Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report
Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report
(cross-posted from cbabe's OP in GD)
Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-missing-murdered-indigenous-peoples-report-removed
A slap in the face’: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report.
The Not Invisible Act Commission’s resource was historic for Native Americans. It’s now been scrubbed from federal websites
Adria R Walker
Thu 20 Mar 2025 13.27 EDT
One such page is the Not Invisible Act Commission’s final report from November 2023. The Not Invisible Act Commission was mandated by bipartisan legislation and signed into law by Trump himself. The report was a collaboration between the justice department and the interior department to address, document and respond to the missing and murdered Indigenous peoples (MMIP) crisis, in which Indigenous communities experience disproportionate rates of abduction, assault and murder. Accurate statistics about the MMIP and missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) crises can be limited and dated, but, as of 2019, homicide was the third most common cause of death for Indigenous girls aged 15 to 19 and Indigenous women aged 20 to 24.
The Not Invisible Act Commission’s final report was a culmination of seven in-person field hearings held across the country and a one-day virtual national hearing. Nearly 600 people attended the hearings and 260 people, including survivors, victims, family members, advocates and law enforcement gave testimony to the commission. As a result of those hearings, the commission issued its final report of recommendations to address the crisis.
Having a resource like the Not Invisible Act Commission’s final report provided Indigenous people and governments, as well as federal, state and local branches of the US government, with data and suggestions on how to reduce the crises. The act itself was historic, not only because it shed light on an issue that Indian Country has faced for decades, but also because it was the first bill that was introduced and passed by four Indigenous US congressional members.
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