Friday, July 17, 2020<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON \u2013 The Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives announced 12 Tribal consultations to occur virtually across the United States in the coming months.<\/p>\n
American Indians and Alaska Natives experience disproportionately high rates of violence. President Trump has called the crisis of missing and murdered Native Americans \u201csobering and heartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives, also known as Operation Lady Justice, announces the upcoming series of Tribal consultations under Executive Order 13898. The Executive Order requires the Task Force to \u201cconduct appropriate consultations with Tribal governments on the scope and nature of the issues regarding missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives.\u201d While the Task Force had plans in place for a robust schedule of consultations and listening sessions in various locations in Indian country and elsewhere beginning in March, postponement of those sessions was required by the current public health crisis.\u00a0 Therefore, the Task Force has established a series of Tribal consultations to be held virtually. The sessions are regional, based on Bureau of Indian Affairs regions.\u00a0 The schedule, link to register, Dear Tribal Leader letter and framing paper are available on the Operation Lady Justice website, which can be found at OperationLadyJustice.usdoj.gov<\/a> August 17th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m. Eastern<\/p>\n August 19th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m. Eastern<\/p>\n August 21st, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0Eastern\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 August 25th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m. Eastern<\/p>\n August 27th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m. Eastern<\/p>\n August 31st, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0Eastern<\/p>\n September 2nd, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m. Eastern<\/p>\n September 4th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0 Eastern<\/p>\n September 8th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m. Eastern<\/p>\n September 10th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0Eastern\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 September 14th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0 Eastern<\/p>\n September 17th, 1:30 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.\u00a0Eastern<\/p>\n The members of the Task Force are:<\/p>\n Marcia Good of the Department of Justice serves as the Executive Director of the Task Force.\u00a0 The Task Force will present a progress report to the President by Nov. 26, 2020, and a final report detailing its activities and accomplishments by Nov. 26, 2021.<\/p>\n The year 2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the Department of Justice. Learn more about the history of the Department of Justice at\u00a0www.Justice.gov\/ The Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives announced 12 Tribal consultations to occur virtually across the United States in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[447,545,422],"class_list":["post-7315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-institutions","tag-meetings","tag-mmip","tag-mmiw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7316,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions\/7316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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