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Woman singing in Crow
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ominous music
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When I was growing up
on the Crow Reservation,
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we never locked the doors.
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Nobody locked their doors.
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But the darkness that has
happened in the last decade...
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is this...
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energy that's...
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like a black cloud, a vapor.
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That energy just consumes
you as an individual.
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Then, it consumes your family...
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until it consumes
your whole tribe.
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The last time I saw
her was two days before she went
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missing.
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She
never made it home.
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Not knowing
where she's at,
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if she's alive, if she's gone.
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Buried,
not found, lost,
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murdered, still missing.
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We're the silent
population that disappears.
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Tense music
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We were
supposed to be eliminated.
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We weren't supposed to be a
problem to the American life.
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We're just supposed to stay in
the back and be a good Indian.
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That's what you do
here in Montana.
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Multiple families
are grieving over teenage girls.
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What the hell is going
on in this community?
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Someone
knows what happened.
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That someone is still
walking around here.
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Dramatic music
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sparse tense music
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tense ambient music
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When I started
walking, I smelled...
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like the smell of death.
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I know the smell
of death and it...
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it's not a good smell.
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I hear this little,
small voice say,
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"Dad.
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Come find me, Dad."
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A devastating
ending to the search
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for a 14-year-old Montana girl.
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Her body was found Friday on the
Northern Cheyenne Reservation
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near Lame Deer.
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Today, we confirmed that
the body was Henny Scott.
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Tender music
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Henny was
the middle child.
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She really adored
her younger siblings.
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And she had all
kinds of friends.
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Henny was tomboyish.
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She liked to play football, and
she played a lot of basketball.
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She was pretty
good in basketball.
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The day Henny went missing, she
asked if she could go to open
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gym down here at the school.
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She was a freshman at the time.
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Later on that afternoon,
she called from a residence.
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The name had come up on the
caller ID so I knew where she
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was calling from.
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It's kind of like a party place
where all the teenagers go to
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party and hang out.
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There's no adult supervision.
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So I told her, "You
need to come back home."
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And that's the last
time I heard from Henny.
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Say hi, Snapchat.
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Tense ambient music
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The night Henny went missing, I
heard there was a party going on
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there.
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I know who she was with.
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They were known to mess
around with younger girls.
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And, of course, she was
the youngest one there.
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Nathan had gone
up to the house where she had
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called from and asked
them if they had seen her.
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One of the kids comes
out, and I said,
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"Theo, I wanna know
if you've seen Henny."
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And he said,
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"No."
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He said that she walked
off, and I was like,
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"Walked off?
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Where did she go?"
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He said, "She just walked
down the road and took off."
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I was told that
she took off by herself and...
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she just left on her own.
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Henny wasn't the type of
person just to up and leave.
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She would have a good reason to.
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When I went and filled out
the missing person's report,
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they weren't taking
me seriously.
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And when I would see the
cops out in the community,
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I asked them, you know,
"Have you seen Henny?"
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And it was all the
time the same thing:
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"Maybe she found a
new boyfriend" or...
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"She's still out partying" or...
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"She don't wanna come
home 'cause she's scared."
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After the
missing persons report,
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we thought that law enforcement
would look for her but,
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in actuality, they didn't.
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There was no search.
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No AMBER Alert.
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No nothing.
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At school, people were saying
that she was asking for it or
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it was her fault.
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If you're drunk
and you're outside,
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of course something's
gonna happen.
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They had put
up missing person flyers up
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everywhere.
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And still nothing.
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We had to do our
own investigation.
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And form our own search group.
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So we met up.
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Ominous music
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You could look across.
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You could see the house
where Henny had called from.
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I was on the bottom
of the ravine,
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looking all over,
looking through thickets,
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looking through everything,
little sage brushes and...
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we didn't find nothing at all.
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The FBI
showed up that morning.
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I don't know how they found
out about the search because I
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didn't contact them,
they didn't contact me.
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I'm walking and
I look like this,
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and there's people
behind the house.
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They told us, "Don't
go back there."
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And I'm wondering why.
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And then that's when
they had told us that they'd
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found Henny.
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And I... I asked them,
"Are you sure it's her?"
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And they
said, "Yeah, it's her."
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eerie ambient music
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They found Henny...
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about 100, 150 yards
away from that house.
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You could see...
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the door, that fucking door
from where she was laid at.
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Just a straight shot,
you could see the door.
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Henny Scott's remains were
discovered about 200 yards from
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the residence where she
was last known alive.
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It is reasonable to assume that
Henny died at the location where
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she was discovered, and that the
cause of death was hypothermia.
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There was nothing to explain
Henny's death either due to
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traumatic cause or
preexisting disease.
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They determined
Henny died from hypothermia,
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from exposure.
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But being a hunter, how
come no animals got to her?
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No mountain lions.
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No coyotes.
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No foxes.
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They even have dogs here; how
come they didn't get to her?
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When Henny was found,
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it wasn't her clothes
that she was found in.
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She was wearing
somebody else's clothes;
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she was wearing sweatpants, and
a t-shirt was found beside her.
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Maybe the shirt came off and
they just threw it beside her.
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And to me, it made me think
that she was drugged out there.
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We finally got to
bring her home,
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and we noticed that
her nose was...
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a weird shape.
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It looked broken.
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She had bruises,
she had scratches,
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and it looked like she had
a burn on her shin, also.
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What happened?
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There's something behind the
back of her neck right here.
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They still don't
tell us what that is.
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Why?
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I think that
she did get assaulted.
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I don't
know where to turn,
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I don't know who to ask.
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I know something happened
to her out there.
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Sparse ambient music
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So this is the
street I grew up on.
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My cousins still
live in this area.
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All the same people
live here.
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Um...
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David, Sarah...
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My uncle Ben lives down in
that trailer where we lived.
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When I was a kid, Ben lived in
this front trailer and we lived
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in the back trailer.
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And my friend Tasha
lived in this house.
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Tasha's mom went
missing when we were...
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babies.
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This is the most dangerous place
for Native women in the country.
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When it comes to the murdered
and missing women epidemic,
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this is the hottest zone.
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Big Horn County...
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Crow Reservation...
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the Billings area...
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the Northern
Cheyenne Reservation.
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There have been stories that go
back generations of women going
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missing and then found dead
with little to no explanation.
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There are so many different
possibilities for what happened
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to these murdered and missing
indigenous women in Big Horn
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County.
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Is it a hypothermia death?
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Is it a beating?
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Drug-related?
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Trafficking?
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We have all the
questions in the world...
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and we don't have the answers.
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When I graduated
from high school,
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the thing that I
wanted to do was leave.
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But then, when I
went off to college,
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the only thing I wanted
to do was come back.
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I decided that this is
definitely where I wanted to be.
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Sparse tense music
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I wanted my kids to be
connected to the family,
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to the community, because
despite all of the bad things
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that happen here,
despite missing people,
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despite high crime rates,
despite domestic violence,
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despite everything...
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this is our home.
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We want to have the
experience of being Crow...
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in Crow country.
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But I know how dangerous this
place can be for my daughter.
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Just being a female
makes her a target,
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just being a female
makes me a target,
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makes my mother a target,
makes my grandmother a target.
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This crisis that
we're living in,
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it affects every woman
on the reservation,
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and I don't know how to help
other than the work that I do as
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a journalist.
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I always knew I was gonna cover
stories about missing people.
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And I knew that the majority of
missing person cases in Montana
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were gonna be Native people.
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As soon as I got this job, one
of the first things that I did
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was look up my aunt's case.
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In 1977, my dad's
sister went missing,
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and was found four days later in
the Big Horn County fairgrounds,
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frozen in the snow.
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The coverage of that case was...
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heartbreaking.
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She was...
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another dead Indian.
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And they didn't offer any
kind of common decency
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in writing about her
as a missing person
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and in her as a human.
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Ominous ambient music
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There are cases stretching
back so far that...
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it feels like
we're born into it.
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It feels like, as Native women,
this is something that's in our
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DNA, this is something
that's in our blood.
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But that has to change.
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And so, one of the reasons
that I do what I do
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is because I feel
like, as a journalist,
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keeping the community
informed is important,
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telling the community's
stories is important.
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These cases are not true
crime stories to us.
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These cases are our relatives.
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And tonight,
we continue our coverage of the
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death of Henny Scott.
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Northern Cheyenne tribal members
mourn the 14-year-old girl whose
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body was found a few weeks after
she was reported missing near
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Busby.
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Amazing grace...
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The Henny Scott
case did mark a turn in how our
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local media paid attention to
murdered and missing indigenous
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cases.
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She had her name in the
headlines in a way that cases
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like this don't get.
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They were hitting the heart
really because Henny was 14.
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She was...
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so damn young.
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And that made
people feel like...
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"That could've been my kid."
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Family and
friends of Henny's went to the
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believed site where
her body was found.
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They mourn and remember the
bright young girl they love.
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And it was a
victory and, at the same time,
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a huge tragedy, because it took
a 14-year-old girl dying...
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A child.
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And people had to see
that to pay attention,
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to think, "Oh my God,
what's going on over there?"
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The family is
praying for justice for Henny
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and other missing indigenous
women from the reservation.
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We're dealing with these
at an alarming rate that...
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there's gotta be
something done...
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Justice, you know?
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A lot of these murdered and
missing persons cases shows the
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lack of response
from law enforcement.
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There's a lack of a sense of
even responsibility to the
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Natives in this community.
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In the case of Henny Scott,
because her body was found
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within the exterior
boundaries of the reservation,
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the BIA... Bureau of Indian
Affairs... law enforcement
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office is in charge
of investigating.
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They have authority
on reservation land.
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They dropped the
ball in so many ways.
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We found out that when we filed
the missing persons report in
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Crow, her report just sat on a
desk because the individual was
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out on vacation, and so nobody
had been looking for her.
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And then, we filled out another
missing persons report with the
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Lame Deer BIA, but it was
like hitting a brick wall.
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By the time the BIA police in
Lame Deer actually got the alert
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out that this girl was missing,
this 14-year-old girl was
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missing, it was two full weeks.
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And then, the FBI got involved.
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I don't know
if the FBI investigated it.
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They said they did.
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To this day, I've
never seen nothing.
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We got no communication
from them... at all.
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From the beginning of the
investigation to the end.
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Why didn't the
BIA investigate it properly?
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Why didn't the FBI
investigate it properly?
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You know, what really
happened that night?
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And why did it happen?
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We tried to let the
justice system work for us.
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But I honestly believe
that, being Native,
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that the system failed us.
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Not only us, but a lot
of families around here.
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Well, there's a concern and
call for action following the
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death of a 14-year-old
Lame Deer girl.
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On Tuesday, US Senator Jon
Tester released a letter to FBI
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Director Christopher Wray and
Acting BIA Director Darryl
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LaCounte.
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In it, Tester says the response
to Henny Scott's disappearance
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was inadequate, and
she isn't the first.
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Tester says these delayed,
ineffective responses on Indian
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reservations are a trend, and
there needs to be a much higher
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standard to protect
citizens in Indian country.
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uplifting tender music
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Big Horn County sits right
on the south end of the
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Montana/Wyoming border, and it
goes all the way to just outside
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of Billings.
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It encompasses part of the
Northern Cheyenne Reservation
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and most of the
Crow Reservation.
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There's a difference between
saying "Crow country" and
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"the Crow Reservation."
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The Crow Reservation
has 2.2 million acres
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that's all within Montana.
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But "Crow country" is from the
three forks of the Missouri,
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to the Milk River,
to the Black Hills,
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to the Horse Creek in Wyoming.
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That's the way Crow
people will see it.
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In the late 1860s, Crows
became reservation people.
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It changed our identity and
the way we view the world.
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They call it "living within the
lines"... these arbitrary lines
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that are placed on the
boundaries of the reservation by
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the US government.
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Annuities were passed out to
tribal people as part of an
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agreement for moving
to the reservation.
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Army bases were
built outside of Indian
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reservations.
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Those army bases weren't put
there to keep tribal people
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safe.
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Because of colonization
and the Western land grab,
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tribal people were essentially
prisoners on those reservations.
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So now, you get a
group of people who were free...
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Hunt where they wanna hunt,
go where they wanna go...
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And now are stuck and
confined to the reservation.
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It's an ugly period of high
levels of dysfunction...
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the mistreatment of each other.
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And the Federal government is a
lot of the reason why we are the
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way we are...
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It's the conflict
between our belief system
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and their belief system.
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When the Federal
government implemented the
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reservation system, it was
designed for us to fail
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and not thrive, so that
we would move away,
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forget who we are,
and assimilate.
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Then, you throw alcohol into it.
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So you have this whole time from
the early 1900s where alcohol's
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placed into this... an
already-stripped people.
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These warriors are
now emasculated.
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For one, they hold
no position anymore;
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the government does.
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So the government now appoints
who's gonna be the headmen of
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the tribe.
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So you have a defeated people
that now are having kids,
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and those kids are raised
by defeated people.
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When you take an entire society
and you strip them of any
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self-worth and
confidence they have...
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it becomes very fragile.
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That early reservation
period is...
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it's a dangerous time, 'cause
it laid the blueprint for
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everything that puts
us where we are today.
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Ethereal ambient music
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On May the 5th,
2022, in Hardin, Montana,
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at the courthouse, there's
a gathering for MMIW,
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missing/murdered
indigenous women,
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and they're not being
investigated and there's still a
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lot of missing indigenous
women on our reservations.
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A lot of perpetrators do come
to our Native communities
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because they do know that there
are these gaps in jurisdiction
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and the likelihood of being
held accountable is minimal.
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When you throw a
crime into this area,
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it's a nightmare because Big
Horn County has all of these
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jurisdictions.
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The Big Horn County Sheriff's
Office has authority
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on county land off
the reservation.
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For a crime that's
committed on tribal lands,
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Federal law
enforcement, the FBI,
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and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs have jurisdiction.
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BIA law officers would be
the ones who would show up
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immediately at a crime scene,
and then FBI would be called in
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to do the investigation.
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But the BIA cannot exercise
criminal jurisdiction over
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non-Indians when they commit
crimes on tribal lands.
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And so, when we live on our
tribal lands in our homes,
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our own government can't protect
us from basically any crime
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committed by a non-Indian.
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Ominous music
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And so, to figure
out who has jurisdiction at any
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given time, you have to know who
is the victim... are they Indian
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or not? who is the
perpetrator... are they Indian
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or not? where did the crime
occur... on Indian land or not?
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When it comes to violence
against Native women,
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when it comes to missing
and murdered situations,
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often times, we don't know
where she went missing,
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we don't know who
the perpetrator is.
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And so, I think often times,
law enforcement are gonna say,
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"Well, we don't
have jurisdiction,"
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or "We don't know if
we have jurisdiction,
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so take it over there."
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So it just falls
through the cracks,
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and we end up really being
almost a lawless community.
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The FBI has clear
jurisdiction on tribal lands,
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but the FBI gets involved in
cases of national importance.
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They get involved
when they're told to.
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Often times, what they will
say is that they want the local
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jurisdiction to invite them in,
and they're waiting for that to
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happen.
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The jurisdictional
issues, I think,
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are one of the main reasons why
Big Horn County has one of the
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highest rates of murdered and
missing indigenous women and
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girls in the United
States today.
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Sparse ominous music
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In late
August of 2019,
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a body was found off the
reservation in the city limits
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of Hardin, which is under the
jurisdiction of the Big Horn
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County Sheriff's Office.
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The body was in a backyard
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along Mitchell Avenue.
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Mitchell Avenue is
a very busy street.
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It is one of the main
thoroughfares in town.
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As a man was jogging
down the road,
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he passes a pile of
debris in someone's yard.
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He said he had seen crows.
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He did a double-take and
went back and realized...
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there was a body.
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It was 18-year-old Kaysera
Stops Pretty Places.
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Tender music
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Kaysera was
a fun-spirited young lady.
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She was a loving person.
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I mean, she was...
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her siblings' protectors.
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She was also that little mama.
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And she was the
one they looked up to to be
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their stability.
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The situation that they
were being raised in was...
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not a healthy, you
know, stable life.
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Her parents drank a lot.
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At times, they did meth.
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But their substance
of choice is alcohol.
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She really hated that,
and so she was...
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getting really angry about
it and upset when she started
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maturing.
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And then she became
more forceful.
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She was the
sister you didn't wanna piss off
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either.
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She was like
Kaysera; she would...
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just fight you and get
it done and over with.
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But she was always
there for her friends.
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The Crow tribe has
their annual Crow Fair.
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It's always that
third week of August,
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and Kaysera's birthday
is always right in there.
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Crow Fair is a pow wow, and
it's on the Crow Reservation.
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There's parades, there's rodeo.
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We camp for those few days.
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A lot of my family
come to visit,
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and so it's time
for us to, like,
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catch up, dance at the pow wow.
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And so Kaysera
asked permission to stay a few
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more days with her aunt
Percelia in Hardin.
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Happy birthday,
dear Kaysera...
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The night that
Kaysera disappeared was August
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24th.
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She'd just turned 18,
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and she went out to
celebrate her birthday.
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Kaysera had her friends
Isabella and Nakia with her.
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And they all got all
dressed up and...
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I think Kaysera changed
like three times that night,
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so she was really
excited for that.
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Tense ambient music
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Kaysera never made it home.
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When the girls woke up, I
asked where Kaysera was.
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And they both looked
at each other like,
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"We thought she already...
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came home."
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And I was like, "Well,
she's not home."
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I started reaching out,
sending Kaysera messages,
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trying to call her and
some of her friends and her
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sister-cousins,
asking them to look.
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Everyone started getting
more alarmed by Tuesday.
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When a young Native
woman goes missing in Big Horn
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County, your mind
immediately starts racing.
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They might be trafficked, they
might be getting beaten to
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death, they might be
being used as a drug mule.
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And the scariest part is the
not knowing what's happening.
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I was just like,
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"We need to go to
the police station."
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So we went.
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And I felt like the officer,
Jeramie Middlestead,
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didn't really take
take me as serious.
502
00:32:39,866 --> 00:32:43,166
Like, I wasn't given
a form to fill out,
503
00:32:43,366 --> 00:32:45,682
he just jotted down the
information on his little tablet
504
00:32:45,706 --> 00:32:47,836
that he carries in his pocket.
505
00:32:50,206 --> 00:32:53,006
There was no posters up, there
was nothing put out there that
506
00:32:53,046 --> 00:32:54,846
she was missing.
507
00:32:55,046 --> 00:32:59,356
They weren't professional
about the whole situation.
508
00:32:59,556 --> 00:33:02,856
And then, five days after
Kaysera went missing,
509
00:33:03,056 --> 00:33:06,856
I got a message through one of
my co-workers who lived on Range
510
00:33:07,056 --> 00:33:11,926
View that they found
a young female...
511
00:33:12,126 --> 00:33:17,156
behind the house on
Mitchell and Range View.
512
00:33:20,156 --> 00:33:23,706
But if it wasn't for my
co-worker messaging me,
513
00:33:23,906 --> 00:33:26,496
I don't think any of
us would have known.
514
00:33:26,996 --> 00:33:29,716
The Sheriff's Office
didn't notify us to say,
515
00:33:29,916 --> 00:33:31,386
"Hey, we did find a body.
516
00:33:31,586 --> 00:33:33,386
It may be her, it
may not be her;
517
00:33:33,586 --> 00:33:34,716
we don't know."
518
00:33:34,916 --> 00:33:37,556
They didn't say anything.
519
00:33:37,756 --> 00:33:41,056
She was taken to
the State Crime Lab in Billings,
520
00:33:41,256 --> 00:33:42,726
Montana.
521
00:33:42,926 --> 00:33:47,516
And she was not identified
until September 11th.
522
00:33:47,816 --> 00:33:51,566
They had to go into dental
records to identify her
523
00:33:51,766 --> 00:33:53,466
officially.
524
00:33:53,666 --> 00:33:57,906
Then, after that was when she
was finally returned to Hardin.
525
00:33:58,106 --> 00:34:01,536
From August 29th all the
way to September 11th?
526
00:34:02,206 --> 00:34:04,816
That is a long time.
527
00:34:05,016 --> 00:34:10,046
We waited and waited for the Big
Horn County Sheriff's Office to
528
00:34:10,336 --> 00:34:15,546
really even announce
that a case was opened,
529
00:34:15,756 --> 00:34:20,436
that it was pending, that...
530
00:34:20,636 --> 00:34:25,396
new details are emerging,
that anything was happening.
531
00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:30,726
As far as we knew, after
Kaysera's body was identified...
532
00:34:33,236 --> 00:34:37,066
nothing else happened
with her case.
533
00:34:38,736 --> 00:34:41,132
We were going
every day to try to meet with
534
00:34:41,156 --> 00:34:42,626
the Sheriff's Department.
535
00:34:42,826 --> 00:34:43,956
We made every effort.
536
00:34:44,156 --> 00:34:48,126
Every day, we
travelled 110 miles
537
00:34:48,326 --> 00:34:52,636
back and forth trying to meet
with any official we could.
538
00:34:52,836 --> 00:34:55,926
And all the doors
were closed to us.
539
00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:59,976
I got involved with Kaysera's
case a couple weeks after she
540
00:35:00,176 --> 00:35:02,476
was murdered, and
I just got a call,
541
00:35:02,676 --> 00:35:04,822
and it was from one of Kaysera's
family members and they just
542
00:35:04,846 --> 00:35:06,316
said, "Can you help us?"
543
00:35:06,516 --> 00:35:09,156
Speaking as a lawyer and
looking at the legal framework,
544
00:35:09,346 --> 00:35:11,492
it's very clear that what
happened in August was a
545
00:35:11,516 --> 00:35:14,986
complete disregard for not only
the rights of Kaysera but the
546
00:35:15,186 --> 00:35:18,996
rights of all Native women when
local law enforcement failed to
547
00:35:19,196 --> 00:35:23,496
investigate her death and to
take all steps necessary to look
548
00:35:23,696 --> 00:35:26,666
for her before finding
her on August 29th.
549
00:35:26,866 --> 00:35:29,182
The family needed help with a
Sheriff's Office that wouldn't
550
00:35:29,206 --> 00:35:31,506
even meet with them
or talk to them,
551
00:35:31,706 --> 00:35:34,676
and an FBI agency who
would not talk to them.
552
00:35:34,876 --> 00:35:38,506
They just needed help getting
someone to talk to them.
553
00:35:38,706 --> 00:35:41,516
Where she was found was
within State jurisdiction,
554
00:35:41,716 --> 00:35:44,346
but the local law
enforcement, Big Horn County,
555
00:35:44,546 --> 00:35:47,686
for a long time... ever since
this was first reported to them
556
00:35:47,886 --> 00:35:50,766
at the end of August... has
failed to just take very basic
557
00:35:50,886 --> 00:35:53,856
steps to conduct an
investigation looking into the
558
00:35:54,056 --> 00:35:56,146
causes surrounding her death.
559
00:35:56,646 --> 00:36:00,536
There are so many things about
her case that are inexplicable.
560
00:36:00,736 --> 00:36:02,196
They also had her cell phone.
561
00:36:02,406 --> 00:36:05,536
It is very easy, as an
investigative agency,
562
00:36:05,736 --> 00:36:08,382
to figure out who someone is
based on the phone on the dead
563
00:36:08,406 --> 00:36:10,046
body when you find them.
564
00:36:12,416 --> 00:36:15,052
For two weeks, the
family sat there and waited for
565
00:36:15,076 --> 00:36:18,676
results to see if it
was her body or not.
566
00:36:18,876 --> 00:36:21,556
Why didn't they let
the family know?
567
00:36:21,756 --> 00:36:23,636
Are they trying to
cover something up?
568
00:36:23,756 --> 00:36:27,286
Did they just have a complete
disregard for the family?
569
00:36:27,486 --> 00:36:31,516
What's the reason for the
lack of transparency there?
570
00:36:31,936 --> 00:36:36,566
The family has several different
theories about what happened.
571
00:36:36,766 --> 00:36:40,236
One of their theories
is that weeks before,
572
00:36:40,436 --> 00:36:44,746
during the annual Crow
Fair pow wow celebration,
573
00:36:44,946 --> 00:36:48,416
Kaysera posted on her social
media pages a fight that
574
00:36:48,616 --> 00:36:53,536
happened where police were
called in and they started
575
00:36:53,746 --> 00:36:58,216
beating on one of the young
boys who instigated the fight.
576
00:36:58,836 --> 00:37:04,216
The reason Kaysera did that was
the boy that was beaten by the
577
00:37:04,506 --> 00:37:07,096
police was her brother.
578
00:37:07,296 --> 00:37:10,266
According to the police report,
Kaysera's brother Esaias was
579
00:37:10,466 --> 00:37:14,106
acting aggressively and
was resisting arrest.
580
00:37:14,306 --> 00:37:19,236
One of the officers that was
accused of beating him was a
581
00:37:19,526 --> 00:37:23,236
deputy with the Big Horn
County Sheriff's Office.
582
00:37:23,656 --> 00:37:26,786
The family alleges that one of
the reasons that the Big Horn
583
00:37:26,986 --> 00:37:30,126
County Sheriff's Office treated
Kaysera's case the way that they
584
00:37:30,326 --> 00:37:34,126
did was because they were
embroiled in that altercation
585
00:37:34,326 --> 00:37:36,466
with her brother.
586
00:37:38,826 --> 00:37:41,966
There is a lot of very
suspicious things about
587
00:37:42,166 --> 00:37:44,536
Kaysera's case and the
way it was handled.
588
00:37:44,736 --> 00:37:47,312
The thing to know about Hardin
is that it is a border town.
589
00:37:47,336 --> 00:37:49,822
The reservation arcs around
a little bit and envelops the
590
00:37:49,846 --> 00:37:50,396
town.
591
00:37:50,596 --> 00:37:53,816
In fact, where Kaysera's body
was found is right next to the
592
00:37:54,016 --> 00:37:56,376
border of the Crow Reservation.
593
00:37:56,576 --> 00:38:00,986
Hardin has a high population of
Native people from the Crow and
594
00:38:01,186 --> 00:38:02,986
Northern Cheyenne Reservations.
595
00:38:03,186 --> 00:38:06,156
Also, a majority
white population,
596
00:38:06,356 --> 00:38:10,496
so it makes for some
difficult dynamics.
597
00:38:10,696 --> 00:38:12,842
There's a lot of
non-Natives who have a lot of
598
00:38:12,866 --> 00:38:15,666
prejudice against Native people.
599
00:38:15,866 --> 00:38:19,336
And there's a significant
devaluation of Native lives in
600
00:38:19,536 --> 00:38:20,536
these communities.
601
00:38:20,706 --> 00:38:24,006
And so, what ends
up happening is
602
00:38:24,206 --> 00:38:27,516
you have a border town where
violence against Native people
603
00:38:27,716 --> 00:38:30,346
is just an accepted incorporated
part of the culture,
604
00:38:30,546 --> 00:38:34,136
and no one in law enforcement
bats an eye at it.
605
00:38:34,436 --> 00:38:37,356
The relationship
between law enforcement and the
606
00:38:37,556 --> 00:38:41,476
Native community in Big
Horn County is pretty tense.
607
00:38:41,686 --> 00:38:46,366
There's been complaints about
our Sheriff's Office for years.
608
00:38:46,566 --> 00:38:48,036
There's an attitude.
609
00:38:48,236 --> 00:38:51,366
It's evident, it's... it's...
610
00:38:51,566 --> 00:38:53,036
tangible.
611
00:38:53,236 --> 00:38:56,546
When a tribal member goes
missing off the reservation,
612
00:38:56,746 --> 00:39:00,876
County has to use their
resources to either solve cases
613
00:39:01,076 --> 00:39:02,716
or fight crime...
614
00:39:02,916 --> 00:39:05,216
for "non-residents."
615
00:39:05,416 --> 00:39:09,886
And it really comes into play
when we start looking at cases
616
00:39:10,086 --> 00:39:11,886
here in town.
617
00:39:13,636 --> 00:39:17,566
The Sheriff's Office refused to
meet with Kaysera's family for
618
00:39:17,766 --> 00:39:21,236
several weeks, and
finally met and said,
619
00:39:21,436 --> 00:39:26,356
"Well, we just think she walked
over to this suburban yard and
620
00:39:26,646 --> 00:39:29,526
just died and laid there for
five days until we found her
621
00:39:29,606 --> 00:39:31,906
body on August 29th,"
622
00:39:32,106 --> 00:39:34,036
which is crazy.
623
00:39:34,446 --> 00:39:37,416
If you go to that intersection,
there's a car driving by every
624
00:39:37,616 --> 00:39:39,376
30 seconds.
625
00:39:39,786 --> 00:39:43,756
The odds of her body laying
there for five days is pretty
626
00:39:43,956 --> 00:39:45,086
much zero.
627
00:39:45,286 --> 00:39:47,256
There's no way that...
628
00:39:47,456 --> 00:39:48,846
no one would have seen her body.
629
00:39:49,046 --> 00:39:51,602
It's very clear that this is a
homicide and there's foul play
630
00:39:51,626 --> 00:39:53,216
involved.
631
00:39:55,226 --> 00:39:59,436
When the body of Kaysera
Stops Pretty Places was first
632
00:39:59,636 --> 00:40:04,106
discovered, the remains
were decomposed,
633
00:40:04,306 --> 00:40:06,946
meaning that there
was significant...
634
00:40:07,146 --> 00:40:09,116
change after death.
635
00:40:09,316 --> 00:40:11,946
We looked at everything
pretty exhaustively.
636
00:40:12,146 --> 00:40:15,456
We don't have a cause of death
that we can state confidently,
637
00:40:15,656 --> 00:40:18,626
and that's because of
the decomposition change.
638
00:40:18,826 --> 00:40:21,956
So there are certainly
possibilities that exist as a
639
00:40:22,156 --> 00:40:24,466
cause that I'm not at
liberty to discuss,
640
00:40:24,666 --> 00:40:27,796
however some of those...
641
00:40:27,996 --> 00:40:31,966
would fall under the realm,
in terms of the manner,
642
00:40:32,166 --> 00:40:35,266
as being classified as homicide.
643
00:40:35,556 --> 00:40:39,146
After her
body was identified,
644
00:40:39,346 --> 00:40:43,986
they brought the remains back to
Big Horn County to the coroner,
645
00:40:44,186 --> 00:40:49,106
Terry Bullis, who happens to
be the only mortician in town.
646
00:40:50,606 --> 00:40:53,826
Terry Bullis is a non-Native
white man business owner who
647
00:40:54,026 --> 00:40:57,826
owns a funeral home
in Big Horn County,
648
00:40:58,026 --> 00:41:01,666
and he also, for a
significant period of time,
649
00:41:01,866 --> 00:41:04,626
was the county coroner
for Big Horn County.
650
00:41:04,916 --> 00:41:08,126
He cremated Kaysera's body.
651
00:41:08,416 --> 00:41:11,506
The family claims that he
cremated her body against the
652
00:41:11,706 --> 00:41:13,796
family's wishes.
653
00:41:14,006 --> 00:41:16,522
And as their attorney, I filed
a complaint against him to have
654
00:41:16,546 --> 00:41:19,136
his mortuary license removed.
655
00:41:19,766 --> 00:41:24,976
And the Montana commissioner
decided not to do it.
656
00:41:25,266 --> 00:41:28,196
The Montana Funeral
Service Board found that in the
657
00:41:28,396 --> 00:41:31,696
Kaysera case, Terry Bullis
didn't do anything unlawful,
658
00:41:31,896 --> 00:41:34,372
but he didn't ask for
authorization in the best way
659
00:41:34,396 --> 00:41:35,696
possible.
660
00:41:35,896 --> 00:41:38,536
Tense music
661
00:41:38,736 --> 00:41:40,856
But if Terry Bullis
cremates your loved one,
662
00:41:40,906 --> 00:41:43,046
that's a pretty big
slap in the face,
663
00:41:43,246 --> 00:41:47,376
because Crow people don't
believe in cremating the body.
664
00:41:47,576 --> 00:41:52,216
If you're cremated, you're not
gonna move into the next life.
665
00:41:52,416 --> 00:41:55,556
I mean, imagine if you don't
believe in cremation as a form
666
00:41:55,756 --> 00:41:58,886
of burial and you're forced
to do that for your loved one.
667
00:41:59,086 --> 00:42:01,556
That is horrifically traumatic.
668
00:42:03,346 --> 00:42:07,236
I think the reason there has
not been justice in this case is
669
00:42:07,436 --> 00:42:10,686
that Kaysera is a Native girl.
670
00:42:17,366 --> 00:42:18,922
Little
information surrounds the
671
00:42:18,946 --> 00:42:21,076
passing of Kaysera
Stops Pretty Places.
672
00:42:21,276 --> 00:42:24,416
She was reported missing by her
family August 27th and her body
673
00:42:24,616 --> 00:42:27,086
was found two days
later, August 29th.
674
00:42:27,286 --> 00:42:29,262
According to coordinators
of the march,
675
00:42:29,286 --> 00:42:32,256
she is the 27th missing or
murdered indigenous woman or
676
00:42:32,456 --> 00:42:34,096
girl in Big Horn County.
677
00:42:34,296 --> 00:42:35,096
Say her name!
678
00:42:35,296 --> 00:42:36,596
Kaysera!
679
00:42:36,796 --> 00:42:37,942
Say her name!
680
00:42:37,966 --> 00:42:39,266
Kaysera!
681
00:42:39,466 --> 00:42:41,436
I went
to the justice march.
682
00:42:41,636 --> 00:42:43,106
Everyone dressed in red.
683
00:42:43,306 --> 00:42:46,436
They marched from the site
where her body was found,
684
00:42:46,636 --> 00:42:48,952
down Mitchell Avenue, and they
stopped in front of the Big Horn
685
00:42:48,976 --> 00:42:50,726
County courthouse.
686
00:42:52,066 --> 00:42:54,276
They were rallying
people, they were...
687
00:42:54,476 --> 00:42:56,946
crying out for this justice.
688
00:42:57,146 --> 00:43:00,286
I still can't
believe that this happened.
689
00:43:00,486 --> 00:43:02,456
We love our daughter so much.
690
00:43:02,656 --> 00:43:04,956
They're our family members...
691
00:43:05,156 --> 00:43:07,956
and we need to find out
what happened to them.
692
00:43:08,156 --> 00:43:12,466
We all still had
Henny Scott in the back of our
693
00:43:12,666 --> 00:43:13,796
minds.
694
00:43:13,996 --> 00:43:15,972
We all still had our
sisters, our mothers,
695
00:43:15,996 --> 00:43:19,136
our aunts, our grandmothers
in the back of our minds.
696
00:43:19,336 --> 00:43:21,896
Somebody knows something!
697
00:43:22,006 --> 00:43:25,146
People wanted to
know what happened to this girl.
698
00:43:25,346 --> 00:43:28,476
What is the County gonna
do to protect young women?
699
00:43:31,186 --> 00:43:36,106
tense ambient music
700
00:43:37,776 --> 00:43:42,786
With regard to the death of
Kaysera Stops Pretty Places...
701
00:43:44,116 --> 00:43:47,666
this one is one of those cases
702
00:43:47,866 --> 00:43:52,336
where it deserves a complete,
thorough investigation,
703
00:43:52,536 --> 00:43:57,466
because the findings in this
case don't exclude homicide.
704
00:44:00,296 --> 00:44:03,806
I don't have a cause
of death for Kaysera.
705
00:44:11,146 --> 00:44:14,696
What the hell is
going on in this community that
706
00:44:14,896 --> 00:44:19,816
allows it to be so
easy to disappear...
707
00:44:20,026 --> 00:44:22,036
over and over and over?
708
00:44:24,066 --> 00:44:27,706
Girls missing for two weeks,
girls missing for five days,
709
00:44:27,906 --> 00:44:29,876
girls missing for seven days.
710
00:44:30,076 --> 00:44:31,706
Girl gets found.
711
00:44:31,906 --> 00:44:36,506
Unexplained injuries,
unexplained disappearance.
712
00:44:37,836 --> 00:44:39,556
No questions are answered.
713
00:44:39,756 --> 00:44:41,676
"Hypothermia."
714
00:44:42,846 --> 00:44:44,726
"Undetermined."
715
00:44:44,926 --> 00:44:46,726
Every single time.
716
00:44:46,926 --> 00:44:48,056
Really, what the fuck?
717
00:44:48,256 --> 00:44:50,066
What the fuck is going on?
718
00:44:50,266 --> 00:44:55,186
Sparse tense music
719
00:45:02,196 --> 00:45:06,536
Living on the reservation is
like a perfect storm, right?
720
00:45:07,696 --> 00:45:11,916
That state that
Natives were put in
721
00:45:12,116 --> 00:45:14,586
when they were put
on reservations,
722
00:45:14,786 --> 00:45:17,376
that emotional state...
723
00:45:17,586 --> 00:45:22,386
it is alive and well
on reservations today,
724
00:45:22,586 --> 00:45:26,936
because of the poverty,
because of the joblessness,
725
00:45:27,136 --> 00:45:30,766
because of the drug
addictions, the alcohol abuse.
726
00:45:30,966 --> 00:45:35,276
And on top of all
of that dysfunction,
727
00:45:35,476 --> 00:45:37,776
put in a major highway
728
00:45:37,976 --> 00:45:41,776
with truckers going
God-knows-where,
729
00:45:41,976 --> 00:45:46,616
with traffic from across this
country going God-knows-where,
730
00:45:46,816 --> 00:45:49,786
put in close
proximity to Canada,
731
00:45:49,986 --> 00:45:53,796
where we have opioids
and meth coming in...
732
00:45:53,996 --> 00:45:57,966
Washington and Oregon, where
we have drug cartels coming in.
733
00:45:58,166 --> 00:46:01,136
And drug cartels, they're
not just trafficking drugs,
734
00:46:01,336 --> 00:46:03,426
they're trafficking people.
735
00:46:04,636 --> 00:46:08,766
All of that is
concentrated in this area.
736
00:46:08,966 --> 00:46:13,816
Sex trafficking is, um,
something that we have to look
737
00:46:14,016 --> 00:46:17,146
at with regard to missing
and murdered Indian women.
738
00:46:17,346 --> 00:46:19,322
Native
American woman and girls are
739
00:46:19,346 --> 00:46:22,486
just over three percent of the
population here in Montana.
740
00:46:22,686 --> 00:46:26,946
They make up 30 to 40 percent
of trafficking victims.
741
00:46:27,236 --> 00:46:30,166
And that's where we
come into non-Native people
742
00:46:30,366 --> 00:46:33,896
coming in and seeing an
opportunity to be predatory.
743
00:46:34,096 --> 00:46:39,126
The idea that white men in
particular are the villain,
744
00:46:39,336 --> 00:46:43,676
I think, is... is pretty
pervasive in our community.
745
00:46:43,876 --> 00:46:46,846
Pioneers or people moving
westward were not the most moral
746
00:46:47,046 --> 00:46:50,016
or ethical people, and Native
people were the target of a lot
747
00:46:50,216 --> 00:46:50,726
of that.
748
00:46:50,926 --> 00:46:53,856
There is this idea that
there's this white boogeyman,
749
00:46:54,056 --> 00:46:56,856
that there's someone from the
outside that's coming in to harm
750
00:46:56,886 --> 00:47:00,196
us, that people from outside our
community can come in and take
751
00:47:00,396 --> 00:47:02,856
what they want; they
can take the resources,
752
00:47:03,066 --> 00:47:06,366
they can take our women,
and nothing will happen.
753
00:47:06,566 --> 00:47:11,486
And it's this feeling of Native
women's lives are disposable.
754
00:47:15,576 --> 00:47:20,496
As a Crow woman, that nurturing
and protecting is engrained in
755
00:47:20,706 --> 00:47:25,546
who I am, and it's exacerbated
when we add in a murdered and
756
00:47:25,746 --> 00:47:29,506
missing persons crisis
in Big Horn County.
757
00:47:31,096 --> 00:47:34,896
Not enough people are worrying,
and not enough people are taking
758
00:47:35,096 --> 00:47:36,846
action.
759
00:47:40,516 --> 00:47:43,066
In covering Kaysera,
it was hard.
760
00:47:43,266 --> 00:47:47,576
The Sheriff's Office has
been quiet about this case...
761
00:47:47,776 --> 00:47:50,196
Abnormally quiet.
762
00:47:50,826 --> 00:47:53,786
There are so many questions
surrounding the cause of her
763
00:47:53,946 --> 00:47:55,536
death.
764
00:47:55,746 --> 00:47:59,916
I wanna know who else was there
the night that she died and what
765
00:48:00,116 --> 00:48:01,416
they know.
766
00:48:01,616 --> 00:48:05,756
I wanna know if they were
questioned by Big Horn County.
767
00:48:05,956 --> 00:48:10,046
And I wanna know why
she was in that yard.
768
00:48:10,466 --> 00:48:14,386
I find it odd that she
just laid down and died.
769
00:48:14,676 --> 00:48:17,266
It makes no sense to me.
770
00:48:17,466 --> 00:48:20,606
Ominous music
771
00:48:20,806 --> 00:48:25,106
My job is to inform the
community of what's going on,
772
00:48:25,306 --> 00:48:28,616
and to try my best to...
773
00:48:28,816 --> 00:48:33,736
maybe not bring justice, but
to at least give them answers.
774
00:48:34,406 --> 00:48:36,246
That's my goal.
775
00:48:37,746 --> 00:48:40,746
I'm still trying
to get information.
776
00:48:41,376 --> 00:48:44,966
And then, all of a sudden,
we're into the new year.
777
00:48:45,166 --> 00:48:48,926
First day of the new year,
we... we have a missing girl.
778
00:48:49,586 --> 00:48:51,256
And...
779
00:48:52,756 --> 00:48:56,306
it was a... a girl I knew.
780
00:48:56,506 --> 00:48:58,266
Very well.
781
00:48:58,476 --> 00:49:03,266
It was Selena Not
Afraid, 16 years old.
782
00:49:03,686 --> 00:49:08,656
She was last seen on
eastbound Interstate 90.
783
00:49:12,186 --> 00:49:14,002
A missing
endangered person advisory has
784
00:49:14,026 --> 00:49:18,166
been issued for a 16-year-old
girl in Big Horn County.
785
00:49:18,366 --> 00:49:22,456
It blew my mind
that she was gone that fast.
786
00:49:23,126 --> 00:49:25,236
Disappeared.
787
00:49:25,436 --> 00:49:27,176
Into thin air.
788
00:49:30,876 --> 00:49:35,246
There is the frenzy to find her.
789
00:49:35,446 --> 00:49:40,416
I've never seen a reaction
like that to a missing person.
790
00:49:40,616 --> 00:49:42,856
They had everything out there.
791
00:49:43,056 --> 00:49:45,476
You name it, they had it.
792
00:49:45,896 --> 00:49:49,486
If anybody has a
chance of surviving...
793
00:49:51,316 --> 00:49:53,696
it's Selena Not Afraid.
794
00:49:53,896 --> 00:49:58,826
Tense music
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