Native Americans account for 64% of cases on the South Dakota Missing Person Clearinghouse website. Five of those cases have been posted since May first.
May is Missing and Murdered Indigenous People month. South Dakota Urban Indian Health recognized the time with gatherings in Pierre and Sioux Falls last week.
Missing person cases involving Native Americans are often complicated by overlapping jurisdictions and the vast rural geography of reservations, but the high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous people is not just a rural issue…