Tribe grapples with a crisis regarding missing women along California coast

In this aerial image taken from a drone, the city of Klamath, Calif., home of the tribal headquarters of the Yurok Tribe, dots the side of U.S. Highway 101 at sunrise. The tribe has issued an emergency declaration on human trafficking and missing women after five cases in 18 months of Indigenous women going missing or having been killed between San Francisco and the Oregon border. | Nathan Howard / AP

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif. — The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast.

Then, Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery.