Rickey Medlocke has released a solo single to raise awareness about the drama of missing and murdered Native American women (MMIW). A portion of the money raised from sales of “Never Run Out Of Road” will be donated to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center (NIWRC), which campaigns to end the trafficking of Native American women.
“I want to give back to my native community through Never Run Out Of Road,” says Medlocke, “and I want to educate others on the MMIW crisis and empower people to get involved.”
According to the NIWRC, Native Americans are one of the demographic groups most affected by both sex trafficking and labor trafficking, with 40% of women involved in sex trafficking overall identifying as Native American.
Human Trafficking Search, which works to end human trafficking globally, reveals that Native women are murdered more than ten times the national average, while non-Indians commit 88% of violent crimes against Indigenous women. “Native women have been fetishised, bought, sold, and traded since the initial European colonization of the American continent,” say the organization.
