For generations, American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian peoples have faced an ongoing crisis of violence, human trafficking, and an epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (also known as MMIP). To bolster prevention efforts to mitigate the MMIP epidemic, the Administration for Native Americans (ANA), a program office within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), collaborated with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Interdepartmental Council on Native American Affairs (ICNAA) to develop a podcast series to raise awareness, provide prevention resources and educate listeners on MMIP.

This 10-part podcast series includes interviews with a variety of speakers, from tribal leadership to federal partners, advocates, members of grassroots organizations and native athletes that have all joined together to raise awareness of the MMIP epidemic. This series identifies ways we can focus on prevention and the continued work of Keeping Us Whole.

This first podcast episode features Administration for Native Americans Deputy Commissioner Hope MacDonald Lone Tree (Navajo).

This segment will explore the public health approach to violence prevention and how this can impact Native communities. It will provide the definition of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) and why it is important to define the MMIP crisis. The major risk and prevention factors for MMIP will be discussed and how much overlap there is with prevention factors and other forms of violence. Unique risks or resources Native Americans will be shared and how risks accumulate over the course of a life.

The MMIP Podcast Series is hosted by Chance Lee Rush, Executive Director or Our Native Men. He is a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Chance is a well known Indigenous Motivational Speaker and Master of Ceremonies traveling throughout the United States and Canada supporting native youth and tribal communities. He is also an Actor, Athlete, Life Coach, Pastor, Husband and father of seven children.

"I am honored to travel with you on this journey - haho, Thank you, for listening".