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class="content__text" Holoi Ā Nalo Wāhine ‘Õiwi Missing & Murdered Women & Girls (A brief on the 2022 Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls (MMNHWG) Task Force Report) 🔻Colonization is the piko (center) of violence against Kānaka Maoli Women & Girls. It originates from the history of Kānaka relationships with colonial powers, such as the United States, and is upheld through various colonial mechanisms. 🔻It wasn’t until 2022 that the federal government recognized Kānaka Maoli as Indigenous people impacted by the MMIWG crisis. The first report by the newly formed MMNHWG Task Force found that Kānaka women and girls face highest rates of violence than all other ethnic and racial groups in Hawai’i. 🔻We know that prior to colonization Kānaka practiced gender fluid beliefs, names were passed down matrilineally, and our gender and sexuality was non-monogamous and non-heteronormative. Traditionally, Kānaka honored wāhine, followed mō’ī wāhine (queens), and ali’i wāhine (women chiefs). Kānaka resistance is also rooted in the reviving of ‘ōlelo Hawai’i (speaking our language), aloha ‘āina (loving our land), and continuing to make an ideological shift back to honoring matrilineality from one that is congruent with western patriarchy. 🔻Ho’āla ke ea wāhine maoli. Ho’āla ke ea Hawai’I. (Restore sovereignty to Native Hawaiian women. Restore sovereignty to Hawai’i) ✨Mahalo ✨ MMNHWG Task Force, @nikcristobal , @decolonizefeminism , @kamawaelualani for your work. All images by Jonathan Canlas @jonathancanlas for MMIWhoismissing 🌿Mālama/Support🌿 Hawai'i orgs working with survivors: Susannah Wesley Community Center susannahwesley.org, @kamawaelualani , @hoolanapua 🌹MMIR mutual aid: PayPal: paypal.me/supportmmip Cashapp: $MMIWhoismissing #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #mmip #missingandmurderedindigenouswomen #mmiwghawaii #hawaii #mmir #humantraffickingawareness #mmiwgt2s #militaryterrorism #hawaiiantourism #tourism #toxictourism

February 15, 2023