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Murdered & Missing Indigenous People
Coverage of the MMIP crisis and efforts to address it.
Red Ribbon Skirt Society uplifts families facing MMIP crisis
Founder Lily Mendoza earns Bush Fellowship to ‘find healing in Lakota lifeways’
Adrianna Adame
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Jurisdictional Maze: North Dakota families frustrated with lack of communication in MMIP Cases
Families seek clarity amidst bureaucratic hurdles in search for missing loved ones
Alicia Hegland-Thorpe
A grandmother seeks justice for Native people
US officials share frustration over the unsolved cases, which critics say reflects racial injustice, particularly when compared to the media frenzy that erupts when a White woman goes missing
Matthew Brown / AP via ICT
Powwow spotlights missing and murdered Indigenous crisis
Annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Pow Wow in Iowa spreads awareness through song, dance and storytelling
Kevin Abourezk / ICT
Thunder Valley takes steps toward MMIP search and rescue
In an effort to combat the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis, Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation held a search and rescue training on Pine Ridge as part of its new search and rescue initiative
Amelia Schafer / ICT and Rapid City Journal
Indigenous missing person cases get researchers’ attention
Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Omaha will be using a model first developed for that state to address data collection gaps across multiple law enforcement jurisdictions
Susan Montoya Bryan / Associated Press
March for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives draws hundreds
Grace Deng / Minnesota Reformer via ICT
Missing woman’s family: If she had white privilege, we would have answers
Kayla Dunn / Everett Herald
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South Dakota hires missing Indigenous, trafficking positions
The hirings come almost two years after the Legislature created the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons coordinator in the attorney general's office
Associated Press / ICT via Associated Press
Survivors and families share stories at gathering for missing and murdered Indigenous people
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