FBI releases names of 170 missing Indigenous people in New Mexico and on the Navajo Nation

Crowd of people at the day of awareness event for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People in Window Rock in 2021. The FBI in New Mexico released the...

July 27, 2022
2:20 AM

Crowd of people at the day of awareness event for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People in Window Rock in 2021. The FBI in New Mexico released the names of 170 missing Indigenous people in an attempt to locate them and to encourage families to report their missing loved ones. The list, along with some photos, includes members of the Navajo Nation and New Mexico Pueblo tribes. The oldest case is that of Walcie Downing, who has been missing since Dec. 14, 1956. There was no picture with her name, although an online search turns up a black-and-white picture of her, smiling.

Arlyssa D. Becenti