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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2018 Report cites weak reporting on missing, killed Native women Vanishing in high numbers By MARY HUDETZ Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Numerous police depart- ments nationwide are not ade- quately identifying or reporting cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls as concerns mount over the level of violence they often face, according to a study released by a Native American non- profit Wednesday. The report from the Seat- tle-based Urban Indian Health Institute, the research arm of the Seattle Indian Health Board, was conducted over the past year amid worry in tribal communities and cities that Native American and Alaska Native women are vanishing in high numbers, despite a lack of available government data to identify the full scope of the problem. Researchers said they iden- tified some 500 missing persons and homicide cases involving Native American women in 71 cities after reviewing data obtained through media reports and public records requests sent to police departments. They reviewed cases dat- ing back to the 1940s, though roughly two-thirds were from the past eight years, according to Annita Lucchesi, a cartog- rapher and descendant of the Cheyenne whose database of missing and murdered indig- enous women in the U.S. and Canada was the basis for the research. In total, she has a list of some 2,700 names. Of the cases included in the report on U.S. cities, a quarter repre- sented missing persons cases, AP Photo/David Goldman Kenny Still Smoking touches the tombstone of his 7-year-old daughter, Monica, who disappeared from school in 1979 and was found frozen on a mountain, as he visits her grave on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Mont. and just more than half were homicides. Researchers said they expect their figures to repre- sent an undercount, in part, because some police depart- ments in cities with substan- tial Native American popula- tions — such as Albuquerque and Billings, Montana — did not provide figures in response to records requests, or because Native American victims may have been identified as belong- ing to another race. “What it does show is, yes, this is happening,” said Abigail Echo-Hawk, who is the direc- tor of the Urban Indian Health Institute. “But there has to be major changes to the way data is collected.” U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, joined other law- makers and representatives of the Urban Indian Health Insti- tute to review the report’s find- ings Wednesday in Washing- ton, D.C. Its release comes as multiple bills at the state and federal levels have been pro- posed to address the issue and improve data collection. In Washington state, for example, a law was enacted in June that requires the Wash- ington State Patrol to con- duct a study to examine how to improve the collection and sharing of information about missing Native American women. The study also will develop an estimate of how many Native women are miss- ing in the state. The state is home to 29 tribes. A report to the Legisla- ture is expected in June. In Congress, meanwhile, a bill to expand tribal access to some federal crime databases, establish protocols for handling cases of missing and murdered Native Americans, and require annual reports on the num- ber of missing and murdered Native American women was set for a hearing Wednesday. It was introduced last year by U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat who lost her bid for re-elec- tion last week. She named the bill Savanna’s Act in honor of Savanna LaFontaine-Grey- wind, a 22-year-old who was brutally killed in Fargo, North Dakota, in 2017 while eight months pregnant. Her body was found in a river, wrapped in plastic and duct tape, after a neighbor cut her baby girl from her womb. The child survived and lives with her father. Brooke Crews admitted to the killing and was sentenced to life in prison without parole earlier this year. Her boyfriend, William Hoehn, was sentenced last month to life in prison with a chance at parole for conspir- ing to kidnap the baby and lying to police about it. Heitkamp has said that if authorities had more accurate statistics, they might be able to detect patterns to help solve more cases. The authors of the nonprofit’s report share that opinion. But they also point out that the legislation’s data col- lection mandates likely would not include LaFontaine-Grey- wind herself. That’s because the bill would largely set mandates for federal law enforcement, which has some jurisdiction over crimes on reservations and other tribal lands but not municipalities. LaFontaine-Greywind had been killed in Fargo, a city beyond the boundar- ies of any of North Dakota’s reservations. The report underscores U.S. Census figures showing that a majority of Native Americans now live in urban areas. The study’s authors said that shows the urgent need for including cases stemming from cities in reforms. 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