These Haunting Red Dresses Memorialize Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women

[Judi Lynn]

8. Unbelievably brutal considering how little is done by the gov't to find the killers.

It's important to remember that South Dakota's Congressman Bill Janklow was elected, and served in Congress long AFTER it was well known he had raped a young indigenous woman in South Dakota and was not checked by the law there. Of course he was a Republican.

There was also a very worthwhile article posted at D.U. in February by niyad, here:
"Violence Against Native American Women"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016226522

Mia, that imagery is stark, and so immediate, in a way no other medium could touch people. It really personalizes what people might otherwise just see as words on a screen, or in a newspaper.

Thank you, very much.