Keep Its Word | Alani Bankhead for U.S. Senate

Somebody's daughter doesn't come home. Washington gave its word to Montana's tribal nations: treaties, laws, help that was supposed to come. It never fully came. Alani Bankhead spent two decades finding people who were taken and arresting the people who took them. Washington gave its word. She intends to collect. Sources • Tribal police get about 15¢ of every $1 they need: Bureau of Indian Affairs report to Congress, 2021 ($1.7 billion need vs. $256 million spent) • Indigenous Montanans are an estimated 6.5% of the state: Montana Missing & Murdered Indigenous Persons Advisory Council report (U.S. Census 2020) • 31% of Montana's missing-persons cases in 2023 were Indigenous people: Montana Department of Justice • Nearly 2 of every 3 sexual-assault cases from Indian Country declined: U.S. Attorney's Office for Montana under Kurt Alme; DOJ data via Scripps News, "A Broken Trust" (2019) • "It is something that has to be worked on.": Kurt Alme, on the record to Scripps News (2019) Where Alani stands on MMIP and tribal public safety: https://alaniformt.com/positions Human trafficking: https://alaniformt.com/human-trafficking Get involved: https://alaniformt.com/get-involved Chip in: https://alaniformt.com/donate #MMIP #MMIW #Montana #MTSen #AlaniBankhead Paid for by Friends of Alani Bankhead. Approved by Alani Bankhead.