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Facebook is the ‘moccasin telegraph’ for missing and murdered Indigenous people
While missing white girls and women receive lots of media attention, missing Indigenous women have long been invisible to the public.
Families used the platform to bring awareness and visibility to their missing loved ones and then moved to in-person networking, community activism and advocacy using Facebook as a tool for organizing memorial events and marches.” A social media post by Native Americans United, titled “Truthful Art,” created by @soni_artist, explains with an image why tribal communities have turned to Facebook: Cable TV Host Nancy Grace created a national following for nightly updates on the disappearance of Polly Klass, Elizabeth Smart, Natalee Hollway and Caylee Anthony — all young, all white.
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