Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

Gov. Katie Hobbs announced Thursday that the new Turquoise Alert System is now online. The system is designed to help locate missing Indigenous or endangered persons.

A grand jury has indicted 20 people, a mental health business and a church in a widespread sober living home scheme that targeted Native Americans and defrauded Arizona’s Medicaid program out of $2.8 billion.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state.

A new alert system will be used for missing and endangered persons who do not meet the Amber and Silver Alert criteria, enabling a more rapid and coordinated response.

The FBI is sending extra agents, analysts and other personnel to field offices in 10 states including Arizona to help investigate unsolved violent crimes in Indian Country.

Tribal leaders say a coordinated alert system for missing Indigenous people could save lives in Arizona.

A San Carlos Apache teen who was reported missing and then found dead marks one of the latest tragedies as Native American communities continue to grapple with high rates of people being killed or going missing.

Attorney General Kris Mayes says a $6 million grant program will support tribal communities impacted by fraudulent sober living home schemes.

The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing highlighted calls to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Family members say 71-year-old Emerson Blackhorse has been missing for weeks after he was assaulted and later released from a Cottonwood hospital earlier this month.