  In a recent Reuters Foundation article
 
 , Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana described it best, "We're in crisis mode." Azure spoke of the drug and sex trafficking epidemic that is happening to Native American communities across the country. The problems are interconnected and getting worse - mothers are selling their children into the sex trade for drugs, young girls are getting into the sex trade for drugs. All the while, many are asking where the feds are in all of this, why isn't the FBI involved? Melina Healey, a teaching fellow for the Child Law Policy & Legislation Clinic at Loyola University in Chicago, has spent much of her career collaborating with American Indian leaders and doing investigative research on reservations. Healey and her team recently helped draft the first sex trafficking laws on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, which were approved in March of 2016. She delves into some of these complex issues faced by Native Americans in this interview with Joel Heitkamp.

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  In a recent Reuters Foundation article
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 , Tribal Chairman Floyd Azure of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana described it best, "We're in crisis mode." Azure spoke of the drug and sex trafficking epidemic that is happening to Native American communities across the country. The problems are interconnected and getting worse - mothers are selling their children into the sex trade for drugs, young girls are getting into the sex trade for drugs. All the while, many are asking where the feds are in all of this, why isn't the FBI involved? Melina Healey, a teaching fellow for the Child Law Policy &amp; Legislation Clinic at Loyola University in Chicago, has spent much of her career collaborating with American Indian leaders and doing investigative research on reservations. Healey and her team recently helped draft the first sex trafficking laws on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, which were approved in March of 2016. She delves into some of these complex issues faced by Native Americans in this interview with Joel Heitkamp.
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News & Views with Joel Heitkamp is a multi-award winning program on KFGO in Fargo, North Dakota where Joel Heitkamp brings his common sense approach to the issues of the day in the upper Midwest region. From politics to public service announcements to sports to government spending, there is a place in the conversation for everyone.