Title: A resolution designating May 5, 2022, as the "National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls".
Policy area: Native Americans

Summary:
This resolution designates May 5, 2022, as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 620 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 620

Designating May 5, 2022, 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

                              May 5, 2022

Mr. Daines (for himself, Mr. Tester, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Moran, Mr. Schatz, 
Ms. Smith, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Cramer, Ms. 
    Cantwell, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Rounds, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Grassley) 
 submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Designating May 5, 2022, as the ``National Day of Awareness for Missing 
                 and Murdered Native Women and Girls''.

Whereas American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.5 times more likely to 
        experience violent crimes and at least 2 times more likely to experience 
        rape or sexual assault crimes compared to any other group of people in 
        the United States;
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 2017, homicide was the sixth leading 
        cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native females between 1 
        and 44 years of age;
Whereas the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women released reports 
        finding that 64 percent of trafficking survivors in Hawaii identified as 
        being Native Hawaiian;
Whereas little data exists on the number of missing American Indian, Alaska 
        Native, and Native Hawaiian women 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, 2022, 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, Alaska Native, and Native 
                Hawaiian women whose cases are documented and 
                undocumented in public records and the media; and
                    (B) to demonstrate solidarity with the families of 
                victims in light of those tragedies.
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