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Bill to study ways to prevent violence against indigenous women to get vote

March 8, 2019 Leave a comment

Frances Tinajinnie went missing from her home in Klagetoh, Ariz., in 1973. Her body was found four days later more than 70 miles away in Gallup, N.M. She was 35 when she was killed, leaving behind three young children. PHOTO COURTESY OF DEBBIE NEZ-MANUEL

ep. Jennifer Jermaine, D-Chandler, sponsored House Bill 2570 to establish the Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls to find ways to reduce violence against indigenous women.