RALEIGH — On the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP), Lumbee Tribal Chairman John L. Lowery visited with North Carolina Governor Josh Stein, Speaker Pro Tem Phil Burger, and NC House Majority Leader Brenden Jones to discuss the importance of collecting and reporting concise, ethnic specific data relating to domestic violence and sexual assault cases.
Lowery encouraged policy makers to investigate what hinders the gathering and reporting of specific data in cases involving Indigenous people.
Another issue is that tribal territories often cross county lines and data is usually reported by those counties. That county data often doesn’t reflect Indigenous populations…