Trump signs executive order creating task force on missing and murdered Native Americans

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I saw that movie.

I liked the movie, but I'm not sure that it really emphasized the issue. American Indian women have a much higher murder rate and violent crime rate than other women's demographic groups. The other thing is that the race of the perpetrator is usually not the same as the victim, which is not the case in almost every other demographic. Hopefully this bill will correct some of this gross injustice.

The last shot of the movie is a written statement on the screen stating that missing persons statistics are kept by the FBI for every demographic group except for Native American women, whose numbers remain unknown. The author said in a press conference his intent was to highlight the high numbers for Native American women being raped and murdered both on and off the reservation. I thought it was pretty powerful, but it was not a documentary.

And on a positive note, this is an area that needs light shone on it. Drug & alcohol abuse & physical, mental, & physical abuse are rampant on all the local Reservations. There is such despair, as they see no way out, except for those who work for the gold mines & don't drink the money away. They are solid & strong.

Jennifer Lee (Doerflinger) Hill - And suicide rates of men are disproportionately high.
Rich

SSgt Richard Kensinger oh, so true, SSGT. Alcoholism, drugs & despair were the primary symptoms of the Reservation system, when I was a child. Mom would quickly move us on, when some poor man was at the bottom of a delivery staircase, or in an alley, or, God forbid, under a car. Our local large town/micro-city encompasses a reservation of Shoshone & Paiute Indians & we saw that all too often.
These days, among the younger population, drugs, mixed w alcohol, seem to be the choice. Rarely, anymore, do we see unconscious men huddled at the bottom of stairwells, at least in the main downtown area. That doesn't mean the problem has been solved; rather, it is more that these people are put in jail.
Mental health services are hard to come by, locally, & the providers are buried with cases.
Having had my own struggle w PTSD, my heart goes out to the men & women caught in this horrible cycle. They're often the victims of violence & abuse, which fuels their substance abuse.
Elko, NV does NOT have the climate to be without shelter. Winters vary, but we regularly find homeless men frozen to death, most Winters. The City fathers have a dreadful procedure for opening the doors if the warming shelter. It has to be 0*F before they will allow the shelter doors to open & volunteers must either be men or have a man there. I think having multiple women working together for safety, could keep the doors open when no men are available.
Forgive my rattling on, but I've watched this horror since I was a child, when there were no helps of any kind. NV made a political decision in the 60s to not be CA & not be a welfare state. Obv., that decision has been amended, somewhat, but rural areas still give the homeless, if they're lucky, a hot meal & a bed, if traveling by auto, enough gas to get to the next town & that is it.

You are not "ranting", you are providing your observations and experience. BTW, alcohol itself is highly connected to suicide. Women attempt more often while men are more likely to complete.
Rich