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Tribal leaders, families press California Assembly panel on missing and murdered Indigenous people
Summary
Tribal chairpersons and Assembly members testified at a California Assembly select committee hearing calling for sustained funding, better data collection, stronger tribal consultation and immediate law-enforcement response after decades of cold cases and recent failures in alert systems.
Assemblymember James Ramos convened the California State Assembly Select Committee on Native American Affairs for a multi-panel hearing focused on missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP), where tribal leaders described long-standing underresponse, named local cold cases and urged the state to increase resources and formal consultation.
Tribal leaders said decades of losses and recent cases demonstrate predictable breakdowns in response. Chairperson Antoinette Del Rio, of the California Valley Miwok community, said tribal education and public awareness remain limited: "...people don't even know what that is and that's sad especially in our education systems," and called for programs to ensure names of murdered and missing tribal members are publicly recognized. Chairperson Cheyenne Stone of the Big Pine Paiute Tribe of the Owens Valley…
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