Issue 006 · June 14, 2026
On May 9, the Oneida Nation's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Walk stepped off from the Recreation Center and ended at the Oneida Nation Elementary School, where community members Sarah Wunderlich, Sue Doxtator, and others spoke about the losses their families carry. Kalihwisaks covered the walk with names and voices, not statistics. As Patty noted when she saved a similar story last year, every Wisconsin nation and urban Native community has embraced MMIW advocacy in the past decade, and the walk format has become one of the most powerful expressions of that collective grief and resolve.
Issue 006 · June 14, 2026
On May 5, members of the Forest County Potawatomi and Sokaogon Chippewa communities joined for their MMIP Day observance, beginning with educational displays and ceremony at the Potawatomi Community Center before walking together to Mole Lake. The joint walk between two neighboring Wisconsin nations is exactly the kind of inter-community solidarity that rarely makes mainstream news but matters deeply to understanding how MMIW advocacy has taken root across the state. The Potawatomi Traveling Times documented it with the community detail it deserved.
Issue 005 · June 7, 2026
The Oneida Nation's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Walk stepped off from the Oneida Recreation Center on May 9, ending at the Oneida Nation Elementary School where community members Sarah Wunderlich, Sue Doxtator, and others spoke. The walk is one of dozens happening across Wisconsin's twelve nations this spring, a reminder that MMIW advocacy has moved from national policy conversation into the fabric of tribal community life. Patty, you noted last month that all the nations and urban Natives have embraced MMIW in the last ten years; this is what that looks like on the ground.
Issue 005 · June 7, 2026
On May 5, the Forest County Potawatomi and the Sokaogon Chippewa community at Mole Lake joined forces for an MMIP Awareness Ride and Walk, beginning at the Potawatomi Community Center with educational displays and ceremony before moving together through the landscape. The partnership between these two neighboring nations, one Bodewadmi and one Ojibwe, is itself a story: shared geography and shared grief producing shared action. The walk is the kind of community-built response that doesn't wait for federal task forces.
Issue 004 · May 31, 2026
ICT's coverage of the annual MMIW rally near the Menominee Nation puts a specific family's grief and advocacy at the center, exactly as it should be. Linda Dickenson's murder is one case among many the movement tracks, and her relatives' presence at the rally is the kind of ordinary-people-doing-extraordinary-things story Patty's journalism ethics demand. The piece is careful not to reduce advocacy to statistics.
Issue 004 · May 31, 2026
The Forest County Potawatomi and Sokaogon Chippewa communities marked May 5 together, beginning at the Potawatomi Community Center with educational displays and a shared walk. The joint observance between two neighboring Wisconsin nations reflects the pan-tribal momentum around MMIW that Patty noted when Bad River established its own task force. The Potawatomi Traveling Times carries the community voice here.
Issue 004 · May 31, 2026
The Oneida Nation's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Walk on May 9 drew community members from the Recreation Center to the Elementary School, where Sarah Wunderlich and Sue Doxtator spoke. Kalihwisaks names the speakers and the route — the specificity matters. The walk is now a recurring community ritual, not a one-time event.
Issue 003 · May 24, 2026
ICT profiled a Menominee Nation family whose advocacy for missing and murdered Indigenous women centers on the murder of Linda Dickenson, one case among many that the movement works to prevent from being forgotten. The piece foregrounds the family's voice, not an agency spokesperson, and traces how grief becomes sustained public action. Patty, you noted in an earlier issue that MMIW advocacy has become central to virtually every Wisconsin nation over the past decade; this is that story at the human scale.
Issue 002 · May 17, 2026
The Bad River Tribal Governing Board voted to create a formal Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives task force and designated May 5 as the Band's Tribal Day of Awareness, joining a growing number of Wisconsin nations formalizing their MMIW commitments in tribal law. The Wisconsin Examiner covered the vote, which took place in the same week as the national MMIP day of awareness. This is the kind of governance action that belongs in the Bad River section of the Ojibwe chapter.
Issue 002 · May 17, 2026
ICT's coverage of the annual MMIW rally centers the family of Linda Dickenson, a Menominee woman whose murder remains a defining case for Wisconsin's MMIW movement, and the advocates who gather each year to demand accountability. The piece foregrounds ordinary voices, exactly the register Patty's journalism ethics call for: not the task force announcement, but the family still waiting for answers. This is the human counterpart to the Bad River task force story in the Wisconsin section.
Issue 001 · May 10, 2026
The Bad River Band's governing board voted this week to formally recognize May 5 as a Tribal Day of Awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives, and authorized the creation of a new tribal task force to address the crisis. The Wisconsin Examiner covered the vote, though the story would benefit from a direct quote from a Bad River council member or advocate. This is a meaningful institutional step: a task force with a home community mandate carries more weight than a state-level working group, and it grounds the national MMIW conversation in the specific geography and kinship networks of Mashkiiziibii.
Issue 001 · May 10, 2026
ICT reports on the third annual Walk for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People hosted by the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage, drawing relatives, friends, and supporters to raise visibility for Alaska Native victims. The Alaska MMIW crisis has its own distinct geography and jurisdictional tangle, with vast rural distances and limited law enforcement presence compounding the federal gaps that affect tribal communities everywhere. The walk is a community act of witness, and ICT names it as such.
Background
· 2026
· Wisconsin Examiner
On April 22, 2026, the Bad River Tribal Council voted to formalize May 5 as a Bad River Tribal Day of Awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives and authorized the creation of a tribal task force. Gina Jensen, who represents the tribe's police commission, noted that the murder rate for Indigenous women is ten times the national average. More than fifty community members walked the annual MMIW/R route inside the reservation that week, the route marked by red dresses on garden stakes.