GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Community Foundation launched a fund on Wednesday to assist Native Americans who are looking for their missing loved ones.
While Native Americans consist of just 6.7% of Montana’s population, they account for on average of 26% of the state’s active cases for missing people, the Great Falls Tribune reported.
Whitney Williams, who established the Snowbird Fund, said that many Indigenous families are forced to organize their own searches without outside help wh