Paul Cook: “Many students came to the Chemawa school for a quality, and culturally relevant, education in a safe environment.”

Four out of five Native women are affected by violence, with the U.S. Department of Justice finding that American Indian women face murder rates that are more than 10 times the national average.

I am looking forward to hearing what they are doing to combat the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

I encourage my colleagues that we do not shift away from the primary focus, which is the education of children.

I encourage my colleagues to avoid political distractions that would merely shift the focus away from the children...