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Across the U.S., Indigenous people are gathering to honor loved ones as part of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples movement. The AP and its partners in the Global Indigenous Reporting Network -- MPR News, KOSU and The Imprint -- spoke to families about the disproportionate violence in their communities and the changes they want. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Native Americans and Alaska Natives are more than twice as likely than the general population to be victims of a violent crime, and Native women are twice as likely to be victims of homicide.