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Not Our Native Daughters’ Native-led and survivor-led family-support model, rechecked October 18 at 11:09 a.m. Pacific, begins by listening to a family and following its direction, consent, cultural values and priorities. That support relationship is different from sending investigative information to the official agency responsible for a case.

Not Our Native Daughters uses MMIWR—Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives—for its family liaison work and separately names a limited MMIP Family Support Fund. Its current pages say assistance depends on capacity and funding; the fund focuses active or unresolved cases and requires an immediate family member or authorized requester plus case and relationship documentation. A request is not guaranteed, and a support form does not make the organization an owner of the case, a law-enforcement agency or an emergency dispatcher.

At the October 18 check, the BIA Missing and Murdered Unit portal displayed three featured profiles and marked each “Open.” That panel is not a national case count and cannot establish prevalence. BIA uses MMIP for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. This letter preserves each source’s term rather than treating MMIWR, MMIP, MMIW and MMIWG as interchangeable or suggesting that one organization speaks for every Tribal Nation or family.

Call 911 for immediate physical danger. For a missing child, contact local law enforcement first and then NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678). StrongHearts Native Helpline is available 24/7 at 1-844-7NATIVE by call or text, with online chat; phone service is available to people of all ages, internet-based services are unavailable to people younger than 13, and advocates cannot connect callers to 911. The BIA MMU accepts information about federal crimes and missing or murdered cases occurring in Indian Country through its official portal, BIAMMU plus a tip to 847411, 1-833-560-2065 or OJS_MMU@bia.gov; it is not a universal missing-child line or emergency dispatch.

No child, relative, case file, Tribal citizenship, home address, school routine or private family detail is named or pictured. This educational letter uses no organization logo or cultural, ceremonial or sacred imagery. Inclusion is informational, not an endorsement or promise of services.

Family-directed support follows consent. Investigative information follows the case’s official tip route.