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The AMBER Advocate, Issue 2 2020

Date Published
June 2020
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Newsletter, News and Announcement, Case Study

Celebrating 50 Years of American Indian Self-Determination

RED WING - CROW APSAROKE TRIBE, Staff Sgt. Brittinie Alvarez, 50th Security Forces Squadron, Jim Thorpe

Today marks a milestone in relations between the federal government and Indian nations. Fifty years ago today, President Richard M. Nixon delivered a special message to Congress announcing a new era of self-determination for American Indian tribes. “The time has come to break decisively with the past,” he said, “and to create the conditions for a new era in which the Indian future is determined...

Strengthening the Response to Missing, Murdered Native Americans

Katharine Sullivan at the Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered Native Americans Indians and Alaska Natives

In my work with the Department of Justice, I have heard far too many tragic stories of heartache and loss.  That is why I feel privileged to serve as Attorney General Barr’s designee as co-chair of an important interagency effort:  the Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives, or Operation Lady Justice.  Established by President Trump’s Executive Order 13898, Attorney General...

The AMBER Advocate, Issue 1 2020

Date Published
March 2020
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description

Finding the Missing in Indian Country

Juanita Adams
Juanita Adams

It seems prescient that Juanita Adams' Lakota name, Omani Wi, means "woman on the longest walk." Because her last journey took 30 years—until she reached her final resting place with her family, in South Dakota's Badlands on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, Juanita was 19 years old when she left Pine Ridge in 1978 to join the American Indian...

Law Enforcement Resources

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The AMBER Advocate, Issue 3 2019

Date Published
November 2019
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Report (Annual/Periodic), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material

Protecting Tribal Youth from Abduction

Date Published
August 2017
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Instructional Material (Programmed)

Safe Routes Program

Date Published
October 2017
Agencies
OJJDP-Sponsored
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Study/Research), Instructional Material (Programmed)