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Show Transcript TODAY TO HONOR THOSE VICTIMS. PERRIS: THAT IS RIGHT, AND THERE WERE DOZENS REPRESENTING THE OKLAHOMA TRIBES. TODAY THERE ARE A FEW OF THEM STILL HERE TODAY AND SOME JUST WRAPPED UP. IT IS TO REMEMBER THOSE LOST AND TALK ABOUT THE EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO SOLVE THEIR CASES. OUR WOMEN ARE DYING AND T ONES THAT AREN’T DYING ARE PROBABLY WISHING THEY WOUL PERRIS: A HARSH REALITY FOR INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN OKLAHOMA AND ACROSS THE U.S. WHETHER IT’S OUR WOMEN SHOWING UP WITH A BLACK EYE AND A BROKEN RIB, WHETHER THEY DON’T SHOW UP BECAUSE WE CAN’T FIND THEM OR WHETHER WE FIND THEM, AND THEIR SPIRIT JUST ISN’T HERE ANYMORE. PERRIS: DOZENS OF CITIZENS FROM DIFFERENT OKLAHOMA TRIBES RALLYING AT THE STATE CAPITOL WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDEGINOUS
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May 5 is National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women s Day. A new law passed this year aimed at bringing justice to indigenous victims and it made this year s event at the state Capitol especially emotional.
On Wednesday, dozens of families gathered to pray, sing and honor the missing and murdered people in their families.
Tribal leaders said with the ink barely dry on Ida s Law, there s a new sense of hope to bring justice to the victims and their families. She was a mother, she was a sister, she belonged to this land, her ancestors belonged to this land, said Alecia Onzahwah about her daughter Skye.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signs Ida s Law into law on April 20, 2021.
On Tuesday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a piece of legislation called Ida s Law. The bill is designed to help solve cases of missing and murdered Indigenous citizens in Oklahoma.
Senate Bill 172 is named after Ida Beard, a 29 year-old Cheyenne Arapaho citizen who went missing from El Reno in 2015. She has never been found.
The hope is that Ida s Law will direct more money to and federal coordination between the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Attorney s office and the U.S. Department of Justice when an Indigenous person goes missing.