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Justice Department Fights for the Missing

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Since 2007, the U.S. Department of Justice has helped to lead the search for tens of thousands of missing Americans. Created by the Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, known as NamUs, catalogs photos, fingerprints, dental records and other forensic evidence in an effort to find the missing, identify human remains and close cases that, in many...

Operation Lady Justice Summary Fact Sheet

Date Published
June 2020
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description, Legislation/Policy Description, Instructional Material (Programmed), Factsheet
Agencies
OJP

TECHBeat, March 2018

Date Published
March 2018
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored

Finding the Missing in Indian Country

Juanita Adams
Juanita Adams

It seems prescient that Juanita Adams' Lakota name, Omani Wi, means "woman on the longest walk." Because her last journey took 30 years—until she reached her final resting place with her family, in South Dakota's Badlands on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

A member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, Juanita was 19 years old when she left Pine Ridge in 1978 to join the American Indian...