Native Woman Reported Missing in California Found Deceased Following Feather Alert

Details: By Elyse Wild

Amy Porter, 43, a tribal citizen of the Morongo Tribe, was discovered deceased yesterday, at some point after a California Highway Patrol issued a Feather Alert after she had been lacking for almost one week.

According to a Facebook put up by Porter's daughter, she was final seen on Sept. 15 by household and buddies in Lake Elsinore in Riverside County, California. On Sept. 16, it was reported that Porter checked right into a Pomona lodge with Damon Bell. According to studies from Porter's household, safety footage exhibits Bell leaving the lodge hours earlier than Porter left the lodge alone; she was concerned in a serious automotive accident close to Live Oak Canyon Road heading eastbound. She was seen fleeing the accident on foot.

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Porter's household and buddies organized a search at 8 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 22, close to 10 Freeway and Wildwood Canyon Road. The search social gathering situated a deceased physique in a ravine in the realm round 9 a.m. A Facebook put up by her household confirms the physique is Porter.

The Feather Alert was codified in California state regulation in 2022 after laws authored by Committee Chair Assemblymember James C. Ramos (Serrano/Cahuilla Tribe). Launched on Jan. 1, 2023, the statewide alert system offers the general public with info to help in the restoration of a lacking Indigenous individual. It is the state's first legislative measure to fight the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP) disaster.

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Elyse Wild is senior editor for Native News Online and Tribal Business News.