The Alaska Department of Public Safety has released a first-of-its-kind Indigenous Persons Report, which identifies 280 missing people, the dates of their last contact, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearances.
The names are of Alaska Natives and American Indian people missing from their homes in Alaska.
While it's not a comprehensive list and only includes cases investigated by the Anchorage Police Department or Alaska State Troopers, the department hopes other police in Alaska will contribute data for quarterly updates.
Advocates have been pushing for authorities to better track the number of missing Indigenous people for years, and say the report is a step in the right direction.
Of the 280 missing in the report, 215 of the disappearances were ruled environmental, where a person may have disappeared in the vast Alaskan wilderness due to an accident, 30 were deemed not suspicious, 17 unknown, and 18 suspicious.
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