- Indigenous trans women and TwoSpirits are significantly lower.
(International) The rates of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits (MMIWG2) in both “Canada” and the “U.S.” are astronomical. According to Statistics Canada, between 2015 to 2020, the average homicide rate for Indigenous people was six times higher than the homicide rate for non-Indigenous people. The U.S. Department of Justice found that on some lands, American Indian and Alaska Native women are murdered at ten times the national homicide rate. Until recently, much of this crisis centered heavily around reserve and reservation communities, but urban Indigenous communities in “Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada” and “Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.” are making their voices heard. Read more
