Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives #MMIW #MMIP
Channel: indianz
Date: 2020-02-13

Closing remarks at the first listening session of the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives in Washington, D.C., on February 12, 2020.

Tara Sweeney, the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior, and Katharine Sullivan,  the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice, serve as co-chairs of the new task force, which was established by executive order on November 26, 2019. The group is also known as Operation Lady Justice.

Other members of the task force who attended the listening session were Jeannie Hovland of the Administration for Native Americans at the Department of Health and Human Services, Laura Rogers of the Office of Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice and Charles Addington of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The two additional members of the task force are U.S. Attorney Trent Shores from the Northern District of Oklahoma and Terry Wade of the Criminal Investigative Division at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Operation Lady Justice's name comes from artwork created by Derek Grant "D.G." Smalling, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation. He created the "Lady Justice" piece during a National Native American Heritage Month event at the BIA in November 2018.

#MMIW #MMIP #OperationLadyJustice

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