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As of 2016, the National Crime Information Center has reported 5,712 cases of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls. Strikingly, the U.S Department of Justice missing persons database has only reported 116 cases.  The majority of these murders are committed by non-Native people on Native-owned land. (Source: The National Crime Information Center)

Join the movement and learn more by going to Native Hope or Missing and Murdered Indigenous. Learn and share all you can. You can also go to the Burke Museum website to learn more about the truth of the Quileute Tribe vs the portrayal from the book.

In this episode of Reading Held Hostage we learn that Bella can’t do shit by herself. I mean i guess she can cook, but geez girl, have some self-esteem. We also discover that resident 16 year old Jacob Black could pull off being a 30 year old man who has been lifting his whole life. Let us know if him taking his shirt off for Bella after she got hurt made you become team Jacob.

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