PEMBROKE, N.C. — For Aminah Ghaffar, Indigenous advocacy is a crucial part of her identity.
“I have always been passionate about serving Indigenous people, making sure that Indigenous people are brought into spaces they’re not normally talked about,” she says.
When she was in college, Ghaffar was shocked to learn about the murders of three separate Indigenous women on her own street. Realizing that the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women was affecting not just her own community, but even more specifically, her own neighbors, Ghaffar felt called to action.
On November 21st, Ghaffar gave a speech at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke for their Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women March and Ceremony.
“Each and every one of us here today has the ability to attack this issue head on, to have a direct impact and the way that you can do that is just as simple as looking …