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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.

Local Indigenous leader, Angel Charley, testified Thursday at a U.S. congressional hearing highlighting the neglected crisis of missing and murdered Black, brown and Indigenous women and relatives, challenging lawmakers to remove barriers to solving these cases.

The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives is a national crisis, especially here in New Mexico, which leads the country in the…

New Mexico is among the top ten states for the most missing American Indian and Alaskan natives. That’s according to a report from Urban Indian Health Institute, which found Albuquerque was among other cities like Omaha and San Francisco, with the highest number of urban cases.