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on the article "Missing and murdered Indigenous Women"

Plan:

add more to the "statistics" section and break the section into Canadian and US sections

add DOJ day of remembrance to its own section? US initiatives?? Break National inquiry section into US and Canadian Initiatives?

Sources to use:

Savanna's Act: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1942

Violence & American/Alaska Native: https://nij.gov/journals/277/Pages/violence-against-american-indians-alaska-natives.aspx#table2

DOJ Day of Remembrance: https://www.justice.gov/ovw/blog/recognizing-national-day-awareness-missing-and-murdered-native-women-and-girls

Legislation analysis: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/223691.pdf

Washington State Inquiry: http://apps2.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2951&Year=2017&BillNumber=2951&Year=2017

US Initiatives
In the United States, 84% of Indigenous women experience violence perpetrated by a white man in their lifetime. A contributing factor to this problem is that United States legislature deters the investigation and prosecution of crimes committed on tribal lands. According to a Supreme Court ruling in Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978) tribal courts do not hold any jurisdictional powers over non-American Indians and Alaska Natives, and therefore cannot prosecute or punish them for their crimes. Additionally, the Indian Civil Rights Act (1968) limits the maximum punishment for any crime to a $5000 fine and up to one year in prison. Because tribal government holds no power over non-American Indian and Alaska Natives, essentially all violent crimes committed on tribal lands are prosecuted by the federal government. This continues to raise problems law enforcement departments must compete over jurisdictional powers based on the nature of the crime, lowering the overall effectiveness of law enforcement, and providing enough immunity to the dominant group for these crimes to become commonplace.

National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls
On May 5th the US has declared a national day of awareness in order to raise concern for the crisis, and refocus attention on issues affecting Indigenous women with the hopes of improving relations between the federal and tribal governments.