Since the McGirt ruling, the number of criminal cases the Cherokee Nation Attorney General’s Office handles has increased from less than 100 cases to almost 4,000.
Thanks to the efforts of concerned people – many of whom have been impacted themselves – there is increasing awareness of the disproportionate incidence of missing persons and homicides among
The Not Invisible Act Commission held their first hearing at the Osage Casino in Tulsa on Tuesday to talk about the best way to respond when an Indigenous person is reporting missing or murdered, and they were doing so with the full support of the federal government.