MISSOULA — The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) crisis is inextricably connected with domestic violence, and that’s backed up by the U.S. Department of Justice.
According to a 2016 National Institute of Justice report, 83% of Native American and Alaska Native men and women have experienced violence in their lifetimes.
That’s more than 2.9 million people. A similar scale would be more than twice the population of Montana. Among that population, 38.2% of women and 16.9% men who were ...