2019 featured a continuing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people in Montana, but the state is taking steps to combat the issue.
Among the issues debated in the Montana Legislature was "Hanna's Act," legislation designed to address the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous persons (MMIP) and paving the way for the hiring of a missing persons specialist in the Montana Department of Justice.
While Governor Steve Bullock signed Hanna's Act into law in May, some Montana families still grieved the loss of loved ones and waited anxiously on word of their whereabouts.
The family of 18-year old Brittany Madplume of Browning confirmed with MTN that she was found dead in a vehicle on the morning of January 12th.
In April, family and friends gathered to reflect on the life of Jermain Charlo on her 24th birthday - her first since being reported missing almost 10 months earlier in Missoula.
And in June on the Blackfeet Reservation, family and friends of Ashley Loring Heavyrunner walked to remember her, two years to the day after she was last heard from.
- Plans announced for new missing Indigenous persons laws
- “Hanna’s Act” revived in Montana legislative committee
- Ashley Loring’s sister speaks at Senate committee hearing about MMIW crisis
- Ashley Loring still missing as 22nd birthday passes
- Hundreds gather in Lame Deer to remember Henny Scott
- Cause of death still not known in the case of Montana teen
- The search for Jermain Charlo continues
- “Face The State”: Missing and murdered indigenous women
- Senator Daines urges committee hearing about missing and murdered indigenous women
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous People community discussion held in Browning
