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Hallie Golden

‘People are angry’: US families feel let down by Indigenous missing unit

Meskee Yatsayte of Gallup, left, and Vangie Randall-Shorty of Farmington hold signs to bring awareness to missing and murdered Native Americans in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 11 October 2021.
Meskee Yatsayte of Gallup, left, and Vangie Randall-Shorty of Farmington hold signs to bring awareness to missing and murdered Native Americans in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 11 October 2021. Photograph: Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal/Albuquerque Journal/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock

One month after Ranelle Rose Bennett disappeared, agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services’ newly created missing and murdered unit (MMU) arrived at her house on the Navajo Reservation.

Her mother, Rose Yazzie, had initially reported the 33-year-old missing to Navajo Nation police after Bennett hadn’t shown up to her daughter’s 10th birthday party in June 2021 but said it took over a week for an officer to even file a missing report.

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