With the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons approaching Thursday, a Jeans for Justice event was held Friday in Hoopa, kicking off a week of events on the North Coast. Awareness of a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples epidemic has spread since 2020, when the Sovereign Bodies Institute released a groundbreaking […]
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Yurok Tribes Declares Emergency In Response to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
The Yurok Tribal Council has issued an emergency declaration in response to a large number of local missing persons and attempted human trafficking incidents involving Native women. The declaration also aims to raise awareness of the disproportionate number of the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis. “Today, we are asking our local, state and federal partners […]