The saddest part is that this type of thing is just a continuous path of US behavior. This isn't atypical or out of character for any period from 1492 to the present.

The current government investment in policing around MMIW isn't going to stop or even slow MMIW, but it will absolutely result in the killing of more indigenous folks in border towns. Meanwhile fossil fuel companies are siphoning money into local police forces to pay them to attack and arrest peaceful Line 3 water protectors who are simply asking for the US to honor their treaties.

No major news networks even show up to cover these things after a brief interest in the Dakota access pipeline bullshit fizzled out.