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2026 Violence Against Native People (VAWA, MMIW) News Stories

FBI sets $25,000 minimum reward for dozens of unsolved Indian Country cases (Seattle Times) 8/24/2026

Report: 20% of U.S. attorneys’ offices with Indian Country oversight are noncompliant with landmark Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples law (Native News Online) 8/11/2026

Help us track missing loved ones: Buffalo’s Fire launches community-sourced MMIP map (Buffalo's Fire) 8/5/2026

On the Blackfeet Reservation, families learn to search for their own missing relatives (Montana Free Press) 8/3/2026

Alaska Native communities prepare for man camps driven by new mining boom (High Country News) 7/23/2026

Federal funding cuts threaten Tribal victim services, new UIHI report finds (Native News Online) 7/15/2026

‘This is in your hands.’ | Native leaders urge lawmakers to take action on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis (Native News Online) 7/15/2026

Q&A: South Dakota’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous People liaison reflects as she departs (South Dakota Searchlight) 6/30/2026

‘It will always be the community’ that drives work to find missing Native Americans, speaker says (South Dakota Searchlight) 5/18/2026

U.S. Interior Department announces Indian Country Violent Crime Task Force (Source New Mexico) 5/6/2026

Indigenous people honor and raise awareness for relatives who are missing or have been killed (ABC News) 5/4/2026

Bill would give federal marshals authority to help Tribes find missing children (Native News Online) 2/17/2026

Trump administration targets Office on Violence Against Women with ‘consolidation’ (ICT) 1/29/2026

Montana to release MMIP awareness license plate (Char-Koosta News) 1/22/2026

Tribes seek better data, real accountability in MMIP cases ahead of Tribal consultation (Native News Online) 1/19/2026

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