Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, seen here outside the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi, on Feb. 15, announced last week the appointment of a new federal commission to help improve how the federal government addresses the decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Nearly 40 law enforcement officials, tribal leaders, social workers and survivors of violence have been named to a federal commission tasked with helping improve how the federal government addresses a decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans and Alaska Natives, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced last Thursday.
The committee's creation means that for the first time, the voices guiding the Interior and Justice departments in the effort will include people most affected by the epidemic, said Haaland, the first Native American to lead a cabin...
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