California is home to the largest Native American population in the country with more than 160 tribes. The state ranks 5th for the country's most cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people. It's been described as an epidemic, an emergency and a crisis by California tribal leaders desperate for change.
California is home to the largest Native American population in the country with more than 160 tribes. The state ranks 5th for the country's most cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people. It's been described as an epidemic, an emergency and a crisis by California tribal leaders desperate for change.
The case of a missing KC-area Native American teenager, Quana Big Spring, highlights what advocates describe as shortcomings of a federal law designed to improve the response to these types of cases.
The KSHB 41 I-Team details the story of a missing teen and digs into the National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis taking place right here in Kansas City.