{"id":3432,"date":"2020-10-22T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2020-10-22T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T14:22:20","slug":"rep-markwayne-mullin-the-silent-crisis-of-the-missing-and-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/22\/rep-markwayne-mullin-the-silent-crisis-of-the-missing-and-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Markwayne Mullin: The silent crisis of the missing and murdered"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-attachment-id=\"3433\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/22\/rep-markwayne-mullin-the-silent-crisis-of-the-missing-and-murdered\/mmiw-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mmiw-1-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"mmiw justice for kozee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mmiw-1-1024x683.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mmiw-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"mmiw justice for kozee\"  class=\"alignnone img-fluid wp-image-3433\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">Natie women take part a Justice for Kozee rally  in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 15, 2020, in  support of Kozee Decorah, a 22-year-old Ho-Chunk Nation woman who was   murdered  on the Winnebago Reservation. Photo by <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevin_Abourezk\">Kevin Abourezk<\/A> <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevin_Abourezk\"><I aria-hidden=true class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/I><\/A>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Fighting the Silent Crisis<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Thursday, October 22, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) <A href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMullin\"><I aria-hidden=true class=\"fab fa-twitter\"><\/I><\/A><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source-links\"><A href=\"https:\/\/mullin.house.gov\/\">mullin.house.gov<\/A><\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nWe are experiencing an epidemic of violence in our tribal communities: 80 percent of Native men and women experience violence, 34 percent of Native women experience sexual violence in their lifetimes, and murder is the third-leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nNative women and girls are also disproportionately likely to become victims of sex trafficking. We don\u2019t even have a full picture of the number of women who go missing each year because the databases that hold the statistics of these cases are outdated, underreported, and lack coordination between law enforcement agencies.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nThe silent crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women is wreaking havoc on our families and communities. As the father of six children, including three young girls, these statistics are horrifying. We cannot stand by and let it continue.\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\/RepMullin\/status\/1306695778421874688\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/ext_tw_video_thumb\/1306695585760673792\/pu\/img\/7EG1LDpQjDoGwrsb?format=webp&#038;name=large\" alt=\"Markwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) on X\">\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\/RepMullin\/status\/1306695778421874688\">\n\t\t\tMarkwayne Mullin (@SenMullin) on X\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\/RepMullin\/status\/1306695778421874688\">\n\t\t\t<p>The crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women is wreaking havoc on our communities. Speaker Pelosi, please bring Savanna\u2019s Act and the Not Invisible Act to the floor so we can protect our sisters from becoming a statistic. #ENDMMIW<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"content_cards_site_name\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"X (formerly Twitter)\" class=\"content_cards_favicon\"\/>\t\tX (formerly Twitter)\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\nPresident Trump is the first president to formally recognize the crisis and take action to combat it. Last year, he signed an executive order to establish the Operation Lady Justice Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nThe Task Force has opened six cold case offices across the country and has developed protocols for how to handle missing and murdered cases in Indian Country. This is an extraordinary step in the right direction.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\nEarlier this month, President signed two bills I cosponsored into law which will build on the work the Task Force has done. Savanna\u2019s Act and the Not Invisible Act, which is the first piece of legislation to be introduced by four Native American Members of Congress, will give our law enforcement officers the tools they need to address the crisis and will help prevent our sisters from becoming a statistic.\r\n <P><\/P>\r\nOur priority must be to protect native women and children and all parties have to work together to end this epidemic of violence. I applaud President Trump for his commitment to ending this crisis and I am proud to stand with him in fighting for Indian Country.\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<HR><div class=row><DIV class=col-md-3><IMG class=\"img-fluid wow fadeIn\" \r\nsrc=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2019\/05\/30\/markwaynemullin.jpg\" \r\nitemprop=\"image\"><\/IMG><\/DIV>\r\n<DIV class=col-md-9><EM>Markwayne Mullin, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, was \r\nfirst elected to serve the people of Oklahoma\u2019s Second Congressional District in \r\nNovember 2012. He is currently serving his fourth term in office. Mullin and his \r\nwife Christie have six children. The Mullin family currently resides in \r\nWestville, Oklahoma, on the same family farm where Markwayne was raised. <\/EM><\/div><\/div><Hr>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The silent crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women is wreaking havoc on our families and communities.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,9,14],"tags":[50,75,48,296,197,231,232,44],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-opinion","category-politics","tag-116th","tag-donald-trump","tag-house","tag-markwayne-mullin","tag-mmiw","tag-s-227","tag-s-982","tag-women","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-Tm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/mmiw-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}