Mapping Out Missing and Murdered Native Women: ’I Would Want My Story to Have Meaning’ - Rewire.News
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The cartographer behind a new atlas project hopes it will provide an indigenous perspective of the milieu surrounding and contributing to the high rates of missing and murdered Native women and girls.
There is no reliable national collection point or method to gathering comprehensive statistics on the number of missing and murdered Native women in the United States.
Inspired by the Cheyenne concept of “netaevananova’htsemane” (which translates to, “let us recognize ourselves again”), Annita Lucchesi is working to create a mapping tool that recognizes and honors the geographies in which missing and murdered Native women live and die.
“Hand-drawn maps have great potential to reflect our ways of knowing,” said Lucchesi in an interview with Rewire.News.
A recent example of this is a map Lucchesi created in preparation for the 2018 Women’s Marches. The map (shared below) features an image of a ribbon skirt, often worn as sign of respect and honor among Native women, with names of missing and murdered indigenous women incorporated into the design of skirt.
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