IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 353 
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2023, as the ‘‘National 
Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 2, 2023 
Mr. NEWHOUSE (for himself, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Ms. MATSUI, Ms. 
PORTER, 
Ms. 
NORTON, 
Ms. 
MCCOLLUM, 
Ms. 
BONAMICI, 
Ms. 
STANSBURY, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. HUFFMAN, Ms. 
LEGER FERNANDEZ, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. KILMER, Ms. SCHRIER, Mr. 
STANTON, Ms. HOYLE of Oregon, Mr. SOTO, Mr. LAMALFA, Mr. SMITH 
of Nebraska, Ms. SALAZAR, Mr. ROSENDALE, Mr. ARMSTRONG, Mr. 
STEWART, Mrs. RODGERS of Washington, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. GALLEGO, 
Mr. JOHNSON of South Dakota, Mr. COLE, Mrs. BICE, Mr. STAUBER, 
Mr. POCAN, Ms. DAVIDS of Kansas, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. SMITH of Wash-
ington, Ms. TOKUDA, and Mr. CASE) 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, 2023, 
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 
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lifetime, with 56.1 percent being a result of sexual vio-
lence and 55 percent being from intimate partner vio-
lence; 
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 
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Federal justice agencies and generating new guidelines 
for data sharing and law enforcement responses; 
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 their 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; 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 
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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 on missing and murdered 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 7 
years have passed since their 2016 study was pub-
lished; 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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