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  • Petito case renews call to spotlight missing people of color

    LINDSAY WHITEHURST and TERRY TANG|Sep 26, 2021

    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — In the three months since 62-year-old Navajo rug weaver Ella Mae Begay vanished, the haunting unanswered questions sometimes threaten to overwhelm her niece. Seraphine Warren has organized searches of the vast Navajo Nation landscape near her aunt's home in Arizona but is running out of money to pay for gas and food for the volunteers. "Why is it taking so long? Why aren't our prayers being answered?" she asks. Begay is one of thousands of Indigenous women who have disappeared throughout the U.S. Some receive no public a...