Noting that eight Indigenous youth under the age of 18 had gone missing in the first five weeks of 2025, North Dakota Representative Jayme Davis introduced a bill urging state lawmakers to pass a Feather Alert to help safely recover missing persons from Tribal communities. The alert would be “another tool in our toolbox” to combat the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people, said Davis, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. “This is not just a Tribal issue—it is a North Dakota issue, and it is our responsibility to act,” Davis noted in pushing the measure forward. The Feather Alert would only be activated at the state level after meeting strict criteria, comparable to an AMBER Alert, in which the missing person is believed to be in danger and there is information about the vehicle, person, or abductor. California is currently the only state with a Feather Alert. In addition to the new alert, North Dakota lawmakers have also been considering a measure to create a task force designed to fill communication gaps among Tribal, federal, state, and local agencies.