Indianz.Com > News > Native America Calling: Native MMIW advocates use their skills to seek answers
All Episodes on Spotify | More Options
Native America Calling: Native MMIW advocates use their skills to seek answers
Monday, December 9, 2024
nativeamericacalling.com   180099native   nativeamericacalling

Native MMIW advocates use their skills to seek answers
The disproportionately high number of unsolved cases for missing and murdered Indigenous women inspired Haley Omeasoo (Hopi/Blackfeet) to launch a research lab on the Blackfeet Nation’s Montana reservation.

Ohkomi Forensics offers tribal police and other law enforcement agencies scientific data in an attempt to make connections with current and past investigations.

The research lab one of the ways Native advocates all over the country are working to fill gaps to improve the troubling statistics for Native crime victims.

NBC News: Native American scientists launch forensics team to investigate Indigenous cold cases

native america calling
Native America Calling
Listen to Native America Calling every weekday at 1pm Eastern.
Alternate Links: Native Voice One | NAC
Search
Filed Under
Tags
More Headlines
‘Our hearts are full’: Native Organizers Alliance welcomes commutation of sentence for Leonard Peltier
‘I am beyond words’: Deb Haaland welcomes clemency for Leonard Peltier
NDN Collective welcomes grant of executive clemency for Leonard Peltier
Executive Grant of Clemency: Leonard Peltier
VIDEO: Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren #DC #HonorTheTreaties
VIDEO: Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley #DC #HonorTheTreaties
‘A lot of big plans’: Tribal leaders ready to get to work with new presidential administration
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation empowers culture of entrepreneurship
Native America Calling: Accounting for those who never made it home from Indian Boarding Schools
U.S. Supreme Court upholds federal law banning TikTok
Native America Calling: Native in the Spotlight with Ted Nolan
‘State and tribal relations in North Dakota have not always been great’
Native America Calling: Preparing for Donald Trump’s ‘first day in office’
Cronkite News: ‘We’re never going to go away’
Tribal justice office gains new leader amid big changes in Washington
More Headlines