A jurisdictional maze and lack of resources contribute to an estimated 4,200 indigenous cases remaining unsolved. These gaps have led some Native American police to do the work of finding these people themselves.
Sgt. Kathleen Lucero poses for a picture inside her office at the Isleta Police Department in Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico, U.S., May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Adria Malcolm
“We got a hit,” said Lucero, a member of a traditional Isleta family, whose mother disowned her for a week when she decided to join the pueblo’s police 17 years ago because she wanted to become an "advocate" for her people. Bryan Newland, who heads the Bureau of Indian Affairs as U.S. assistant secretary of the interior, acknowledged the agency’s lack of resources. He said the BIA’s new missing and murdered unit was trying to better coordinate investigations between federal, state and local agencies and provide agents for investigations, when their help was wanted.
FBI data on missing and murdered Indigenous people shows little change from 2016 to the most recent report in 2021, when 1,554 people remained missing at the end of the year. "We would never be closed up. I think those days are days of the past," said Bujanda, who is helping the FBI develop a missing persons list for Native Americans, starting with New Mexico.
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