This bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review, revise, and develop law enforcement and justice protocols to address missing or murdered Native Americans.

This bill increases the coordination of efforts to reduce violent crime within Indian lands and against Indians. Specifically, the Department of the Interior must designate an official within the Bureau of Indian Affairs to coordinate prevention efforts, grants, and programs related to missing Indians and the murder and human trafficking of Indians.

To reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and for other purposes.

Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States (Committee on Natural Resources). Testimony from Sarah Deer, the Honorable Ruth Buffalo, Mary Kathryn Nagle, and Tami Jerue.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) State Legislative Tracker is a navigational database designed to help you easily search legislation relating to MMIW within your state and across the country. From the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center.

The act requires the department of public safety (department) to improve the investigation of missing and murdered indigenous relative cases and address injustice in the criminal justice system's response to the cases of missing and murdered indigenous relative cases.

January 10, 2022

Based in Denver, this national organization serves as a non-partisan organization relied upon by state lawmakers and researchers to track state legislative actions, model laws, and public policy initiatives.

1973-present. From the 93rd Congress onward.