CA SCR107

Designates May 2022 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month in California

Cites 5,712 missing and murdered indigenous cases reported to the National Crime Information Center in 2016

Notes that homicide is the second to seventh leading cause of death for indigenous women according to the CDC

Documents that indigenous women in some tribal communities face murder rates 10 times higher than the national average per U.S. Department of Justice study

Identifies California as having the sixth highest death rate of indigenous women in urban cities and the largest American Indian population of any state