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Secretary Haaland plans announcement amid calls for progress on missing and murdered
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is hosting a virtual event on May 5 to mark National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.
According to a post on social media, Haaland plans to highlight the Not Invisible Act Commission. The new entity was authorized by Congress through the Not Invisible Act to help address the crisis of missing and murdered people in Indian Country, especially women and girls.
But nine months after seeking members for the commission, the Biden administration is facing increased calls to make progress in implementing the Not Invisible Act, which Haaland co-sponsored when she served in the U.S. Congress.
“The Not Invisible commission, for example, should have begun its work more than a year ago, yet its members have not even been named,” key lawmakers from the the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs said in a letter on Monday. In the letter, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) also expressed concerns about the apparent lack of progress in implementing another law. Savanna’s Act was named in memory of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a 22-year-old Spirit Lake Nation citizen whose disappearance and murder in 2017 helped draw attention to the crisis. “Similarly, under Savanna’s Act, the creation of regionally appropriate response guidelines to cases of missing or murdered Native people should have already be implemented by U.S. Attorneys, yet Tribes on the ground have not received progress updates with any concrete information,” the three lawmakers stated.On National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day this Thursday, please join me for a virtual event to highlight the Not Invisible Act Commission and @Interior’s work to address the MMIP crisis. You can watch the event at https://t.co/rTiHXO57ki at 2:30pm ET. pic.twitter.com/e8ZO4BCPMc
— Secretary Deb Haaland (@SecDebHaaland) May 4, 2022
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