‘People are angry’: US families feel let down by Indigenous missing unit [theguardian.com]

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) 4/4/2211:00 AM

By Hallie Golden, Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal/Albuquerque Journal/Zuma/Rex/Shutterstock, The Guardian, April 1, 2022

One month after Ranelle Rose Bennett disappeared, agents from the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services’ newly created missing and murdered unit (MMU) arrived at her house on the Navajo Reservation.

Her mother, Rose Yazzie, had initially reported the 33-year-old missing to Navajo Nation police after Bennett hadn’t shown up to her daughter’s 10th birthday party in June 2021 but said it took over a week for an officer to even file a missing report.

So, when the federal agents appeared, she said she remembers feeling hopeful that this could be the turning point for finally finding her daughter. They searched the house, she recalls, removing some things for evidence, and then promised to be in touch.

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