The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) under the U.S. Department of Education (ED) launched Title VI investigations into the University of California (UC), Berkeley,...
The lack of governmental initiatives addressing these systemic issues can be attributed to the deep roots of colonialism in U.S. history, which makes this crisis difficult to fully eradicate — but there are rising grassroots efforts that help. The Murdered Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement has been a strong advocate for legal action and recognition against gender-based violence towards Indigenous women.
