Keeping Us Whole: Preventing Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

Written by: Administration for Native Americans
  • Summary

  • For generations, American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian peoples have faced an ongoing crisis of violence, human trafficking, and an epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (also known as MMIP). To bolster prevention efforts to mitigate the MMIP epidemic, the Administration for Native Americans (ANA), a program office within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), collaborated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Interdepartmental Council on Native American Affairs (ICNAA) to develop a podcast series to raise awareness, provide prevention resources and educate listeners on MMIP. This 10-part podcast series includes interviews with a variety of speakers, from tribal leadership to federal partners, advocates, members of grassroots organizations and native athletes that have all joined together to raise awareness of the MMIP epidemic. This series identifies ways we can focus on prevention and the continued work of Keeping Us Whole.
    © 2023 Keeping Us Whole: Preventing Missing and Murdered Indigenous People
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Episodes
  • Episode 4: Surviving, Serving, Speaking; Segment 1: Athletes and Advocacy
    Aug 25 2023

    This episode features Indigenous leaders and athletes using their athletic careers as platforms to serve, speak, and advocate for Indigenous communities on the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP), what MMIP looks like in their own communities, and the biggest challenges impacting violence prevention. The speakers are Native athletes Jordan Marie Daniel (Lakota), Brent Cahwee (Pawnee/Yuchi), Wayne Runnels (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes), and Shauna Long (Standing Rock Sioux).

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Episode 3: Protecting Our LGBTQ2S Relatives; Segment 1: On The Ground
    Jun 15 2023

    This episode focuses on advocates working on the front lines protecting LGBTQ2 people from violence. The speakers discuss the major causes of LGBTQ2 violence, resources that Indigenous communities have available to prevent violence, and strategies that have been most effective in preventing anti-LGBTQ2 violence. The featured guests are Josie Raphaelito, MPH (Navajo), Senior Fellow with Western States Center developing Indigenizing Love: A Toolkit for Native American Youth to Build Inclusion and Lenny Hayes, MA (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), Owner/Operator Tate Topa Consulting, LLC.

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    47 mins
  • Episode 2 Segment 3: On the Ground - Head Start
    Jun 1 2023

    This segment focuses on Head Start’s role in keeping children safe and the comprehensive approach of working with the whole child and their family. It discusses some exemplary practices being implemented by Head start that help to protect Indigenous children to reduce the risk of heading down a path that could make them vulnerable of becoming missing and murdered. The episode also includes discussion on the role that teachers, home visits, and health and mental specialists play in implementing these practices to support families to ensure that Indigenous children are safe in their homes. The speaker explores special interventions specifically to help protect these children, building on family strengths and recognizing culture as a protective factor.​ The featured guest is Patricia White Temple, Education Child Development Specialist at the Nez Perce Head Start Program.

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    35 mins

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