Ingrid Washinawatok El-Issa was killed while continuing her lifelong advocacy work to support Native people. Two decades after her death, her husband and son stood wrapped in blankets, tears in their eyes, next to her name immortalized on a mural in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, on Lenapehoking land.
The mural is one of few places that visualizes the crisis of missing and slain Indigenous women, girls, Two Spirit and transgender people.
The federal government does not maintain a comprehensiv...