MMIP Red Dress Installation Vandalized in Alaska

A Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) installation in Alaska was vandalized late last month, a local radio station reported.

The installation was created by the Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC). It featured 60 red dresses hung from trees around Ward Lake - located in Southeast Alaska on Revillagigedo Island - each representing an Indigenous person from Ketchikan, Saxman, Prince of Wales Island, and Metlakatla who is missing or has been murdered.

The garments were installed on May 15 to commemorate MMIP Awareness Month under a permit KIC held from the U.S. Forestry Service. By the time the installation was scheduled to come down on May 31, 48 of the dresses were missing. In recent days, photos have been surfacing on social media showing some of the dresses crumpled near the lakeside trail, half buried or discarded in piles near drain pipes.

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