Colorado Springs Indigenous activists shine light on cold cases: "Indigenous women are considered invisible"

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Duration: 06:24s 05 Oct 2021 0 shares 3 views

Colorado Springs Indigenous activists shine light on cold cases: 'Indigenous women are considered invisible' — Colorado Springs Indigenous activists shine light on cold cases: "Indigenous women are considered invisible"

According to a study from the Urban Indian Health Institute, there were 5,712 missing Indigenous women and girls reported to the National Crime Information Center by 2016.

At that time, the US Department of Justice's federal missing persons database, NamUs, had recorded 116 cases.

Discrepancies in data make it impossible to know how many Indigenous people are missing or murdered in America every year.

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