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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSENATE RESOLUTION 726—EXPRESSING SUPPORT FOR THE DESIGNATION OF MAY 5,
2026, AS “NATIONAL DAY OF AWARENESS FOR MISSING AND MURDERED
INDIGENOUS WOMEN AND GIRLS”
Mr. DAINES (for himself, Ms. Cantwell, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Sheehy, Ms. Cortez Masto, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Hoeven, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Rounds, Ms. Smith, Mr. Gallego, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Kelly, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Klobuchar, and Ms. Hirono) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to:
S. Res. 726
RESOLUTION
Expressing support for the designation of May 5, 2026, as the
“National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls”.
Whereas, according to a 2016 study commissioned by the
Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice, more
than 4 in 5 (84.3 percent) American Indian and Alaska Native
women experienced violence in their lifetime, with 56.1
percent being a result of sexual violence and 55 percent
being from intimate partner violence;
Whereas, according to 2017 data, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention found homicide was the sixth-leading
cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women
and girls under 44 years of age, with murder rates more than
10 times the national average;
Whereas approximately 1,500 American Indian and Alaska
Native missing persons have been entered into the National
Crime Information Center index throughout the United States,
and approximately 2,700 cases of murder and nonnegligent
homicide offenses involving American Indian and Alaska Native
victims have been reported to the Federal Government's
Uniform Crime Reporting Program;
Whereas, according to a 2020 joint study completed by the
State of Hawaii and the Hawaii State Commission on the Status
of Women, 64 percent of human trafficking victims in Hawaii
identified as at least part Native Hawaiian;
Whereas, in 2019, Operation Lady Justice was launched
through Executive Order 13898 (84 Fed. Reg. 7521), which
established the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American
Indians and Alaska Natives aimed at mitigating the missing
and murdered Indigenous women (referred to in this preamble
as “MMIW”) crisis by improving the investigatory and
prosecutorial capabilities of Federal justice agencies and
generating new guidelines for data sharing and law
enforcement responses;
Whereas, in 2020, Savanna's Act (Public Law 116-165), which
directed the Attorney General to develop new law enforcement
protocols when investigating MMIW, and the Not Invisible Act
(Public Law 116-166), which initiated a joint commission
between the Department of the Interior and the Department of
Justice to combat violent crime within Tribal communities,
were signed into law;
Whereas, in 2021, the Department of the Interior created a
Missing and Murdered Unit within the Office of Justice
Services of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to expand cross-
departmental and interagency collaboration for the purposes
of investigating cases of missing and murdered Indigenous
people at the request of Tribal leadership; and
Whereas, in previous years, May 5th has been designated as
a day of remembrance for “Missing and Murdered Native Women
and Girls” in honor of the birth date of Hanna Harris, a
member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, who was murdered after
being reported missing by her family in Lame Deer, Montana:
Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate—
(1) expresses support for the designation of May 5, 2026,
as the “National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered
Indigenous Women and Girls”;
(2) calls on the people of the United States and interested
groups to—
(A) commemorate the lives of missing and murdered American
Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian women whose cases
are documented and undocumented in public records and the
media; and
(B) demonstrate solidarity with the families of victims in
light of those tragedies;
(3) recommends that the Department of Justice's National
Institute of Justice commission a new study on missing and
murdered Indigenous women and girls to ensure up-to-date
statistics are made public regarding the current state of the
missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls crisis given
10 years have passed since their 2016 study was published;
and
(4) recognizes that, despite the positive efforts made,
there is more work to be done to address this nationwide
crisis.