State Sen. Mike McGuire announced today that Judge Abby Abinanti — a Yurok tribal member dedicated to addressing the Murdered and Missing Indigenous People crisis and the first Native to become a member of the California Bar Association — has been named the 2023 North Coast Woman of the Year. Abinanti has served as the […]
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“Pervasive Failure to Investigate:” Report Finds Lack of Scrutiny in Cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
For generations, order and cleanliness had been Christina Lastra’s family’s way of fighting off poverty. But the day in July 1991 when her mother’s mysterious death was ruled an accident marked the end of the orderly life Lastra had been leading in Humboldt County. “We didn’t get peace. No one ever even thought of looking […]