[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 369 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 369

     Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2021, as the 
 ``National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and 
                                Girls''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 2021

  Mr. Newhouse (for himself, Mr. Armstrong, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Joyce of 
   Ohio, Mr. Rosendale, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Cole, Mrs. Hinson, and Mr. 
Johnson of South Dakota) submitted the following resolution; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2021, as the 
 ``National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and 
                                Girls''.

Whereas according to a study commissioned by the Department of Justice, in some 
        Tribal communities, American Indian women face murder rates that are 
        more than 10 times the national average;
Whereas according to the most recently available data from the Centers for 
        Disease Control and Prevention, in 2017, homicide was the sixth leading 
        cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls 
        under 44 years of age;
Whereas approximately 1,500 American Indian and Alaska Native missing persons 
        have been entered into the National Crime Information Center throughout 
        the United States, and approximately 2,700 cases of murder and 
        nonnegligent homicide offenses have been reported to the Federal 
        Government's Uniform Crime Reporting Program;
Whereas, in 2020, Savanna's Act and the Not Invisible Act were signed into law 
        to address this lack of data and to improve law enforcement coordination 
        to address the number of missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska 
        Native women; and
Whereas in previous years, May 5 has been designated as the day of remembrance 
        for ``Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls'' in honor of the 
        birth date of Hanna Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, who 
        was murdered after being reported missing by her family in Lame Deer, 
        Montana: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) expresses support for the designation of the ``National 
        Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and 
        Girls'';
            (2) calls on the people of the United States and interested 
        groups to--
                    (A) commemorate the lives of missing and murdered 
                American Indian and Alaska Native women whose cases are 
                documented and undocumented in public records and the 
                media; and
                    (B) demonstrate solidarity with the families of 
                victims in light of those tragedies; and
            (3) recognizes there is more work to be done to address 
        this nationwide crisis.
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