Searching for missing indigenous women, tribes and lawmakers seek to raise awareness
Hundreds of Native American tribal members held a vigil to commemorate the “Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People.”
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Hundreds of Native American tribal members held a vigil to commemorate the “Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People.”
The state of California is bringing more attention to the overwhelming crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people this week by hosting multiple hearings and a first-ever candlelight vigil.
The Yurok Tribe has hired California’s first investigator focused solely on missing and murdered Indigenous people.
The Yurok Tribe recently hired an accomplished law enforcement professional to investigate existing and new cases involving Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in California’s North Coast region.
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.