UNDATED (AP)— The FBI has established a minimum reward of $25,000 in cases where people went missing or were killed in Indian Country.
It’s part of a broader effort to address high rates of violence affecting Native American communities.
The new minimum applies to more than 50 unsolved homicides and missing person cases in tribal communities. Most of the cases are less than 10 years old, though an Associated Press analysis found a dozen have been unsolved for over two decades.
The FBI is responsible for investigating federal crimes on nearly 200 Native American reservations, along with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
At the end of 2025, the FBI’s National Crime Information Center recorded just under 1,500 active cases involving missing Native Americans, though not all become federal cases.
