On July 5, 2013, Hanna Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, was reported missing by her family in Lame Deer, Montana. Hanna’s body was not found for five days. She had been raped and murdered. On some reservations, Native women are murdered at a rate more than 10 times the national average. Too often, indigenous women go missing and nothing is done.To draw attention to this issue, the U.S. Senate has adopted Senate Resolution 60, which designates May 5 as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls. This is an important step in building national awareness of these terrible crimes and gathering support for the necessary criminal justice reforms to restore safety to Native women.
TAKE ACTION
- Get informed and find out what must be done to better protect our Native women. Sign up for a free webinar "Honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women" on Friday, May 5, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. (EST).
- Read more about the grassroots movement to win support for Senate Resolution 60.
- May 5th as a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls | NIWRC
