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Federal authorities charged three people in the 2020 killing of Zachariah Shorty, a 23-year-old found shot in a field on the Navajo Nation.

Operation Not Forgotten deployed 60 FBI agents across 10 states to investigate unsolved Indian Country crimes, resulting in 1,123 arrests and locating 450 child victims.

Native Americans face the highest per capita rates of violent victimization in the U.S., and advocates worry permanent funding may not continue for these investigations.

BERNALILLO, N.M. — Unconditional love. That’s what Vangie Randall-Shorty felt the moment she first held her son. She still feels it — even though Zachariah Shorty is now gone.

“I carry him in my heart every

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