A co-sponsored event in honor of May 5, Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, join the Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity and Collins Library for a documentary film screening of Sisters Rising. Please RSVP due to seating here. 
 

Sisters Rising is a powerful feature documentary about six Native American women reclaiming personal & tribal sovereignty.

Native American women are 2.5 times more likely to experience sexual assault than all other American women. 1 in 3 Native women report having been raped during her lifetime and 86% of the offenses are committed by non-Native men. These perpetrators exploit gaps in tribal jurisdictional authority and target Native women as ‘safe victims’. SISTERS RISING follows six women who refuse to let this pattern of violence continue in the shadows: a tribal cop in the midst of the North Dakota oil boom, an attorney fighting to overturn restrictions on tribal sovereignty, an Indigenous women’s self-defense instructor, grassroots advocates working to influence legislative change, and the author of the first anti-sex trafficking code to be introduced to a reservation’s tribal court. Their stories shine an unflinching light on righting injustice on both an individual and systemic level.

To learn more, head to: https://visionmakermedia.org/sisters-rising