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Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people
No one knows just how many Indigenous girls or women go missing each year.
There are estimates. In 2019, 8,162 Indigenous youth and 2,285 Indigenous adults were reported missing to the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC, out of a total of 609,275 cases.
- Wendelin Hume
- The Conversation
But crimes against Native individuals often go unreported, and with …