Hundreds gathered Thursday in front of the Alaska Capitol Building to bring awareness to the violence that Native people are 10 times more likely to experience than the rest of the population.
On Thursday, hundreds of advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous people gathered in front of the Alaska Capitol Building in Juneau.
It was Anne Sears’ first MMIP event since starting her new job. Sears was the first Alaska Native woman to serve as state trooper. She, and then in April was appointed to a statewide leadership position tasked with investigating unsolved homicide and missing persons cases involving Alaska’s Indigenous people.
There are a number of unsolved missing persons cases in Juneau. She said in talking with local law enforcement, Tracy Day’s name keeps coming up. Day is a Lingít woman who went missing in Juneau in February of 2019. Her family and friends have used. Sears says she wants to bring new eyes and strategies to the table in cases like Day’s.
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