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Spilyay Tymoo, Warm Springs, Oregon
May 22, 2019
Bill to help protect Native women
Native American women
have gone missing or been
killed at much higher rates
that non-Native women.
An estimate is that the rate
of Native women going miss-
ing or being killed is ten times
that of non-Native women.
One problem is the con-
fusion by law enforcement
over who has jurisdiction to
pursue these cases, leading to
lax pursuit and insufficient
data.
Oregon is home to nine
federally recognized tribes or
confederations of tribes.
The state has now joined
a movement to account for
and solve more of the crimes.
Gov. Kate Brown, meet-
ing with tribal leaders, includ-
ing from Warm Springs, re-
cently signed a bill directing
state police to study how to
increase and improve crimi-
nal justice resources on these
cases.
For the past few decades,
Patricia Whitefoot of the
Yakama Nation has been a
Warm Springs Sani-
tation reminds resi-
dents to place their
tote at the road. This
will help them save
time so they can do
all the scheduled
pick up with the staff
and equipment they
have available right
now. If you have
questions - call the
landfill at 553-3163.
main advocate of reform
to address the problem.
At the signing ceremony,
Ms. Whitefoot said that her
sister, Daisy Mae Heath
Tallman, was 29 when she
went missing.
She was Whitefoot’s
youngest sister and lived
with her in Washington
state.
She would be gone for
long periods, fishing for
salmon in traditional spots
along the Columbia River,
and visiting relatives on the
Warm Springs Reservation.
Then in the autumn of
1987, she never returned to
her home in White Swan.
The case was never solved.
Patricia was involved in the
effort to pass the bill in Or-
egon, and a similar one in
Washington state earlier.
Travis Hampton, superin-
tendent of the Oregon State
Police, told attendees, many
of them Native American
women, that he was emotion-
ally invested in bringing re-
sults.
He said he had been con-
cerned about a lack of state
police jurisdiction in Indian
country, but that it would be
compensated for with col-
laboration among federal,
state and local law enforce-
ment.
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