The federal response to missing and murdered Indigenous women, 2020 to 2024

the Not Invisible Act of 2019 requires the Secretary of the Interior, in coordination with the Attorney General, to appoint members to a Joint Commission on Reducing Violence Against Indians by February 7, 2021, but as of October 15, 2021, no members have been appointed

The total number of missing or murdered Indigenous women—referred to as American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women in this report— is unknown because, for several reasons, federal databases do not contain comprehensive national data on all AI/AN women reported missing.

More than 4 in 5 American Indian and Alaska Native women (84.3 percent) have experienced violence in their lifetime.

American Indian and Alaska Native women are 1.2 times as likely to have experienced violence in their lifetime and are 1.7 times as likely to have experienced violence in the past year

Among American Indian and Alaska Native victims, 96 percent of women and 89 percent of men have experienced sexual violence by an interracial perpetrator.

In March 2024, the Departments released their response to the Commission’s recommendations on how to combat the missing or murdered Indigenous peoples and human trafficking crisis.