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Murdered & Missing Indigenous Peoples

Reporting on the MMIP crisis, efforts to address it and the stories of those affected.
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Red Ribbon Skirt Society uplifts families facing MMIP crisis

Founder Lily Mendoza earns Bush Fellowship to ‘find healing in Lakota lifeways’
By Adrianna Adame and 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
By Alicia Hegland-Thorpe and Alicia Hegland-Thorpe
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A grandmother seeks justice for Native people
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Powwow spotlights missing and murdered Indigenous crisis
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ShineThe Shine series will explore limitations and solutions to press freedom and government transparency in Indian Country.
Thunder Valley takes steps toward MMIP search and rescue
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Indigenous missing person cases get researchers' attention
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March for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives draws hundreds
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Missing woman's family: If she had white privilege, we would have answers
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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
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Survivors and families share stories at gathering for missing and murdered Indigenous people
Natasha Brennan, McClatchy Northwest
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Lawmakers launch South Dakota liaison office for missing, murdered Indigenous persons
COURTESY / Native Women’s Wilderness
‘This is genocide’: The final report of Canada’s inquiry into MMIWG
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Lone Bear family still searching for answers in Olivia's death
Missing Indigenous women Olivia Lone Bear looking at camera and smiling in a selfie