ELY – “Although American Indian women and girls make up just one percent of the state’s population, from 2010 through 2018, eight percent of all murdered women and girls in Minnesota were American Indian. From 27 to 54 American Indian women and girls in Minnesota were missing in any given month from 2012 to 2020.”
Those statistics drew gasps of disbelief and hushed murmurs from an overflow crowd at the Grand Ely Lodge here this week as State Sen. Mary Kunesh cited findings from the Missing and M...