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Lawman fears young woman will fall into a missing-persons file, a decades-long problem in Indigenous communities that traces back to white settler colonialism, a broken foster care system and the forced assimilation of Native children in the state’s punitive boarding schools.

In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered. But one case hit particularly close to home for Greg O’Rourke, the police chief for the Yurok Tribe along California’s North Coast.

A Northern California tribal police chief is challenged personally and professionally with how to solve a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

A Northern California tribal police chief is challenged personally and professionally with how to solve a crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

Rose Joy Crutchfield Sundberg peacefully returned to her Creator on February 25, 2023 at the age of 90. She was surrounded by family that loves her deeply. She was born on March 25, 1932 at Yah-ter he-wan on the Klamath River, the third of five children, to Lila and Edward Crutchfield. She grew

Rose Joy Crutchfield Sundberg peacefully returned to her Creator on Feb. 25, 2023, at the age of 90. She was surrounded by family that loves...

Yurok Tribe's MMIP symposium focuses on action, solutions

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif.—The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American ...

Emmilee was last seen walking across a bridge marked End of Road, in a far corner of the Yurok Reservation. No one has seen her since. Her disappearance is one of five examples in the past 18 months where Native American women have gone missing or been killed in the area.

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.