MMIP/MMIR Web Application

The Missing Murdered Indigenous People/Relatives (MMIP/R) Crisis Intervention and Containment Plan outlines a comprehensive approach to tackling modern-day slavery, focusing particularly on the issues faced by Indigenous communities. With over 50 million people trapped in modern slavery globally, the document highlights the disproportionate impact on women, children, and marginalized groups such as migrants and individuals of lower socioeconomic status. A staggering 80% of survivors face re-victimization if they lack a safe environment to return to. Despite various efforts to educate and mitigate the risks, there remains a significant need for improved solutions to support survivors in their reintegration into society.

The Intervention proposes leveraging ethical technology, particularly AI, to enhance and scale critical resources for survivors. This includes improving access to legal, financial, psychological, and social services, as well as strengthening the ecosystem of service providers through better communication, data sharing, and coordination. Training and supporting existing organizations to effectively work with survivors is also emphasized.

The intervention addresses the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) crisis, proposing the development of a centralized database and application. This tool aims to track, manage, and respond to MMIP cases with the help of AI for data analysis and predictive analytics. The application features include multilingual support, real-time tracking, and integration with tribal crisis response teams. It emphasizes culturally competent support services and community engagement to ensure the solution is both effective and respectful of Indigenous cultures.

The Application also addresses the historical context of Indigenous peoples, including the impacts of colonization, termination policies, and the Trail of Tears. These historical injustices have led to profound socioeconomic and health disparities. Addressing these requires a multifaceted approach, including data sovereignty, comprehensive data collection, ethical practices, and community engagement. Efforts to reclaim and revitalize Indigenous data are crucial, alongside promoting cultural sensitivity among researchers and ensuring data representation accurately reflects Indigenous experiences.

Furthermore, the Application highlights the need for Change to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and the importance of protecting Native American children by preserving their cultural identities. It calls for increased funding for tribal services and improved state-tribal policies and cooperation. The ICWA's role in promoting the stability and security of Indian families is emphasized, with an advocacy agenda to ensure its effective implementation and protection against legal challenges.

The proposed application presents a holistic solution that integrates technology, community involvement, and policy reform to address modern-day slavery and support Indigenous communities in overcoming the systemic challenges they face and could be applied to any community willing to combat violence, systemic failures, linkage to support resources and more!

The Missing Murdered Indigenous People/Relatives (MMIP/R) Crisis Interventions Web-Based Application is a comprehensive solution designed to address the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) crisis through the use of technology and community collaboration. The application aims to create a centralized database for tracking and managing MMIP cases, utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for data analysis and case management. This database is globally segregated by country, state, and tribal jurisdiction, ensuring thorough documentation and verification before data integration with state, federal, and national databases. The application includes features like pattern recognition, predictive analytics, and automated alerts to help identify trends and high-risk areas. It also supports multilingual access, including Indigenous languages, and provides geolocation services for real-time tracking of search efforts.

In addition to the application, the creation of Search and Rescue (SAR) teams is a critical component of the response strategy. These teams are envisioned to operate under a First Nations and Native American FEMA Response Program model, which would include inter-tribal crisis response teams trained in disaster response, cultural competency, and crisis counseling. This program would be supported by a dedicated FEMA Response Center accessible to Indigenous communities on both sides of the US-Canada border. Extensive training for the SAR teams would cover disaster response protocols, MMIP awareness, and culturally competent mental health support. Collaboration with various agencies, resource allocation, and community engagement are emphasized to ensure effective and culturally sensitive responses to crises involving Indigenous peoples.

The SAR teams would work in conjunction with MMIP advocacy groups to ensure proper identification and reporting of MMIP cases during crises. The program aims to facilitate seamless coordination between American and Canadian Indigenous communities and agencies, promoting resilience and unity among these communities. Regular preparedness drills, cross-border collaboration, and continuous evaluation and improvement of the program are key aspects to maintain its effectiveness and responsiveness. The Application is scalable and has the potential to scale to Global accessibility through the use of AI and the world wide web. 

The key to the application is to remove systemic barriers to reporting for Indigenous People. Barriers to reporting are evidenced by the UIHI (Urban Indigenous Health Institute National Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. There were counted to be over 5,000 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women but only 147 of them were registered in Colonial System Missing Persons Database. Staggeringly, barriers to reporting veil the problem with a cloak of invisibility. The entire East Coast was derelict a response to the UIHI MMIW Record Requests on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People. (See: https://www.uihi.org/wp-conten...)

Follow up on the Records Requests done by the Urban Indigenous Collective (see: https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/...) discovered that no such Data is being collected on Indigenous People. This application would end the Data Crisis on Indigenous People. 

Indigenous Data Sovereignty likely poses the biggest risk to the proposed application, but by including Data Sovereignty experts on the proposed project management team, to ensure ethical and responsible use of the MMIP/R Application by putting it directly in the hands of Indigenous People to ensure barriers to reporting Missing and or Murdered Relatives are eliminated, and by providing access to Jurisdictional tools within the Application, and providing guided structure to access reporting to county, state, and federal Missing Persons Databases, the application intends to remove risk of discrimination against Indigenous people in the reporting process. The UIHI (Urban Indigenous Health Institute) found that only 147 of over 5,076 Missing Indigenous People were actually in the Missing Person Database. The MMIP/R Application seeks to eliminate these barriers to reporting while offering comprehensive supports during the Reporting process while impacting Data reporting on Missing and or Murdered Indigenous People, which currently is not required or mandated by the US government, or by States. Therefore, States like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, or any East Coast US States, do not even possess Indigenous Category for Race of Missing Persons so it is impossible to assess the actual scope of the Crisis. Another truly serious issue is that the Federal Recognition Process of Indigenous People creates Tribal statuses, the only of which, Federally Recognized, is actually counted. Meaning that, of over 900+ Tribes in the USA, only 576 are Federally Recognized and actually receive supports. Tribes with State Recognition, or non-statused tribes, are even more at risk than any other group because they have experienced Genocide, Effects of Colonization, Inter and Multigenerational Trauma, and some of which have been disbanded with the lasting effects of Land Dispossession, no Indian Health Services, and forced to rapidly assimilate with the effects of Inter and Multigenerational Trauma, which they have never been compensated for historically. These "other than Federally recognized tribes" are legitimately the far most easily extorted and exploited, endangered Peoples. As they have experienced termination plans against them, Inter and Multigenerational Trauma, and have a strong predisposition for every conceivable Physical and Mental Health risk from enduring Termination Era, Boarding School Era, Trail of Tears, Forced Removals, etc. Lastly, these "other than federally recognized tribes" also do not have any protections from continued forced Removals because they do not "qualify" for ICWA protections under the law and the Child welfare systems do not categorize the Children as Native, irrespective of lineal descent, irrespective of DNA and Genetics, irrespective of the Tribal Status. These individuals have legitimately been "White-Washed," and the Native Ancestry White-Washed from their very blood despite their lineal descent, or the Geneva Conventions, to have the right to biological existence, biological inheritance, and the right to exist, survive, and thrive through to their progeny's right to inherit their Native Ancestry. It is in my professional opinion, that the Federal Recognition violates Indigenous Rights and forced termination on Indigeniety. 

This solution ultimately can be applied to serve any community with barriers to accessing supports for risk areas associated with being a Missing Person. However, I have tailored this project to serve a highly vulnerable marginalized group- Indigenous People at Risk of becoming MMIP/R, at Risk to Violence, at Risk to Systemic Abuse or Neglect due to Discrimination in reporting processes. It leverages technology and AI to reduce interference of discrimination against the marginalized community which negatively impacts outcomes to MMIP/MMIR cases, and it will help to reduce Jurisdictional ambiguity related to Tribal and County, State, and Federal Government, and Missing Persons Cases and provide navigational guidance to Reporters, in addition to culturally competent Resources for Victims of Violence, Survivors, and is a Holistic approach to containing the MMIP/R Crisis. Therefore, the Application Solution serves the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, and their Relatives to what to do when a Relative goes missing. The Application also provides linkages and support resources to Survivors of MMIP/R related Violence. Domestic Violence, Suicide, Intimate Partner Violence, Homicide, Victim Support Services in both Tribal and Governmental Offices for Victims Compensation and Services. Linkages to Indigenous Centric Mental Health Support Services, Case Management, Jurisdictional Navigation, tiered by Country, Tribal Territory, State, and Local Government Resources, providing a never before this solution opportunity to reach Victims and Victims Families with Comprehensive intervention to the MMIP/R Crisis. 

For Victims of MMIP/R Violence, which Native Americans experience at 10 times the National Average, this comprehensive use of the most current technology to create a support network for direct intervention on Risk areas associated to becoming a Missing and or Murdered Indigenous Person. Therefore, linkages to financial victims support services, safe housing opportunities, State and Tribal Resources, linkages to Mental Health support services for Crisis Management, Case Management for high at Risk individuals, the directness of the putting this application in Victims of Violence hands promises to directly intervene on the MMIP/R crisis by Navigating users to Safety, Safe Places, Primary and Community Support Services. 

As a clearinghouse for support resources, the application promises to be unlike any other direct support services for Indigenous People. Linked Professionals, and Project Managers of the Program can provide Clinical Recommendations on cases for Medical, Nursing, Clinical Social Work, and offers Peer Support Services. 

The Sar Team Coordination Efforts will involve expert professionals such as Medical Examiners, Nurses, Doctors, Trackers, Search and Rescue Experts, Technology Experts, Drone Experts, Animal Experts, Technical Writers, and a host of Field Experts who can offer Expert opinions on cases. 

The creation of a single page Missing Persons Flyer that meets the standard template for reporting to National Databases and Missing Indigenous People Databases, is unique. There is currently no one producing Missing Murdered Indigenous People Flyers in the East Coast. 

My team is composed of Indigenous People and Allies to Native American Peoples. The team is also open to Allies of Indigenous People and Interdisciplinary Expertise related to the Crisis. The majority of the team are Survivors of dynamics directly inflicted by the MMIP/R Crisis. Three of the team are Survivors of MMIP/R violence and Human Trafficking. And, as an Indigenous Centric organization, Bhavana Consultation, LLC defers to Indigenous Elders, Tribes, Survivors, and Firekeepers as well as other Indigenous Victim support organizations as apart of kinship communities with stakeholders in solving the MMIP/R Crisis. Incorporating Indigenous Voices, Intertribal, Inter-organizational partnership is a major part of bringing redress to Risk areas associated with the Crisis. We legitimately are the Survivors of Inter and Multigenerational trauma associated to the Native American Holocaust and Genocide, and the MMIP/R Crisis of Violence against Indigenous People. 

The team grows by field expertise related to the MMIP/R Crisis. So the management team is still growing. The Case Management of which relies on Indigenous Centric Culturally Competent support interventions for areas of risk associated to the increasing risk and danger via navigational supports to navigate to Safety. Suicidality, Mental Health Problems, Acute/Complex, inter/and Multigenerational trauma, Housing, Community Support Organizations will all be linked within the application. My team is unique in that it has a Survivor-Based Victim Centered approach to providing specific interventions to risk areas associated with becoming MMIP/R. The Survivors voices is what compels the Interventions, from Survivor Experience making it highly specialized to the Interventions recommended to help Victims Survive.

For example, if you are homeless and living in tent, and your biggest risk is safe housing, the AI can link resources for applicants to apply for safe housing. If your biggest area of risk is unaddressed Acute, or Complex Trauma, (more common to Indigenous People), then the Application will link you to Trauma-Informed Care, or Substance problems to Substance Abuse Programs using Indigenous Centric, GONA (Gathering of Native Americans) Curriculum and Positive Parenting Classes where needed. Each case will be assessed for Presenting and Persistent Problems and Managed by a Highly skilled Professional Inter or Multidisciplinary team. 

Also, linkages to Tribes, Tribal Organizations, Tribal Support Services by Territory. Assisting Native Americans through duel Navigation of the systems involved on both the Tribal side, and the State/County, or local government side. Therefore, Inter Tribal organization and communication should work together to create a Kinship community, so support services become more accessible to Native Peoples. The foundation of the Project team currently has male and female Indigenous People, Two Spirits, Survivors of MMIP/R Violence, therefore also has Survivor's Wisdom. It has Indigenous Specialists, and Trauma Survivors, and Native Allies who wish to help MMIP/R People in the face of Crisis. 

The current Project Management Team was created to assess feasibility of the idea of a web application designed to intervene on systemic barriers facing reporters of Missing and Murdered and Indigenous People and Tribal Communities. The Team has focused on conceptualization, technology included in the Application, and Collection of Data related to the MMIP/R Crisis, and Production of Missing Indigenous Persons Flyers for Missing Indigenous Peoples from our Indigenous communities. The proposal attached to this document as the MMIP/R Application web link, defines the operational goals and was based on Market Research completed by the Kiowa Nationals, Jan Riverson, and Joy Macko on the Project Management Team. The tech team has deferred to field specific experts on the creation and development of this application, considering the costs to produce the technology and begin the Data infrastructure to house the project and honor Data Sovereignty of Indigenous people. We have created a campaign for SAR Team Patrol, and a web-based Application and have it shared to the world wide web. Additionally, governing documents have been created to directly intervene on the Risk areas associated to higher risk of becoming MMIP/R. 

In lieu of Data Sovereignty, and the absence of Data on the MMIP/R crisis, the collection and management of this sensitive Data is critical to the project. Because of the absence of Data, a Centralizing agency and infrastructure is critical to collecting and centralizing Data for the Crisis, in an Indigenous Centric eco-environment, under Indigenous Sovereignty values and principles will help us better understand the MMIP/R Crisis, and to create effective interventions on this Crisis. We are applying to MIT Solve to intervene on Modern Day Slavery, Human Trafficking, Equity for a Marginalized Community, partnership opportunities, expertise from fellowship with Solve, further funding opportunities, technical assistance, and any other guidance or assistance MIT Solve may be able to provide under this Challenge Solution. There is no way to define the MMIP/R Crisis, until we can collect Data on the crisis. We need a highly structured approach to maintain Indigenous Data Sovereignty, to learn more about the Crisis itself. Many of the victims families claim Indigeneity, but for various reasons related to the recognition process do not have access to support services. Here, we as Indigenous People, define Indigenous by lineal descent from a Tribe Native to the Americas. 

By tackling the issue of who is Indigenous, and using Native American lineal Descent as the method of determination, we can address the 400+ Ghost tribes, who are the most vulnerable to the highest risk of MMIP/R Violence. This would remove discrimination against Native Americans and open up services provisions to the single most vulnerable people in the Indigenous Communities, those who have been white-washed, have experienced Data Genocide, those who were born Native, but die White before their Indigeneity even stops expressing from their genetics. This is critical, because it is Tribes who have been disbanded, or are other than federally recognized, who are most at Risk to MMIP/R Violence as they have experienced Erasure. 

Additionally, this issue is a human rights issue. The government is not soon to admit to active genocide against Indigenous People through it's termination era developed Recognition process, which legitimately ear marks Tribes and Indigeneity for Termination via blood quantum laws. They are slow to assume responsibility of the Effects of Colonization on Indigenous People. And, Truth, Healing, and Reconciliations are slow moving. By crowd sourcing we can keep the Intervention in the hands of Indigenous People. We can build capacity amongst Tribes, Territories, and interact with local, state, and government in a "safe place" meaning within the application which creates documentation.

The main reason the MMIP/R Application was conceptualized is for the ethical utilization of current technology to increase and expand capacity of Indigenous People to contain and intervene on the MMIP/R Crisis. To create and manage Sovereign Data, with Indigenous Values and Principles, and to better understand impacts of the MMIP/R Crisis on Tribal Communities and Communities at large catalyzing immediate change based on capacity of providing Navigational support to Tribal and Local Governmental process involved with Missing persons via removing barriers from Indigenous People on reporting, navigating jurisdiction, and providing resources for those impacted by the Crisis while providing Culturally Competent support resources to mitigate the Risks associated with MMIP/R in the areas of Mental Health and Wellness, including medical, physical, mental health for Trauma and Suicide, and substance abuse linkages to Indigenous treatment providers, linkages to case management for Survivors, Indigenous Centric housing, for homelessness, and providing a formal infrastructure for Tribes  and Tribal members to interact with the Colonial systems of intervention, support, registration in Missing Persons systems removing known barriers to reporting. There is no known system to bring redress to this domain that this author is aware of directly prior to the concept of this web application that results in standardized Data Collection and Management process, and produces a standardized Missing Person Poster for Indigenous Peoples or Tribes in association with Search and Rescue Team organization aimed to track and monitor the cases making it an innovative first of it's kind. 

This application could potentially lead victims to Safety and Interventions unlike any other intervention available at this time to Victims of MMIP/R Violence. Given that cell phones are free through government sponsored support services such as Lifelink, and Safety Link, the MMIP/R Application can be downloaded onto a cell phone and put accessibility directly in the hands of victims of Violence who cannot decipher how to move to safety, from the situations that they are in, and navigational support services between jurisdictions is essential to the successful navigation of these situations. 

Because there is nothing like this Web Based Application in existence, and because Indigenous People are so marginalized, and under-represented in general society, the risk of human trafficking for them exceeds every other race. The goal is to interrupt the process by putting navigational guidance in the hands of Victims. Many times, victims are without any resources, have been over criminalized, black-balled from colonial assistance, Victims of forced Removal of their children, forced into black markets to make monies, and sex and labor trafficking for Indigenous, Mexicana, Central Americans, and South Americans who migrate across the continent looking for safety and opportunity are forced into black markets, extorted, exploited, and otherwise made unsafe. 

It is our expectation that providing a technology to level the barriers to reporting from Indian Country, and by providing navigational guidance to both jurisdictions of Tribal and Local Government via providing an infrastructure solely for this purpose and placing it directly in the hands of Indigenous peoples/Tribal members/tribes, that more cases will be handled properly, receiving the appropriate reports, and following the courses determined for what to do when a loved one goes missing, particularly in the first 72 hours when a loved one goes missing in both Tribal and Colonial Systems for reporting Missing Persons. The production of a Missing Person's flyer based on National Missing Persons Database requirements for Missing or Murdered Indigenous People in context to the crisis is not occurring anywhere on the East Coast. Data Collections and Management either with current MMIP Databases or solely independent, will create a new pool of Data never before obtained and create Data Accountability for MMIP/R Peoples and Tribes.  

This application has the potential to reconcile the Data Crisis in Indian Country. By creating the first ever Data Collection on the MMIP/R Crisis of Violence against Indigenous People. So, first of it's kind to collect real data about real indigenous people, first Data on MMIP/R Crisis, not based on Federal Recognition Status, and First direct intervention intended to change outcomes for MMIP/R Victims of Violence. 

In addition by providing Indigenous Peoples with real resources to mitigate the risk in their own situations, by providing access to tailored list of community support services, empowers the Victims of MMIP/R Violence to intercede on their own situations. To find and seek out the resources that they need to change the outcome of their situation. Additionally, for those who have gone Missing or Murdered the SAR Team arm of the Application creates a pool of Professionals who dedicate their time to help solve MMIP/R Cases. This part of the Application is critical to case follow up, case management, and accountability of all parties involved in Search and Rescue. By Creating SAR Team communications, and Infrastructure concurrent to the Application, linked within the Application, should improve communication and advance Search and Rescue attempts by linking professionals with a Forum to communicate about the SAR efforts.

Creating a forum to communicate and build capacity in areas of Search and Rescue, via the Application, will enhance SAR Team efforts. Bear Clan Patrols are being used in other areas of Indian Country effectively, already. By Connecting to the Application we centralize data, protecting Indigenous Data, maintaining Data Sovereignty, and increase communications in relationship to MMIP/R Cases. 

Impact goals for the MMIP/R Application are removing barriers to Reporting MMIP/R cases, mitigate risk areas associated to MMIP/R via technical, jurisdictional, linkage to Support Services, creation or linkage to a Sovereign Database (Sovereign Bodies Institute, or MMIWP Database), or Create our own Sovereign Database for the East Coast USA, link Tribal Governments, Magistrates, and Officials, Tribal Members and Organizations to the Application, to Produce East Coast BlackHawk Bear Clan Patrol Missing Persons Flyers to the MMIP/R communities across Indian Country, and in Local Governments, while providing Navigational Guidance to the report process. To improve Data Practices related to Indigenous People and Communities, to Manage Data and Technology Ethicallly, to intervene on the Data and Paper Genocide against Native Americans from White and Black-washing of Indigenous Peoples and Tribes (from forced rapid assimilation required of Terminated Tribal Citizens, Descendants, and disbanded Tribes, therefor intervening directly on the Paper Genocide, creating Data accountability for Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. The goal of increasing accountability associated to Data of Genetically, and Lineal Descendants of Indigenous Peoples in areas wherein their Human Rights have been violated in the discriminatory Federal Recognition Process, which unfairly requires excessive documentation from active Genocide Victims, to prove Indigeneity using a tool of Genocide, Blood Quantum Laws. These Laws interrupt Natural Inheritance, violate the Rights of Indigenous People Right to Exist, the Natural inheritance of Ancestry, and the Right of Progeny to belong to their own Race. These laws are exclusive to Native Americans, making them discriminatory based on Race. No other Race is obscured from their own Ancestry, their own Progeny, and the effects of which force Genetically still Indigenous People to be Erased from Existence via Erasing their Indigenous Identity in an act of Genocide, Ethnocide, and Culturacide. Effectually, Quantum Laws are an infrastructural process born out of the Termination Era, wherein as a tool of Erasure, forces Tribes, Peoples, and Indigeniety to Terminate, or become Extinct, after a certain "Blood Measurement," reduces them to a zero and this happens even when Genetically the person is Identifiable as Native American via descendancy, and Lineal Descent.They are forced to rapidly assimilate into other Race Categories when Born Indigenous, Raised Indigenous, and forced to die White, Black, Hispanic, or another Race Category. Furthermore, the Erased "Native American Ghost People" suffer the Biological Inheritance of Inter and Multigenerational Trauma from the Effects of Colonization and Genocidal Practices against Indigenous Peoples, but never receive Truth, Healing, and Reconciliations in the form of Indian Health Services, and or Government Restitutions set forth for Indigenous Peoples. The fact that the "Native American Ghost People exists" also impacts all known Statistics for Indigenous People erasing the True Data, by forcing the Indigenous People into other than Indigenous Census Groups. In an effort to Create the first Data Collections on Indigenous Peoples, not based on Government Recognition Status, but rather a Sovereign Native American definition of Indigenous, we will effectually for the first time ever, be able to collect unskewed Data.

Technological innovations are so robust in the Era we are living in, and accessibility to Resources are at an all time high, and can only get better with Blockchain, AI, Crypto, and innovations in Green Energy and Climate Justice Initiatives, Water and Land Defense and Management of Green Space by Indian Territories and Tribes, as funded through the US Dept. of Energy, Tribal funding in these areas are overflowing with Monies that many times Tribes are under-capacity to obtain for a plethora of varied reasons, Water and Land works in Housing Projects in tandem to Eco-Friendly, Green Initiatives, to cultivate Biodiversity, grow plant medicines and solutions that can mitigate climate issues, and provide other Indigi-friendly interventions are areas of redress that this author is truly motivated to implement in Projects developed to better and fortify the Indigenous Communities in Indian Territory, and on Tribal Lands and water projects. This MMIP/R Application project is inherently green and aims to minimize "paper" or physical products by being an e-based application. There will still be need for uploads into the application, making a web-based application with a mobile access and version to streamline paper products to PDF or JPG, PNG, or other e-based image or documents, for upload into the electronic system and a safe digital database to house these items, and then transform them to a standardized Missing Person Template format from the MMIP Toolkit produced by National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC) approved standardized template to be produced by the application on behalf of the BlackHawk Bear Clan Patrol SAR Team electronically in a single page format, ensuring max shareability on social media sources. For this to become operationalized, many technologies will combine to retrieve Bolos on Missing Persons from local govt Resources, and the Application will link to database(s), and AI and, Blockchain, and other Data Safety, Security, and Sovereignty principles will defer to Web Developers and Digital Architects will create proposals on how to best move forward to utilize the latest technologies to do the best service to our impact goals, and project goals, to intervene on the MMIP/R Crisis, as well as the Data Crisis in Indian Country. Additionally, we will minimally need an Android and Iphone version of the Application and a Mobile and Desktop Version. However, this web-based Application would be the only source of MMIP/R Missing Persons Flyers in the East Coast, and hopefully, the system of SAR Team Builds could ideally happen across Indian Country, so we could get real numbers on the Data Crisis of MMIP/R Violence against Indigenous people. 

There are currently eight people on the MMIP/MMIR Application Project: one Data Sovereignty Expert, Jesse Grey Eagle, to consult on Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Dr. Guia Apostle-Calicdan, Dept. Head of Stockton University Victimology Department, to consult on MMIP/R Victimology; Dr. Cynthia Chapman-Dorsey, my LCSW Clinical Supervisor, Native American, RN, LCSW, PhD, Veteran; Dr. Laura Williams, MD., MPH, Acjachemem Tribal Member, Indigenous health expert; Twin Kiowa Nationals, Jan Riverson and Joy Macko, MMIP/MMIR Survivors whose Digital Expertise consults on technology, AI, digital marketing and media, AR/VR/XR, as the founding members of my Tech Team. Myself as Subject Matter Expert, Policy and Legislation Analyst, and Technical Writer. Gregorio Kishketon, BIA VA Director, Kickapoo Elder represents Elders voice to the Project team. Janet Smith, Trauma Survivor and Native American Allie; and Johnny BlackHawk, CoFounder of the East Coast BlackHawk SAR Team, Native American, Tracker. 

The project management team was formed about a year ago, when the intervention was first conceived by Project Lead Dani Cranmer. The first recruited voices were the Survivors voices of the MMIP/R Crises, Jan and Joy, who immediately joined the efforts to conceptualize the intervention along with Dani Cranmer, as Subject Matter Expert, and Survivor of MMIP/R Violence. Jesse Grey Eagle was recruited in lieu of the development of the Application including Indigenous Data as the Data Sovereignty expert. 

The MMIP/R Application is designed to remove systemic barriers toward Indigenous reporting of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples removing Jurisdictional ambiguity between tribes and states, local government and national missing persons Databases. The application not only defines the reporting process, but offers explicit assistance in navigational guidance, case management linkages to proper resources, linkages to Indigenous Centric support resources, and assists in collection of Indigenous Data in direct redress to the the Critical issue of collecting Indigenous Data on the MMIP/R Crisis in Indian County. Additionally, the application and Intervention defines Indigenous, not by Tribal Recognition Status, but as lineal descent from Indigenous peoples of the Americas (irrespective of Tribal Recognition Status). The intention behind defining Indigeniety, via Indigenous Recognition of lineal descent seeks to create Justice for truly Indigenous people who have suffered Inter and Multigenerational traumas such as victims of the Termination plan era, victims of Indigenous Erasure, Genocide, and Whitewashing. In lieu of Indigenous Holocaust as direct Effects of Colonization, the Multigenerational effects of Trauma on whole communities and Tribes being stripped of their Ancestral Inheritance of Tribal belonging will receive Interventions in areas where Systemic Neglect and Violence are actively being wielded against them, in lieu of their Dispossession of their natural inheritance of their indigeniety. The MMIP/R Application seeks to reconcile Geneva Conventions Violations of Indigenous Peoples having the Right to Exist, to Survive, and to thrive via inheritance of their actual Indigenous Heritage, despite the Federal Recognition Process which unduly requires excessive documentation to prove Indigeneity in the face of an Active Genocide, as defined by Geneva Conventions. The Federal Recognition process exists from Termination Era formation, and erroneously assumes a position of conference of Tribal Identity and in that process, tribes are erased and terminated for not being able to burden substantiative proofs, but because it is an Active Genocide in lieu of the Termination Processes, and the continued Forced Removal of Indigenous Children, who do not qualify for ICWA protections in lieu of Tribal Status, the status of an Active Genocide can be met. Mortality rates for Indigenous people exceed the national averages in every conceivable way in content to Homicide, Murder, Suicide, and the Systemic Abuse and Neglect results in the Over-Criminalization, and representation of Indigenous People in Mental Health, and Legal Systems. As an Indigenous-centric project, we seek to reconcile these deficiencies that create substantiated risk to Indigenous People's lives, and inherit right to exist. Therefore, this MMIP/R Application seeks to directly contain and mitigate Risks which create the Risks to becoming MMIP/R, to create Relief from the dynamics which create vulnerabilities in the Indigenous Community, which has suffered from so much since Colonization as a marginalized group. Creating accessibility, resources, navigational guidance, Jurisdictional processes, by and for Indigenous Peoples, with Indigenous Values, is the main impetus for the Application. 

The MMIP/R web-based Application provides navigational guidance, Indigenous-centric resources, produces a standardized Missing Persons flyer, and creates a Data source for Indigenous People based on Sovereign definition of Indigeneity. The application puts the typically ambiguous reporting process into the hands of Indigenous Peoples and Communities, and removes barriers to reporting that have historically prevented Tribal and Local Government Jurisdictional ambiguities, and discrimination from preventing timely reporting, that has prevented registration in local governmental, state, and federal reporting agencies such as the National Missing Persons Database. The funding of the application will maintain Sovereignty to Indigenous People by being crowd-sourced, Tribally funded, grant-funded, and publicly owned and operated by Indigenous people. This is a crucial part of the design of the application to maintain full sovereignty of Data, Technology, and Information. We have the Project Team Twin Kiowa Nationals working on a marketing plan for Crowd sourcing, and as a technical writer and grants manager, we are seeking funding opportunities such as this one to assist in the build of the humanitarian effort of making the technology accessible to Indigenous People even in rural areas to intervene on the MMIP/R Crisis by creating the Indigenous Resource Clearinghouse for Resources related to High Risk areas associated to the Crisis. Additionally, Bhavana Consultation, LLC has been expanded to provided Indigenous Centric Mental Health Services to MMIP/R Victims of Violence, and have Case Management for MMIP/R cases. We have also begun registration of Chaa'ishmal Foundation 501(c)3 which is a Native American Science, Religion, Education, and Native American Support Services platform which is focused on Harm Reduction to Indigenous People and Communities. Chaa'ishmal aims to increase and promote protective factors against the adverse conditions indigenous people face, and “To embrace Transformational Culture for Positive Change" and it will provide In-Kind services to MMIP/R Victims of Violence, and Support Services to MMIP/R Relatives in need of Supports with their MMIP/R cases. With the combination of these Services, we can also refer Indigenous Survivors of MMIP/R and their families for Supports and Resources that are expertly focused in the subject areas needed to combat the MMIP/R Crisis. The creation of East Coast BlackHawk Bear Clan Patrol, and Bhavana Consultation doing business as  East Coast BlackHawk Bear Clan Patrol (ECBHBC) creates a Search and Rescue Team (SAR) for the East Coast Indian Territory. At present ECBHBC Patrol is recruiting Professionals to man SAR Teams, ECBHBC is currently recruiting in field specific areas of expertise: Tracking, Investigation, Criminology, Forensics, Medical Examination, K9’s, Horse Teams, Other Animal Services, Environmental Protection, Environmental Experts, Indigenous Law, Data Sovereignty, Indigenous Rights, Truth Healing and Reconciliation, Mental Health Experts,Technical Writing Experts, Native American Allie Supporting Native American People and Communities, and Other (Such as Technology Experts, and Drone Experts) Experts as relavent to the MMIP/R Crisis. These experts would be accessed and used in Active MMIP/R Crisis Cases of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People in conjunction to Native American Territories by Indigenous Jurisdiction. 

As a technical writer and grants manager, my plan is to Grant write for sustainability, also to use crowd-sourcing through targeting marketing strategies, and sell merchandise related to Indigenous Culture, Plant Medicine, Craft, etc. doing business as East Coast BlackHawk Bear Clan Patrol, under Bhavana Consultation, LLC. Using our Non-Profit Chaa'ishmal Foundation (501(c)3 to fundraise for MMIP/R in-kind support Services to provide necessary supports to MMIP/R Families, Victims, and Survivors. Additionally, using Bhavana Consultation, LLC to provide Clinical Supports in Case Management of MMIP/R Cases. Historically, I was the Tribal Administrator for the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation. In my year contract I was very successful in obtaining multi grants for the Tribe. I obtained several grants for them including the National Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums grant for Humanities at 50,000.00, DOE Tribal LIHEAP Energy Grant for 78,000.00 annually for 5 years, Indigenous Senior Luncheon and Food Pantry grant (to feed Elders and disabled) for 8,000.00, and the grants spanned the private sector, local county, and state and federal grants procurement systems. I applied for County level Mommy and Me, Childcare grant for 20,000.00 from the County (I was no longer in the position and do not know if they were granted this award or not, but the aforementioned grants, I was there when they were awarded. I became Administrative of Native Americans Project Management Certified, and a Notary in New Jersey as apart of the process, I also was responsible to "right" the Non-Profit status of the tribe in it's registrations to receive these government and private sector awards. I am familiar with Grants.gov, fully registered to provide Mental Health Services in NJ, and am highly adept at technology, in Data Management, Project Management, and working in Indian Country.  After that, I became the MMIP/R Outreach Consultant for an Urban Indigenous Collective out of New York State. I ran the MMIWGT2S Program, Policy Map, NYC, CT, NJ, and PA based Taskforce, as the Taskforce Chair, a member and Survivor-informed MMIP/R Taskforce as an MMIP/R Subject Matter Expert. I even taught at Cardoza Law School as an MMIP/R Expert in the Human Atrocities Clinic in my capacity. Crowd Sourcing Marketing Strategies for stakeholders in MMIP/R Justice through Tribal Subscriptions to the Application and Database are also being considered for Tribes who "show" that they can afford a subscription. If the Tribe does not show income, however, they will not be required to pay for subscription but receive scholarship instead. Using a sliding fee scale approach to Subscription Costs should help with accessibility, and after all, the main impetus is to get the technology to the people, to remove barriers to reporting to NAMUS, POLARIS, and other Missing persons agencies and it should remain publicly owned and operated.