{"id":11105,"date":"2021-05-04T16:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=11105"},"modified":"2021-05-04T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T20:19:43","slug":"missing-and-murdered-american-indian-and-alaska-native-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/05\/04\/missing-and-murdered-american-indian-and-alaska-native-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing and Murdered American Indian and Alaska Native Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecDebHaaland\">Secretary of the Interior Deb\u202fHaaland<\/a> holds a press call on May 4, 2021, to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/indianz\/sets\/missing-and-murdered-american-indian-and-alaska-native-awareness-day\">Biden administration\u2019s efforts to combat violence against Indigenous peoples<\/a>, a day before the commemoration of Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives Awareness Day.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n  Haaland,  a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna,  is joined by Bryan Newland, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for  Indian Affairs at the  <a href=https:\/\/www.doi.gov\/>Department of the Interior<\/a>,  and  Tracy Toulou, the director of the  Office of Tribal Justice  at the <a href=https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/>Department of Justice<\/a> on the call. Their opening remarks are followed by questions and answers with members of the news media.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\" content_cards_card content_cards_domain_twitter-com\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content_cards_image\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_image_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USInteriorPress\/status\/1385336331287547906\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/plugins\/content-cards\/skins\/default\/content-cards-placeholder.png\" alt=\"\">\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_title\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USInteriorPress\/status\/1385336331287547906\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_description\">\n\t\t<a class=\"content_cards_description_link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USInteriorPress\/status\/1385336331287547906\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/abs.twimg.com\/favicons\/twitter.3.ico\" alt=\"X (formerly Twitter)\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tX (formerly Twitter)\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nHaaland, who is the first Native person to lead Interior,  recently established the cross-departmental Missing and Murdered Unit (MMU), which will provide the necessary resources and leadership to prioritize unsolved cases.  Interior and Justice have also announced the next steps in the implementation of the Not Invisible Act to garner attention to this crisis.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secretary Deb Haaland discusses efforts to combat violence against Indigenous peoples, a day before Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives Awareness Day.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-audio.php","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,1,14],"tags":[117,625,88,118,362,511,197,1490,1491],"class_list":["post-11105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indian-trust","category-law","category-national","category-politics","tag-bia","tag-bryan-newland","tag-deb-haaland","tag-doi","tag-doj","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mmiw","tag-not-invisible-act","tag-tracy-toulou","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/04\/mmiw-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-2T7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}