Missing but not forgotten
Today is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Mary Kathryn Nagle joins us to talk about the continuing crisis. Plus, friend of the show Holly Cook Macarro is back to share a political rundown of Washington, D.C
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May 5, 2021
Native women face murder rates more than 10 times the national average. More than 5,000 American Indian and Alaska Native women are missing. And 55 percent of Native women have experienced domestic violence, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Joining us today is Cherokee citizen Mary Kathryn Nagle. She’s a partner at Pipestem and Nagle. She represents the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and works on issues facing women. Mary Kathryn has written and produced several plays relating to Indians and the law.
Here is what we know.
First the good news:
The good news for tribes and Native American children’s advocates and adoptive families is that the court upheld important aspects of the act. The en banc court holds that Congress was authorized to enact the Indian Child Welfare Act and concludes that this authority derives from Congress’s enduring obligations to Indian tribes and its plenary authority to discharge this duty. In other words, the act is constitutional.
In this 2019 photo, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. speaks during a news conference in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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