Articles with the Tag: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons
Every person contributes to the tapestry of life woven by the threads connecting them to others. When a person is gone, the tapestry changes, altered forever by the loss. The loss can change the strength of the tapestry and over time a threadbare space is all that remains. When a person goes missing, the imp...
News from the U.S. Dept. of Justice and Dept. of the Interior WASHINGTON – The Departments of Justice and the Interior recently released their joint response to the Not Invisible Act Commission’s recommendations on how to combat the missing or murdered Indigenous peoples (MMIP) and human tra...
News from Cathy Billie ST. IGNATIUS — The program “Empowering Voices: Addressing the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Epidemic” will be at Mission Valley United Methodist Church, 70715 US-93, top of Post Creek Hill, on Wednesday, March 6. The evening will begin with a potluck...
GNP Artist-In-Residence 2024/2025 application period open News from Glacier National Park WEST GLACIER — The application period for artists to apply for the 2024/2025 Glacier National Park Artist-in-Residence Program opened Aug. 6, 2023. The deadline to apply is Sept. 4, 2023. ...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION — From June 13 to June 16, families and members of the community marched to remember lives lost along U.S. Highway 93. The 2023 Justice to be Seen Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) Walk took place through the Flathead Reservation. Starting out in Arlee and e...
News from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Montana BILLINGS — The Justice Department joins its partners across the federal government, as well as people throughout American Indian and Alaska Native communities, in recognizing May 5 as National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Pers...
News from the Journey to Wellness Program PABLO — Imagine what a family faces when someone they love goes missing. Each person in their circle is forever impacted by the loss. For some, the unknown last for years and even decades. In other cases, an answer comes with the heartbreaking resolution o...
News from the U.S. Dept. of the Interior WASHINGTON — As part of the continued work by the Departments of the Interior and Justice to implement the Not Invisible Act and combat the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP), Secretary Deb Haaland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Mona...
News from the Department of the Interior WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco recently recognized National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day with a virtual event to highlight the Not Invisible Act Commission. T...
A year ago, we launched the Snowbird Fund to help families and friends of missing and murdered indigenous persons by offering immediate cash assistance (no questions asked) to search for their loved ones. Since then, the fund has not only survived but it has doubled its cash amount and increased its fundi...
