'Native girls live with a little voice in their heads. One that asks, 'If I am taken, will anyone look for me?'' Ruth_HHopkins writes
A public art installation commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Burlington, Canada, October 2020. Photo: Stacey Newman/Shutterstock As someone who has lived through the terror, frustration, and catastrophic loss of having friends and relatives vanish or be murdered, I wouldn’t wish that kind of suffering and grief on anyone — regardless of their race, nationality, class, or background.
Native women face murder rates that are more than ten times the national average, and four out of five have experienced violence in their lifetimes. In 2016, the National Crime Information Center, a computerized index of criminal-justice information through the FBI, said that there were 5,712 reports of missing Native women and girls, but the US Department of Justice’s federal missing-persons database only logged 116 cases.
Ashley’s story exemplifies several factors that contribute to the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States. Thanks to Congress, tribal lands are a jurisdictional mess. Whether state, tribal, or federal law enforcement is in charge of an investigation can literally vary by mere feet. Communication among these multiple agencies, operating within different systems, is disconnected and often nonexistent.
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