IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 381 
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2025, as the ‘‘National 
Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 5, 2025 
Mr. NEWHOUSE (for himself, Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ, Mr. COLE, Mr. 
HUFFMAN, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. CASE, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. 
STANTON, Mrs. BICE, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Ms. PIN-
GREE, Mr. POCAN, and Ms. SCHRIER) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addi-
tion to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently 
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2025, 
as the ‘‘National Day of Awareness for Missing and 
Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’’. 
Whereas, according to a 2016 study commissioned by the De-
partment of Justice’s (DOJ) National Institute of Justice 
(NIJ), more than 4 in 5 (84.3 percent) American Indian 
and Alaska Native women experienced violence in their 
lifetime, with 56.1 percent being a result of sexual vio-
lence and 55 percent being from intimate partner vio-
lence; 
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Whereas, according to 2017 data, the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention found homicide was the sixth- 
leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaska 
Native women and girls under 44 years of age, with mur-
der rates more than 10 times the national average; 
Whereas approximately 1,500 American Indian and Alaska 
Native missing persons have been entered into the Na-
tional Crime Information Center index 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 Pro-
gram; 
Whereas, according to a 2020 joint study completed by the 
State of Hawai’i and the Hawai’i State Commission on 
the Status of Women, 64 percent of human trafficking 
victims in Hawai’i identified as at least part Native Ha-
waiian; 
Whereas the current local, State, and Federal funding avail-
able in Indian country is inadequate to address the basic, 
emergency, and long-term service needs of victims and 
negatively impacts Tribal governments’ ability to dis-
tribute lifesaving resources; 
Whereas, in 2019, Operation Lady Justice was launched 
through Executive Order 13898 which established the 
Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians 
and Alaska Natives aimed at mitigating the missing and 
murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) crisis by improv-
ing the investigatory and prosecutorial capabilities of 
Federal justice agencies and generating new guidelines 
for data sharing and law enforcement responses; 
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Whereas, in 2020, Savanna’s Act (Public Law 116–165) and 
the Not Invisible Act (Public Law 116–166) were signed 
into law, which initiated a joint commission between the 
Department of the Interior (DOI) and DOJ to combat 
violent crime within Tribal communities and develop new 
law enforcement protocols when investigating MMIW; 
Whereas, in 2021, DOI created a Missing and Murdered Unit 
within its Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Office of Justice 
Services to expand cross-departmental and interagency 
collaboration for the purposes of investigating cases of 
missing and murdered Indigenous people at the request 
of Tribal leadership; 
Whereas, in 2022, DOI fulfilled a provision in the Not Invis-
ible Act requiring the establishment of the Not Invisible 
Act Commission by filling membership with law enforce-
ment, Tribal leaders, Federal partners, service providers, 
family members of MMIW, and survivors and held their 
first meeting; 
Whereas, in 2023, the Not Invisible Act Commission sub-
mitted recommendations to the DOJ, DOI, and Congress 
to address the epidemic of missing persons and the mur-
der and trafficking of American Indian and Alaska Na-
tive peoples; 
Whereas, in response to the commission’s recommendations, 
DOJ highlighted the MMIW regional outreach program 
to aid the U.S. Attorney’s Offices to update Savanna’s 
Act guidelines to provide further training and technical 
assistance to State agencies and provide uniformity in 
guidelines across jurisdictions; 
Whereas, despite progress that has been made, in 2024, 
5,614 Indigenous Women and Girls were reported miss-
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ing. Of these 5,614 reports, 4,179 victims were under the 
age of 18. At the end of 2024, there were 628 active 
missing person records; 
Whereas, research data shows that national averages hide the 
extremely high rates of murder against Indigenous 
women and girls present in some counties comprised pri-
marily of tribal land; 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 a 
‘‘National Day of Awareness for Missing and Mur-
dered Indigenous Women and Girls’’; 
(2) calls on the people of the United States and 
interested groups to— 
(A) commemorate the lives of missing and 
murdered Indigenous women and girls whose 
cases are documented and undocumented in 
public records and the media; and 
(B) demonstrate solidarity with the fami-
lies of victims in light of those tragedies; 
(3) recommends that the Department of Jus-
tice’s National Institute of Justice commission a new 
study with focused data on missing and murdered 
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Indigenous women and girls to ensure up-to-date 
statistics are made public regarding the current 
state of the missing and murdered Indigenous 
women and girls crisis given 9 years have passed 
since their 2016 study was published; and 
(4) recognizes that, despite the positive efforts 
made, there is more work to be done to address this 
nationwide crisis. 
Æ 
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