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Native people are at disproportionate risk of experiencing violence, being murdered or going missing. In 2020, Congress passed a law called the Not Invisible Act to try to stop this. It was written by Deb Haaland, then a representative and now the first Indigenous secretary of the Interior Department. She promised the government would listen to Native people. A federal commission is now listening to families searching for lost loved ones.
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In the wake of a congressional hearing on the disproportionate rate of BIPOC women and girls who go missing in the U.S., a representative of the Navajo Nation connects the crisis there to the lack of a modern 911 system.
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The Navajo Nation Council met on Monday, Aug. 10, to talk about impacts from the more than 3-million-gallon toxic spill into the Animas River. "This is an…