09/22/2020
Savanna's Act and the Not Invisible Act are both important pieces of legislation and long overdue.
https://www.indian.senate.gov/news/press-release/hoeven-house-passes-savanna-s-act-bill-goes-president-be-signed-law
At least 506 indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been killed in 71 American cities — including more than 330 since 2010. 95% of cases were never even covered by the media and these numbers are considered gross underestimations. (See https://www.uihi.org/projects/our-bodies-our-stories/ for more information)
84% percent of Native women experience violence in their lifetime, and in some tribal communities, Native women are murdered at 10 times the national average.
It is far past time that the violence against women in Native communities is addressed.
WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven, chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, today issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed Savanna’s Act, legislation he cosponsored that requires reporting on missing and murdered Native Americans. The bill, which i...