A call for action across America for the crises of violence against Indigenous women and children

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Women listen to speakers during a ceremony to commemorate missing and murdered indigenous people in front of the Montana state Capitol in Helena, Mont., today.

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Marvin Weatherwax, state House member and business council member of the Blackfeet tribe, addresses a crowd gathered to honor missing and murdered indigenous people in front of the Montana state Capitol in Helena, Mont., today.

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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte addresses tribal members in front of the state Capitol in Helena, Mont., during a ceremony to commemorate missing and murdered indigenous people today.

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Family members of missing and murdered indigenous women in Montana gather in front of the state Capitol in Helena, Mont., today.

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a news briefing at the White House in Washington last week.

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Jeannie Hovland, the deputy assistant secretary for Native American Affairs for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, poses with a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women mask, in Anchorage, Alaska, while attending the opening of a Lady Justice Task Force cold case office in Anchorage, which will investigate missing and murdered Indigenous women.