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The REDress Project. Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

Monday, October 21, 2019 at 5:00pm

Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room

On October 21st-23rd Native American and Indigeous Students at Cornell (NAISAC) is bringing an installation of the REDress Project by Jaime Black, to Cornell’s campus. The REDress Project is an artistic project that is meant to raise awareness about the incredibly high rates of sexual assault that Indigenous women and girls face across the country.

According to the National Institute of Justice, 97 percent of Native women who have experienced violence had been victimized by non-Native perpetrators. Over 5,700 American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls were reported missing as of 2016, according to the National Crime Information Center, but only 116 of those cases were logged with the Department of Justice. Eighty-four percent of Native women experience violence in their lifetime, according to the National Institute of Justice. A 2008 study found that women in some tribal communities are 10 times more likely to be murdered than the national average.
The REDress Project brings attention to these injustices. It makes use of powerful imagery to draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Native women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence. It does this by positioning the Indigenous female body as a target of colonial violence while reclaiming space for an Indigenous female presence. The installation itself consists of red dresses hung in trees as representations of this reclamation of space. The installation will be in place on Cornell’s Arts and Ag quads from October 21st-23rd.
Jaime Black will be coming to Cornell's campus to give a presentation on her work with the project, as well as the social issue behind it, in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room from 5-7pm on October 21st, 2019. Jaime Black is a multidisciplinary artist of mixed Anishinaabe and Finish decent. Black’s art practice engages in themes of memory, identity, place and resistance and is grounded in an understanding of the body and the land as sources of cultural and spiritual knowledge.
This event is free and open to the public.

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Event Type

Cultural, Exhibit, Lecture

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aip, cashum

Contact E-Mail

crb272@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Colin Benedict

Speaker

Jamie Black

Speaker Affiliation

Multidisciplinary artist of mixed Anishinaabe and Finish decent

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