CA CA - Sumi Gail Juan, 33, Hoopa, 8 September 2010

[burblestein]

Sumi was last seen on 8 September 2010, but wasn't reported missing until October 2010. She is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 200 pounds, and is Native American. The Hoopa Tribe has conducted a massive search for her.

The account is here: http://www.tworiverstribune.com/2012/04/search-for-sumi/

 

[burblestein]

More coverage on Sumi Gail Juan's disappearance below.

Sheriff's Office press release on investigation:
http://www.riodelltimes.com/HumboldtCountySheriff/11.16.10MissingPersonInvestigationContinues.pdf

A Facebook Missing Person page:
Indian Country's Missing

The Charley Project listing gives some details of her last known companions:
Sumi Gail Juan – The Charley Project

KMUD coverage (nothing new): Missing Person Report

 

[EastHumboldt]

Nothing is clear on this; There are no 24 hour venues or shelter services in her town. The next obvious choice is to stay with friends or family members, yet she was reported missing nearly a month after the fact and all dates are estimated. Initially there was a big push in the local media for assistance, in the first year there was a united front to canvas the valley floor with volunteers and law enforcement among both the County and Tribe.

For reasons beyond this case a dispute over jurisdiction, as California is a PL 280 State and Hoopa is a reservation, ultimately granted rights to the County where the search effort has gone stagnant. Unless the Hoopa Valley Tribe reaches an agreement for Cross-Deputization with the Humboldt County Sheriff there will be no County presence on Reservation land.

Additionally, the last known companions will be of no assistance now.

TWO RIVERS TRIBUNE ~ ONLINE | Opinions (Robert Hodge Jr., Hoopa CA)

Grandmother Found Dead on Eureka Street – Redheaded Blackbelt

In the following article Juan's Uncle reports that they brought shovels into the search effort. It went unreported that the digging itself happened on the family property resulting in no further cooperation on their part.

TWO RIVERS TRIBUNE ~ ONLINE | Search Continues for Hoopa Resident Missing Since September

 

[burblestein]

The relations between sheriff and reservations is indeed a touchy one in the Emerald Triangle. In Mendocino County, it has led to a proliferation of tribal police forces on reservations. Round Valley, Shodokai, and Coyote Valley now have their own forces.

Unmentioned by our new local source is the antipathy that usually exists between the FBI and many tribes. That's another whole ball of wax.

 

[CastlesBurning]

Candlelight Vigil at Courthouse in Support of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People – Redheaded Blackbelt

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Name: Sumi Gail Juan
Case Number: 201007024
Race: Native American
Sex: Female

DOB: 11/2/1977
City of Residency: Hoopa, CA
Synopsis: Sumi Juan was reported missing to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office on October 29, 2010. She was last seen by family members in early October or September 2010 at Hoopa Elementary School. Juan has not been seen since her disappearance and is missing under suspicious circumstances.
Unsolved Cases | Humboldt County, CA - Official Website

 

[Pennysmom1]

Sumi is still missing

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Scar/mark
Birthmark on left calf.

Other distinctive physical characteristic
Wears glasses occasionally.

Sumi Juan, Missing from California since 2010.

A blog about the many missing, murdered, and unidentified Native/Indigenous/Aboriginal women of the United States and Canada. Say Their Names!

www.justicefornativepeople.com

<<Sumi was 33 years old when she was last seen walking from Hoopa Elementary School in September of 2010 in Hoopa, California. Authorities have not released much information regarding Sumi's disappearance with the exception of a press release in November of 2010 asking for information regarding the whereabouts of Robert Hodge Jr and Debra Jealous of Him, both from Hoopa. The Humboldt County Sheriff's office was careful to note that neither person is considered a suspect in Sumi's disappearance, but that they were sought for information as they were rumored to have been with Sumi around the last times she was seen.>>

Tribal Information: Sumi is from the Hoopa tribe

 

[Pennysmom1]

November 5, 2021

Indigenous Mom Was Spotted Walking Away from Calif. Elementary School in 2010, Hasn't Been Seen Since

Sumi Gail Juan had not been seen for about a month when she was reported missing in 2010

people.com

 

[Pennysmom1]

Archived article from Los Angeles Times March 14, 2023

https://archive.ph/dQ8qx

<<Eleven years before Emmilee Risling was last seen, another Native woman disappeared: 32-year-old Sumi Juan, an artist known for her quilting and a mother of three daughters, including O’Rourke’s foster daughter, Charlene.>>