Title: A resolution designating May 5, 2018 as the "National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls".
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Designates May 5, 2018, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 401 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 401

Designating May 5, 2018 as the ``National Day of Awareness for Missing 
                 and Murdered Native Women and Girls''.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2018

    Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Udall, Mr. 
    Gardner, Ms. Heitkamp, Mr. Crapo, and Mr. Rounds) submitted the 
   following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the 
                               Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Designating May 5, 2018 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 murder rate;
Whereas, according to the most recently available data from the Centers for 
        Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015, homicide--

    (1) ranged from the second to seventh leading cause of death for 
American Indian and Alaska Native females between 1 and 39 years of age; 
and

    (2) remained a leading cause of death for most American Indian and 
Alaska Native females between 40 and 64 years of age;

Whereas little data exist on the number of missing American Indian and Alaska 
        Native women and girls in the United States;
Whereas, on July 5, 2013, Hanna Harris, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, 
        was reported missing by her family in Lame Deer, Montana;
Whereas the body of Hanna Harris was found 5 days after she went missing;
Whereas Hanna Harris was determined to have been raped and murdered, and the 
        individuals accused of committing those crimes were convicted;
Whereas the case of Hanna Harris is an example of many similar cases; and
Whereas Hanna Harris was born on May 5, 1992: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) designates May 5, 2018, as the ``National Day of 
        Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls''; 
        and
            (2) calls on the people of the United States and interested 
        groups--
                    (A) to commemorate the lives of missing and 
                murdered American Indian and Alaska Native women and 
                girls whose cases are documented and undocumented in 
                public records and the media; and
                    (B) to demonstrate solidarity with the families of 
                the victims in light of those tragedies.
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