California tribe confronts crisis of missing, murdered women

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California's rugged Lost Coast.

The crisis has spurred the Yurok Tribe to issue an emergency declaration and brought increased urgency to efforts to build California's first database of such cases and regain sovereignty over key services. Missing person posters flutter from gas station doors and road signs. Even the tribal police chief isn't untouched: He took in the daughter of one missing woman, and Emmilee — an enrolled Hoopa Valley tribal member with Yurok and Karuk blood — babysat his children.

She cautions her daughters about what it means to be female, Native American and growing up on a reservation:"You're a statistic. But we have to keep going. We have to show people we're still here."Like countless cases involving Indigenous women, Emmilee's disappearance has gotten no attention from the outside world.

"You say, 'OK, how did we get to this situation where we're losing our children?'" said Abinanti."There were big gaps in knowledge, including parenting, and generationally those play out."

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