As the communities around the United States marked Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Monday, Oct. 12, Nevada lawmakers revealed a plan to prioritize legislation that would establish a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) alert system.
At a gathering hosted by the Native Voters Alliance Nevada on the Las Vegas Strip, Assemblymember Shea Backus (D-Las Vegas), a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, announced she is sponsoring a bill draft request to establish the statewide alert system that would rapidly share information with law enforcement, Tribal Nations, media, and the public when an Indigenous person goes missing under qualifying circumstances.
If passed, Nevada would be the seventh state with an MMIP alert, following California, Washington, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, and Arizona…