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INTRODUCTION Indigenous women and girls, including Policymakers have developed initiatives Native Hawaiians, experience violence at in response to the crisis of murdered and much higher rates than other populations missing Indigenous women and girls (MMI- in the United States. Native communities WG) including the White House procla- across Turtle Island (The North American mation of National Day of Awareness for continent) have mobilized for governmen- Missing and Murdered Native Women and tal resources and systemized responses to Girls in 2019 and Executive Order 13898 prevent violence against Indigenous wom- that creates task forces for missing and en and girls. The leading causes of death murdered Indigenous peoples to address for Indigenous girls ages 1-19 are (in order) concerns around data collection, policies, unintentional injuries, suicide, and homo- and investigative responses. Since these cide; whereas the leading causes of death legislative milestones, more than 12 states for white girls ages 1-19 are unintentional have designated task forces to research injuries, suicide, and cancer (CDC, 2016). MMIWG.This year (2022) marked the first Indigenous women and girls are 10 times year that Kanaka Maoli (the Indigenous, more likely to be murdered than women anachronous peoples of Hawaii) were from other ethnic groups (UIHI, 2018), are formally recognized by a United States 2.5 times as likely to be raped than white President as belonging to the Indigenous women, and are more likely to be raped populations disproportionately impacted by by a perpetrator of a different race than interpersonal and systemic violence that other racial groups (Bachman et al., 2008). leads to Native women and girls being mur- A shocking 84.340 of Indigenous women dered and missing. experience violence in their lifetime (Rosay, 2016), v e / MENEM