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A Northern California tribe has declared a state of emergency over recent violence and is asking state lawmakers for help to solve a crisis of missing and slain members.

The Yurok Tribe has hired California’s first investigator focused solely on missing and murdered Indigenous people.

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.

Yurok Tribe's MMIP symposium focuses on action, solutions

The disappearance of Emmilee Risling is just one of the 107 cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Northern California. Her case illustrates the historic inequities that keep authorities from not only documenting their cases, but solving them.

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.