Advocates and public health researchers say a lack of data as well as shortfalls in law enforcement’s handling and prosecution of such cases have hindered efforts to address the issue. The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force is meant to help fill those gaps.
Members of the panel will spend the next 15 months examining the causes behind the violence and then make recommendations to help victims and their families heal. The commission’s mandate includes a review of data collection and the current policies at institutions ranging from child welfare services to coroners’ offices.
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News Profile of GTB/Enviro Groups’ Appeal against Nestlé
Here is “Legal gears on Nestle water cases grind slowly in Michigan” from MLive.
ICT: “Boy Scouts ‘have been one of the worst culprits’ of cultural appropriation”
Here.
Interview of Black Belt Eagle Scout on NPR
Musician Katherine Paul, who grew up on the Swinomish reservation, identifies as queer and indigenous. An interview of her was aired on NPR yesterday.
News Profile of Push to Pay Reparations to Duwamish Tribe
Here is “Rent Is Recognition and Restitution for Seattle’s Native Inhabitants.”
HCN: “Far-right extremists appropriate Indigenous struggles for violent ends”
Here.
Lummi Nation Ceremony to Honor Endangered Southern Resident Orcas
Here.
Profile of Ninth Circuit Judge Mary Murphy Schroeder
Amazing story — “Mary Murphy Schroeder: She Broke Barriers From the Start.”
Deb Haaland and Elizabeth Warren Legislative Proposal
Here.
ACLU to hire Native Justice Organizer in S.D.
Here.
Turtle Talk 
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