PIERRE, (KELO-AM) — A new position within the state South Dakota Attorney General’s office will provide a key crime contact for Native Americans in South Dakota. Marlys Big Eagle was named to be the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Person Specialist. Big Eagle, who is also an enrolled member of the Crow Creek Tribe and a resident of Fort Thompson says she’s excited to assist families affected by crime..
Big Eagle served 27 years with the United States Department of Justice including 23 years as the Supervisory Victim Witness Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Dakota and 4 years at the Executive Office for United States Attorneys in Washington, D.C. as the DOJ’s first Native American Outreach Services Liaison for Missing or Murdered Indigenous Person cases occurring in Indian Country.
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