Native American families remain frustrated by high rates of violence, missing persons cases and unsolved killings. Many say they're being kept in the dark.
It was the winter of 2021 when Philbert Shorty’s family found his abandoned car stuck in the mud outside the small community of Tsaile near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. “We knew something happened from the get-go," said his uncle, Ben Shorty. “We couldn’t find any answers.”Family members reported the 44-year-old man missing. And for the next two years, they searched