During the first week of May, Faith Action Network remembered and honored missing and murdered indigenous women and people (MMIWP), as well as their relatives. FAN advocated for and helped win statewide alerts for missing indigenous people in 2022, and establishment of a MMIWP cold-case unit in 2023, which will bring more capacity to investigations.

We invite you to take the follow-up action of subscribing to Washington State Patrol email alerts about missing and murdered indigenous women and people. Receiving these alerts will give you an opportunity to hold these endangered persons and their families in prayer, as Rev. Linda Smith, retired Lutheran pastor and Tulalip elder, suggested in a recent meeting of our Interfaith Network with Indigenous Communities. Subscribe here.

You might also want to watch the powerful TEDxYouth talk “Running for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women” by Rosalie Fish, member of the Cowlitz and Muckleshoot tribes, youth athlete, and former intern with the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WSCADV). You can find it here, as well as a compilation of events and resources shared by WSCADV.