Last week in Wisconsin, Jason Ike Pero, a 14-year-old Native American boy, was fatally shot by the police after he, himself, made the 911 call for help. As many grieve the death of this young boy, many are also enraged that the frequent police killings of Native Americans are oftentimes forgotten.

As the Black Lives Matter campaign continues to gain support and attention to citizens around the U.S., the misfortunes of another race continue to be ignored. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Native Americans have the highest rate of deaths by law enforcement; 2.9 per every one million Native Americans dies from a law enforcement related killing, and the data could even be under-reported. To make this data even more jarring, the population of Native Americans in the U.S. is lower than other races with lower death rates.

This data is surprising to many who regularly see the news cover shootings of African Americans and other minorities. The Black Lives Matter campaign is extremely important, and I support it in every way, but there should also be more light shown on the many innocent Native Americans that are also being fatally shot by the police. The news of a Native American being shot does not seem to exasperate and enrage U.S. citizens as much as other minority shootings. But I don’t think that it is a racism problem.

Black Lives Matter has grown into such a large movement that they’ve caught the attention of news channels and reporters looking for an interesting story. If more people knew about the atrocities committed against Native Americans, there would be more support for the “forgotten” minority. Native Americans deserve to be heard, too.