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Alana Nulph displays one of the drones used in her new search and rescue program under a Yurok initiative focused on finding missing Indigenous people. (Courtesy photo)
Alanna Nulph wanted to be a helper when Indigenous people went missing in her region.
A senior paralegal and special tribal criminal jurisdiction coordinator for the Yurok Tribe in Northern California, Nulph spent years working on missing and murdered Indigenous people, or MMIP, cases in the region.
When one of the tribe's own, Emilee Risling, went missing in October 2021, Nulph decided that she needed to take even more direct action in the face of what she felt was helplessness. "I know when Emilee Risling went missing, I was at home wringing my hands together because I didn't know how I could help, but felt like I needed to do something," Nulph told Native News Online.
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