Today We Raise Awareness
Tomorrow We Will Have Justice
For Every Statistic
There Is a Story Of Fear
Highest Rates of Violence
Native American women face some of the highest rates of violence in the United States. The Department of Justice reports that 84.3% of Native American women have experienced violence in their lifetime, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Between 86-96 percent of the sexual abuse of Native women is committed by non-Indigenous perpetrators who are rarely brought to justice. This violence has its roots in colonial history, starting with Columbus's 1492 expedition.
Colonial Roots of Violence
The crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) is severe. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Native American women are more than twice as likely to be victims of homicide compared to non-Hispanic white women.
Murdered, Missing & Indigenous Women
These statistics underscore the urgent need for action and support for Native American women, highlighting the disparities and challenges we face in various aspects of life. Will you join us in supporting Native-led, women-led efforts that are working to change these statistics?
Recent Work
Not Our Native Daughters Receives Women of Impact Award from Focus on Women Magazine for Their Work on MMIWR
Not Our Native Daughters Participates in Environmental Justice/Climate Change Disrupt Fellowship Retreat with National EJ/CJ Leaders
Decolonizing Data Project in partnership with Urban Indian Health Institute
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month
Human trafficking is a crisis that affects countless lives, but it disproportionately impacts Indigenous people. At Not Our Native Daughters, we have been working for over a decade to educate, train, and prevent human trafficking while enhancing the understanding of a trafficking victim's mentality.
Training Tribal communities was our first mission when we began providing technical assistance and advocacy. Today, we are proud to extend our technical assistance training to all communities, ensuring a broader understanding and a unified effort to combat human trafficking.
These stories are vital to understanding how human trafficking impacts Indigenous people, both in Native American communities and globally. One of the pathways to human trafficking involves traffickers abducting Native youth and adults, often controlling them through the use of controlled substances. This exploitation is deeply tied to issues like addiction and familial abuse, which are directly connected to the Missing, Murdered, and Indigenous Women & Relatives (MMIWR) crisis.
This month, we have scheduled Human Trafficking Webinars you can attend--we invite you to stand with us to shed light on these injustices and honor the strength of those impacted. Join us in calling for systemic change, demanding justice, and ensuring that Indigenous subject-matter-experts are leading the solutions.
Take Action Today:
Request Training: We offer in-person and hybrid technical assistance training to meet your community's needs.
Learn: Explore the connection between human trafficking and the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls crisis.
Support: Help organizations like ours protect and empower Indigenous communities.
Share: Amplify awareness by sharing this message with your network.
Together, we can ensure that our Native daughters, mothers, and relatives are inclusive to the discussion and work of Human Trafficking.
In honor of January being Human Trafficking Awareness Month, we invite you to attend an important webinar, Protecting Native Americans in Arizona - Addressing Human Trafficking Through a Healthcare Lens.
Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Virtual https://azblue.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ruoSGpA7S-WtRDAS7v388Q
We are honored to host Lynette Greybull, a renowned expert and advocate, who will lead this critical training session. This presentation will delve into the overlooked crisis of human trafficking among Indigenous people highlighting its intersection with the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives.
We hope you will join us for this impactful session to learn, reflect, and contribute to the collective effort to protect Native Americans in Arizona.
Our Annual Indigenous Youth Voices
Snowboarding Trip is coming up
Not Our Native Daughters (NOND) was created for the education and awareness of the missing, exploited, murdered Indigenous Women & Children. May we continue to honor all victims, by continuing to stand for them! Fight with us!
NOND on President’s Biden Apology to Native Americans
"I never went into boarding school, but I have suffered the passed-down trauma, the associated trauma that has stemmed from the boarding school era," Lynnette Grey Bull of the Northern Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming told Scripps News. Grey Bull's father, Myron, her aunt and several other family members were among those forcibly taken from their homes during that period.
"My father, my grandparents and my ancestors before them have passed away, they have journeyed on, but during their lifetime they were never able to say, 'I suffered a traumatic event such as the boarding school,'" she added. "It was never acknowledged, not only for themselves, but from the US government."
Dateline NBC special The Secrets of Spirit Lake
NOND founder, Lynnette Grey Bull, featured in Dateline NBC special The Secrets of Spirit Lake focused on the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). Premieres Friday, August 27, 2021 (10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT).
Lynnette Grey Bull | Credit: Dateline NBC