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A Crow artist is bringing awareness to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Peoples epidemic as part of a six-month fellowship.

Montana is the final stop for an advisory commission charged with improving the federal government’s response to missing or murdered Indigenous people and human trafficking cases.

According to the report, Indigenous people accounted for nearly a third of all 2021 missing person reports in Montana, despite only making up roughly 7% of the state’s total population.

Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness Center hosted a month-long filmmaking camp for Indigenous students.

Nearly 30 Indigenous advocacy groups are condemning the work of a presidential task force on missing and murdered Indigenous person cases.

Amid Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s awareness week, we’re going to hear from the host of the new podcast called Stolen: The Search For Jermain, which follows the story of Jermain Charlo, a 23-year old member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes who went missing in Missoula in June 2018.

Democratic Rep. Sharon Stuart Peregoy of Crow Agency told the House Judiciary Committee that lawmakers must build upon legislation passed in 2019 in response to the disproportionate number of Indigenous people who go missing in Montana.

The new TV show is facing backlash from critics who say the network overlooked an important opportunity to talk about a real crisis in Montana.

The U.S. House Tuesday passed Savanna’s Act, a policy that would require the Department of Justice to create new protocols to address missing or...