Paul Cook: “The time to do so is now.”

I hope the Chairman might join me in requesting a briefing from the Departments of the Interior and Justice to advance our efforts to help bring about a positive resolution to the missing, murdered Indigenous women crisis.

Eliminating or sharply curtailing the ability of tribes to carry out resource extraction and development on tribal lands would be the wrong approach.

In April, the House of Representatives passed the Violence Against Women Act, which included many key provisions to protect Native American women.

The trends of high rates of domestic violence against Native women continue, despite the enactment of two major laws since 2010.