The U.S. Department of the Interior is creating a new unit to lead and help coordinate investigations into the ongoing crisis of murdered and missing American Indian and Alaska Native people.
Interior Secretary Debra Haaland, the first Indigenous person to lead the agency, announced last week the formation of the Missing & Murdered Unit within the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services.
“Violence against Indigenous peoples is a crisis that has been underfunded for decades,” Haaland said in a statement. “Far too often, murders and missing persons cases in Indian country go unsolved and unaddressed, leaving families and communities devastated.”
Haaland launches unit to investigate missing and murdered Native Americans
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New unit launched in U S Dept of Interior to investigate cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people
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