Inadequate Data on Missing, Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
by Kayla Sawyer. This article originally appeared on the NICOA blog.
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There is a serious lack of meaningful government data documenting rates of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. A recent study by the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI) revealed that only 116 of the 5,712 cases of murdered or missing Native women were logged into the Department of Justice’s nationwide database.
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