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A Native American tribe has issued an emergency declaration on human trafficking and missing women.

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. (AP) — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s

In the past 18 months there have been 5 instances where Indigenous women have gone missing or been killed in an isolated expanse of Pacific coastline.

The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern Californias rugged Lost Coast.

At least 18 Native American women associated with the Yurok reservation are missing says a recent AP report.

Emmilee Risling's disappearance is one of five instances in the past 18 months where Indigenous women have gone missing or been killed in an isolated expanse of Pacific coastline between San Francisco and Oregon.

The crisis has spurred at least one tribe to issue an emergency declaration and brought increased urgency to efforts to build the first database of these types of disappearances in California.

A Native American tribe has issued an emergency declaration on human trafficking and missing women

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. (AP) — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.

The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California's rugged Lost Coast.