House Committee on Appropriations

Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies

Hearing: Investigating the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 (10:00 AM)

2008 RHOB

Washington, D.C.

Note: This playlist does not contain the testimony of Bryan Newland or Richard "Glen" Melville. Most of the testimony from Patrice Kunesh is not included either.

WITNESSES

Panel one

Eugenia Charles-Newton

Law and Order Committee Chair and member of the Navajo Nation

Abigail Echo-Hawk

Executive Vice President at Seattle Indian Health Board and Director of the Urban Indian Health Institute and member of the Pawnee Nation

Cheryl Horn

Member of the Montana Missing Indigenous Persons Task and Member of the Assiniboine Tribe of Fort Belknap

Mary Jane Miles

Member of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee (NPTEC) and Member of the Nez Perce Tribe

Maulian Bryant

Wabanaki Alliance Incoming Executive Director and Member of the Penobscot Nation

Panel two

Bryan Newland

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs and citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community (Ojibwe)

Richard "Glen" Melville

Deputy Bureau Director, Office of Justice Services and member of Makah Tribe of Washington

Patrice Kunesh

Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans, at the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Daron Carreiro

Acting Director of the Office of Tribal Justice (OTJ) at the Department of Justice