On MMIP Awareness Day, Gov. Stitt Vetoed a Bill Meant to Help Indigenous Families
Stitt’s excuse? That a dedicated office focusing on Indigenous cases would “undermine equal protection.”
May 5th was Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.
And instead of honoring that day with action, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt chose to veto House Bill 1137 — a measure that would have expanded Ida’s Law, removing the requirement that the state only support it with federal funds.
The bill would’ve allowed Oklahoma to invest its own resources into investigating missing and murdered Indigenous persons. To give families answers. To back a crisis that Indigenous communities have been screaming about for years.
Stitt’s excuse? That a dedicated office focusing on Indigenous cases would “undermine equal protection.”
Let’s be honest: that’s not equality. That’s erasure.
The MMIP crisis is not theoretical. It’s not niche. Oklahoma has one of the highest rates of missing and murdered Indigenous people in the country. And now, the state is once again telling tribal communities to wait. Be quiet. Be patient.
We won’t be quiet. We won’t be patient.
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We gotta vote out these asshole Republicans!! 🤬
They definitely have to go. The endless cruelty of such callous individuals cannot be tolerated. Recall that POS.