No one knows how many Indigenous women are murdered each year. That makes the deaths hard to stop.

 Abigail Echo-Hawk was a part of alittle team of researchers at the Seattle Indian Health Board that released a landmark study in 2018 on the amount of missing and murdered Indigenous women . The report not only hinted at the hidden magnitude of the matter — documenting quite 500 cases, predominantly within the Western us , stretching back to the 1940s — it also highlighted major shortcomings within the crime data wont to understand the difficulty .   In the absence of comprehensive government information, Echo-Hawk and her colleagues combed media reports, reached bent the families of victims across Indian Country and called community leaders and organizers to compile their study.   “ we'd like to know the bottom issue of the matter ,” said Echo-Hawk, the chief vice chairman the Seattle Indian Health Board and a citizen of the Pawnee Nation. “Where are we? What does the info look like? What do the leaders need?” Three years later, there's still no definitive co...