Abigail Echo-Hawk gives a presentation at the San Jose Police Department in California about cultural sensitivities in cases involving sexual assault, domestic violence and missing and murdered Indigenous people. (Courtesy/ Urban Indian Health Institute)

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms.

The woman had suffered multiple blows to her head and falls at the hands of her…