In 2016, over 5,700 Indigenous women and girls were reported missing.
The U.S. Department of Justice recorded just 116 of those cases. That’s
not a data error. That’s a decision repeated year after year by
institutions that were never built to protect Native lives.
The epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women is not a mystery. It is a test of whether this country can confront the systems it built to disappear people.
The federal government has delayed.
Law enforcement has failed.
The media has ignored.
And most of America has looked away.
But Native communities never have.
They’ve searched when no one else would.
They’ve named their daughters when others erased them.
They’ve demanded justice when the system delivered only silence.
