IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1094 
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2022, as the ‘‘National 
Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 6, 2022 
Mr. NEWHOUSE (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. ARMSTRONG, 
Mr. COLE, Ms. SCHRIER, Mr. JOYCE of Ohio, Mr. KILMER, Mr. MULLIN, 
Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. STAUBER, Mr. STEW-
ART, Mr. ROSENDALE, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mr. BENTZ, Mrs. BICE of Okla-
homa, Mrs. RODGERS of Washington, and Mrs. RADEWAGEN) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
Resources 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2022, 
as the ‘‘National Day of Awareness for Missing and 
Murdered Native Women and Girls’’. 
Whereas, according to a study commissioned by the Depart-
ment 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 Amer-
ican Indian and Alaska Native women and girls under 44 
years of age; 
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Whereas approximately 1,500 American Indian and Alaska 
Native missing persons have been entered into the Na-
tional 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 Pro-
gram; 
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 Mur-
dered 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 un-
documented in public records and the media; 
and 
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(B) demonstrate solidarity with the fami-
lies of victims in light of those tragedies; and 
(3) recognizes there is more work to be done to 
address this nationwide crisis. 
Æ 
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