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Missing and Murdered Indigenous People movement gains state and federal attention

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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous People movement gains state and federal attention

• Jacob Factor
• May 5, 2021
• May 5, 2021 Updated Jun 9, 2022
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Nokusece Wind is pictured in February 2021, searching the streets and alleys of Tulsa for signs of his sister or people who may be holding her. Leandra Wind has been missing for more than five months.

• John Clanton, Tulsa World file

Nokusece Wind gets more information from his father on the phone as he meets with a Tulsa police officer and fills out a missing person report about his younger sister in February.

• John Clanton, Tulsa World

Nokusece Wind searches the streets of Tulsa weekly for signs of his sister, Leandra Wind.

• John Clanton, Tulsa World

Nokusece Wind holds up a picture of his sister as he asks a Tulsa motel owner and staff members if they've seen her.

• John Clanton, Tulsa World

Nokusece Wind looks in the parking lots of motels like this one near Admiral Place and Sheridan Road for signs of his missing sister.

• John Clanton, Tulsa World

Nokusece Wind searches behind a dumpster at a Tulsa motel for people who may have seen his missing sister.

• John Clanton, Tulsa World

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Jacob Factor

“Have you seen my sister?”

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Who are they? OK children reported missing as of April 23

These are recent reports of missing children made to local law enforcement. If you think you have seen a missing child, contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).

jacob.factor@tulsaworld.com

By the numbers

5,295 Native women and girls missing

4,276 Native men and boys missing

1,496 Native people actively missing at the end of 2020

Source: NCIC 2020 Missing Persons Statistics

717 missing Native people in U.S.

74 missing Native people in Oklahoma

217 missing Native women in U.S.

32 missing Native women in Oklahoma

500 missing Native men in U.S.

42 missing Native men in Oklahoma

Source: NamUs Missing Persons database

Percentage of Native American women vs. percentage of white women

Any lifetime violence — 84.3 - 71

Sexual violence — 56.1 - 49.7

Physical violence by intimate partner — 55.5 - 34.5

Any past-year violence — 39.8 - 23.3

Sexual violence — 14.4 - 5.4

Percentage of Native American men vs. percentage of white men

Any lifetime violence — 81.6 - 64

Sexual violence — 27.5 - 20.9

Physical violence by intimate partner — 43.2 - 30.5

Any past-year violence — 34.6 - 25.7

Sexual violence — 9.9 - 3.8

Source: NIJ study on violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women and men

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