Families of Alaska's murdered and missing Indigenous people shared their memories and hopes for justice on this national day of remembrance.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The exact number of murdered and missing Indigenous people may be hard to pinpoint, but a 2018 report from the Urban Indian Health Institute ranked Alaska fourth in the country for number of cases — and Anchorage the third highest city in the nation.
Aqpik Apok, Executive Director of the group Data for Indigenous Justice, said her organization has now documented more than 700 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Alaska. And every case, she said, has a name. An held event Friday in Anchorage gave family members a chance to speak about their loved ones that were murdered or missing. They spoke of the pain of never having closure, particularly in cases where no arrest was made.
“She would be my age today,” Haukaas said. “And to know that she didn’t have the opportunity to grow up, that we kind of lived these parallel paths, but hers was cut off because of violence.”
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