, that began with the history of America, which is why it’s all the more important to have this coordinated effort with the federal government. “This problem is much older than I am,” she says.

“If we have information that is only being distributed through a weekly newspaper, or a weekly conversation on a news radio station, then we’re only having that conversation one time a day,” Parrish continues. “I really challenge our leaders to make this a daily conversation and to also make it visible to our youth. And that can only happen through social media.”

As the task force continues its work to find their missing and murdered, Parrish has also pushed to have mental health care services more readily available to relatives. “People might be feeling unsupported [or] alone about their missing person,” she says, and “I don’t know if they need mental health support. So we want to make sure that’s available to them.”

 

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