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Wednesday, May 5 is the day set aside to remember the Indigenous women who are missing or have been murdered. According to data gathered by Data for Indigenous Justice, Native women end up missing and murdered in disproportionate numbers. Kelsey Ciugun Wallace, with Native People’s Action, says that this is the first baseline report on the number of murdered and missing indigenous women, and can be found here.
“There is a total of 229 murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Alaska; 149 are in missing status, and 80 of those are murdered,” said Wallace.
Those numbers were as of a few months ago, and Wallace adds that those numbers have since changed since the data was collected. Wallace said that the problem is that in the past when family members brought up concerns about missing Indigenous women and girls in their family, they were met by silence.
Topic:Update on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women
Join us on February 25, 2021 for a Native Issues Forum to hear a report on what is being done on the federal, state and tribal levels to address the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women crisis in Alaska.
Guest speakers include Representative Tiffany Zulkosky, Data for Indigenous Justice Co-Founders Abigail Echo-Hawk and Charlene Apok, District of Alaska Missing & Murdered Indigenous Persons Coordinator Ingrid Cumberlidge, and U.S Attorney for the District of Alaska Bryan Schroder.
The forum will be held virtually on Tlingit & Haida’s Facebook page over the lunch hour and will include a live Q&A period. If you are unable to join us on Facebook, all recordings of the forums will be posted on Tlingit & Haida’s YouTube channel.
Effort to reshape response to reports of missing and murdered Indigenous people underway in 3 Alaska communities
Print article Three rural Alaska communities are involved in a new pilot program intended to create culturally sensitive protocols on how different government and law enforcement agencies respond to reports of missing or murdered Indigenous people. The project was launched in recent weeks with Curyung Tribal Council of Dillingham, the Native Village of Unalakleet and Koyukuk Native Village, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska said in an online statement. The project comes after the launch of the federal Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, and Alaska is one of several states to start up pilot programs related to the issue.