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Mary Risling stands near a photo of her missing sister, Emmilee Risling, at the family home on Jan. 21, 2022, in McKinleyville, Calif. Emmilee Risling, a 33-year-old college graduate and an accomplished traditional dancer with ancestry from three area tribes, was last seen more than four months ago walking across a bridge near End of Road, a far corner of the Yurok Reservation where the rutted pavement dissolves into thick woods. Her disappearance is one of five instances in the past 18 months where Indigenous women have gone missing or been killed in an isolated expanse of Pacific coastline between San Francisco and Oregon, a region where the Yurok, Hupa, Karuk and Wiyot people have co-existed for millenia. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Mary Risling stands near a photo of her missing sister, Emmilee Risling, at the family home on Jan. 21, 2022, in McKinleyville, Calif. Emmilee Risling, a 33-year-old college graduate and an accomplished traditional dancer with ancestry from three area tribes, was last seen more than four months ago walking across a bridge near End of Road, a far corner of the Yurok Reservation where the rutted pavement dissolves into thick woods. Her disappearance is one of five instances in…

February 21, 2022

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Tribe grapples with missing women crisis on California coast
February 21, 2022 11:35 a.m.

Tribe grapples with missing women crisis on California coast

A 2021 report by a government watchdog found the true number of missing and murdered Indigenous women is unknown due to reporting problems