 Lawmakers last year signed off on the agency spending $60,000 to train missing persons response teams. But as of last week, the agency said that money has not been spent. Montana has one of the highest rates of missing and murdered indigenous persons, or MMIP, in the nation. Indigenous people make up around 7% of Montana's population, but 26% of the state's missing persons cases, according to the State Department of Justice. This new group is made up of representatives from tribes, state and federal offices, and Montana Highway Patrol.