Mendocino County Sheriff urged to hire tribal liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People cases

FORT BRAGG, 8/12/25 — Native American communities remain plagued by near-epidemic levels of unresolved violence, according to a report at an Aug. 2 conference in Fort Bragg.

Among the troubling statistics: More than half of Indigenous women experience sexual violence in their lives, and homicide is the second leading cause of death among Native people.