For decades, Native Americans and Alaskan natives have experienced disproportionately high rates of murder, rape, and other violent crimes.

An outcome experts say of generational trauma and systemic abuse.

Tackling the issue has been a rare bipartisan effort.

President Trump is now continuing a Justice Department program to surge FBI agents to help solve cases of missing and murdered indigenous people.

As Stephanie Sive reports from New Mexico, a lack of law enforcement resources is just one reason why so many of these cases are never solved.

It's part of our ongoing series, Race Matters. Giggles and the breathless joy of childhood breathe life into the dusty Hamez Pueblo.

The grandkids are all right, but it wasn't always so.

So Shauna actually had four kids, three girls and one boy.

Wilson was her only boy she had.

And it was actually the hardest to, yeah, comfort him when she passed.

Geraldine and Benjamin Toya are potters by trade.

They work while they reminisce about their late daughter.

She used to follow me around everywhere I go. In July of 2021, Shana was with Geraldine at a family

party. About six hours later, Geraldine got a call in the dead of night. When I got that call that

morning at 315 to say that they found my daughter deceased

at a park in her ride.

It didn't, you know, it was like a bad dream.

You know, that's what I wanted to see it as because I just saw her.

I just spoke with her.

It can't be her.

The incident report says EMTs tried CPR on

Shana, but she was beyond help. In the postmortem examination, test showed she had methamphetamines,

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