In 1991, Alicia Lara, a Tarahumara woman, was found dead in Weitchpec, a small community on the Yurok reservation in Humboldt County in Northern California. Her death was ruled accidental under suspicious circumstances; her daughter Christina believes it was a homicide.

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https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Report-Murders-of-indigenous-women-california-15457912.php

https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/indigenouspeoples

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/california-crisis-missing-indigenous-women

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tarahumara

https://localnewsmatters.org/2020/08/04/pervasive-failure-to-investigate-report-finds-lack-of-scrutiny-in-cases-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-girls/

https://www.niwrc.org/sites/default/files/images/resource/a_year_1_project_report_on_missing_and_murdered_indigenous_women_girls_and_two_spirit_people_of_northern_california.pdf

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/california-crisis-missing-indigenous-women

https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/08/unsolved-missing-indigenous-women/

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