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California Assembly designates May 2025 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Month
Summary
The Assembly adopted ACR 39, sponsored by Assemblymember James Ramos, to designate May 2025 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Month. Supporters called for improved data, interagency coordination and funding; the resolution passed unanimously, 67-0.
The California State Assembly on April 28 adopted Assembly Concurrent Resolution 39, designating May 2025 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) Awareness Month and urging renewed attention to violence, disappearances and gaps in data for Native American communities.
Assemblymember James Ramos, chair of the Legislative Native American Caucus and the resolution's lead author, said the statistics are alarming and require action. “California is home to the largest Native American population in the United States,” Ramos said, and he…
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