Indigenous men aren’t immune. Donovan Paddock, who joined an awareness walk Friday in Scottsdale, Arizona, said two of his uncles were killed. His grandfather Layton Paddock Sr., a Navajo Code Talker, was found dead months after going missing in Winslow.

Assemblymember James C. Ramos, the first and only California Native American serving in the state Legislature, will introduce a measure to designate May as "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Month.

Across South America, states only recognize and guarantee the rights of peoples in isolation whose presence has been officially recorded. In Venezuela, for example, although NGOs have confirmed four records of Indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation, the state has not recognized any of them.