A government report warned of gaps in law enforcement coordination and the tracking of cases for a vulnerable population.
said they had experienced violence and about half of Indigenous women have experienced sexual violence and physical violence by an intimate partner. The vast majority of Native American survivors also report being harmed by a non-Indigenous person, according to the Biden administration.
Biden said that previous executive actions have not been sufficient to “reverse the epidemic” of violence against American Indians. Tribal leaders have long spoken about an apparent lack of urgency to Indigenous women murder cases because of historic and systemic racism and prejudice. The total number of missing or murdered women, however, is unknown, according to the Government Accountability Office . After reviewing the federal response to what officials and tribal leaders have called “a crisis,” the GAO highlighted reasons why the data is incomplete and provided recommendations to improve the federal response.
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