Washington has some of the highest case numbers of missing and murdered Indigenous people in the country. New efforts backed by the state to help protect them are showing promising results.
Across the U.S. and Canada, it's believed thousands of Indigenous women and girls are kidnapped, murdered, or sexually assaulted every year but go unreported or uninvestigated.
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