Initiate Actions

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: An Action Plan for Alaska Native Communities

Alaskan Indigenous communities are encouraged to use this Toolkit as a guide for developing a plan of action that will include awareness, prevention, and intervention strategies. This toolkit can also be used as a guide for community organizing when someone goes missing. The suggestions in this Toolkit are not a checklist but rather a collection of ideas, tasks, and suggestions of what can be done within a community to support a family facing crisis — and ways to respond in an organized manner when one of our mothers, aunties, sisters or children have gone missing or is found murdered. This Toolkit will be continuously updated and will evolve as new resources are found and strategies are developed.

It’s important for Alaskan communities to be heard and take action to end the MMIP crisis! It’s essential to be involved at local, and tribal government levels to address this complex issue.

Example Resolutions Passed:

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Resolution 2021-09: Calling for an action plan to address the human rights crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and missing and murdered indigenous people.

Anchorage Assembly- A resolution of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly acknowledging the inherent responsibility of the Municipality of Anchorage to protect its most vulnerable populations.

CURYUNG TRIBAL COUNCIL - A resolution to begin addressing the disproportionally high rates of missing and murdered indigenous women of Curyung by developing a missing and murdered community action plan.

The Alaska State Legislature considers legislation for our state laws and passes an operating, capital, and mental health budget each year to fund our state services. Throughout each of these processes, there is an opportunity for every Alaskan voice to be heard through written and oral public testimony. It is important that YOUR VOICE is heard and YOUR STORIES are shared!

— Ways to Make Your Voice Heard

Write to your legislator. You can share your story, comment on any legislation going through the legislative process, and comment on the budgets. You can email your legislator by following this format: For Senators: Sen.FirstName.LastName@akleg.gov. For Representatives: Rep.FirstName.LastName@akleg.gov. Legislator Contact List here.

— Public Testimony. Each bill, including the budget, has an opportunity for public testimony. Public testimony will be noticed for each bill. To track bills and get notices on bill actions you can use the bill tracking system here.

— Learn About the Legislative Process

-Legislative Process in Alaska link.

-Steps in the Passage of a Bill link.

-Who Represents Me. Go to the Alaska Legislature website - (scroll to the bottom, to enter your information to find out who your legislators are, here.

- Committees and Members link.