|
Maliyah Cartier, a Washington High School and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, poses for a photo during a student walkout to commemorate thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women on Thursday, October 5, 2023 at Linwood Park in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Missing and Murdered Unit's caseload covers a small fraction of an estimated 4,200 unsolved cases nationwide among American Indians and Alaska Natives, with the victims ranging in age from toddlers to the elderly. Indigenous people account for 3.5% of missing persons in the U.S. – more than three times the percentage in the overall population, according to federal data. (Photo by Samantha Laurey/The Argus Leader via AP Photo)
|
