“Reservation Dogs” star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai made a powerful statement on the red carpet at Sunday’s Emmy Awards ceremony, pairing a black tuxedo with what looked like a bloody red handprint smeared across his mouth.
The 22-year-old Canadian, who is of Oji-Cree First Nations descent, was the first Indigenous North American to be nominated in the ceremony’s leading actor category, according to Variety. A red hand over the mouth has become the symbol of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement, which raises awareness of the Indigenous women missing and murdered across North America whose voices are not heard, according to the organization Native Hope.
In 2016, the government launched a national inquiry into missing and murdered women and girls. The inquiry found that the situation amounts to a “race-based genocide” of Indigenous peoples that especially targets women. Amnesty International has also said the number of those murdered or missing to amounts to a “genocidal crisis.
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