Tag: Yurok

US Marshals Service Partners With Yurok Tribe for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative

Northern California’s Yurok Tribe will work with the U.S. Marshals Service as a pilot location for the agency’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, according to a Feb. 21 press release by the U.S. Marshals Service. The Initiative is in accordance with the agency’s plans to “develop tribally-led collaborative partnerships to proactively examine public safety…


Tribe Grapples With Missing Women Crisis on California Coast

YUROK RESERVATION, Calif.—The young mother had behaved erratically for months, hitchhiking and wandering naked through two Native American reservations and a small town clustered along Northern California’s rugged Lost Coast. But things escalated when Emmilee Risling was charged with arson for igniting a fire in a cemetery. Her family hoped the case would force her…