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I was
born and raised here,
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and my identity is with my
people here on the Northern
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Cheyenne Reservation.
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I'm very proud because every day
I'm reminded of our victory...
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'cause right now,
I'm still here.
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But we've been subdued into
this lifestyle we're in,
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and we're having a real
hard time adjusting to it.
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Our menfolk lost our
role as a warrior,
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protector, provider.
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Our spirit's been stripped.
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We've been stripped
of our language.
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We've been stripped
of our way of life.
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And my grandfather, he
always used to tell me,
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"If you want to
address the problem,
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address its roots."
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That's why I'm here now.
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I work for the Northern
Cheyenne Tribe,
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and this is the
checkpoint security.
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We keep track of
occupants, plate numbers...
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and activity.
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Law enforcement is pretty
poor at their job right now.
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A lot of families have been let
down because of their neglect
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over my people.
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My role as a man... a
Cheyenne man in general...
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You protect the women, and
you protect the children,
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and the elders.
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Always be ready, 'cause you
never know if an enemy is gonna
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come.
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We have predators,
child molesters,
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rapists that see the opportunity
to prey on a vulnerable female.
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We only get one life, and we're
only passing through here.
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But right now, we've
kind of become hopeless.
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But that's the worst
thing you can do.
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Don't give up.
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Tense ambient music
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tense ambient music
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It's 2022.
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It's been two years
since Selena's case.
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It's been three years
since Kaysera's,
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and four since Henny's.
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I've seen more representation
of the movement in the media
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than I have ever seen before.
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You know, five, six years ago,
we weren't getting any news
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coverage for these cases.
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People have been asking me
about the necklace I'm wearing.
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It represents all indigenous
women who went missing.
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466 indigenous women and
girls were reported missing.
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She went missing two years ago.
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Her death is part of a pattern
of murdered indigenous women.
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I'll see MMIW on
T-shirts, in music videos,
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or in the new season of Dexter.
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You know, like mainstream media.
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We had a helicopter fly over.
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We had people walking.
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What these families
really did was help solidify Big
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Horn County's Murdered and
Missing Indigenous Women's
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Movement nationwide.
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Justice for Selena!
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This movement was
so loud and it was so strong,
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you would think that
change would have happened.
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But nothing really became of it.
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Nobody has answers.
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We don't know anything more
than the day those girls died.
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We've heard nothing on
Selena, and as far as I know,
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her case is sitting in evidence
at the Big Horn County Sheriff's
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Office, where her dad now
works as the undersheriff,
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and there's still no movement.
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When I took the oath in
Big Horn County, Montana,
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I made the personal decision
and the professional
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decision to insulate myself
from any investigations
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because...
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I, as a law enforcement
officer, cannot compromise an
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investigation that may
or may not be ongoing.
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When I resigned
as the undersheriff,
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the Sheriff, Lawrence Big Hair,
I think he wanted a Native
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American undersheriff, and Leroy
was a good choice at the time.
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The Sheriff, he can... he can
appoint you and unappoint you
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the next day and he doesn't
have to tell you why,
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and I didn't ask him why.
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I was actually relieved.
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I mean, if you can imagine the
pressure that you felt from just
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that one case.
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Today, in the Selena
Not Afraid case,
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the investigation is
pretty much complete.
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There's nothing
left to look into.
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In fact, Big Horn County gave
the whole case to another agency
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to look at it, and they went
through it with a fine-tooth
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comb to see what
we should've done,
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could've done, would've done, or
if there's anything illegal or
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immoral or anything else
wrong with the case,
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and they came back with nothing.
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She died of hypothermia.
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They try to say hypothermia,
but when we were at the rest
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area looking, she wasn't there.
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'Cause that's what it
is: they took her back.
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There's all kinds of roads back
there on that little section she
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was found.
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So there's a way they got
there and they dumped her,
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and she was right there
by that cut across,
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just a few feet off of the road.
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I suspected that somebody
abducted her right away;
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I knew that.
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'Cause we couldn't find her.
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To my knowledge of
what law enforcement shared with
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me on that day, that was
the official cause of death:
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hypothermia.
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And I'm not gonna dive
into conspiracy theories
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or bullshit...
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on what everyone is
saying on social media.
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There's nothing I can do today
that's gonna bring back my
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daughter!
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There's a
lot of corruption here;
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you can't get nothing done.
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You can get killed real
easily around here,
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and there'll be
no investigation.
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We're probably never gonna know
the 100-percent truth about what
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happened to each of these girls,
but the factors that played into
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the situations that they were
put in the night that each one
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of them died, we know.
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The social problems,
the family problems...
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And when we think about
everything that's happened in
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the grand scheme of things,
we wouldn't have these social
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issues if we didn't have...
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those first initial ones.
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All of that played directly
into social problems that are
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happening now.
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And all of that goes
right back to...
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those initial days of being
placed on reservations.
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The historical causes
of a lot of the dysfunctions
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that we see today was
born in colonization,
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was born in these federal
policies to work towards
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terminating Indian nations.
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"Kill the Indian,
save the Man."
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If they couldn't kill
the Indians away,
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they were going to kill the
spirit and make sure that they
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no longer had that cultural
connection and could just be
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assimilated into
mainstream society.
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The legacy of Indian boarding
schools is a perfect example of
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that.
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Boarding schools is where we see
some of the first heartbreaking
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stories of missing and
murdered Indian children.
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Children being taken away
and never seen again.
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Parents not knowing what
happened to their children.
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Missing and murdered Indigenous
women and girls started with
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boarding schools.
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Starting in the early 1860s,
boarding schools were run by the
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federal government but also the
religious boarding schools...
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Baptist boarding schools,
Catholic boarding schools.
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There were several
agents that Crows feared.
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They would steal kids and they
were called "kid catchers."
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They would literally strip the
kids from the homes at very
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early ages... I mean,
we're talking, like,
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five, six years old... and
ship them off to the boarding
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schools.
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The boarding
schools wanted to get rid of the
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Native way of life.
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If they spoke their
language, they were beaten.
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If they...
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tried singing a
song that we had,
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they were beaten.
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My great-grandmother, her
name was Jenny Bad Horse.
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The agents came and they took
her to a boarding school,
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and the meat they
ate was spoiled meat,
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and she was so used to it
that, even in her old age,
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she would make the
meat turn a little bit,
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and that's the way she ate it.
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And so...
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it was sad.
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And she would talk about how
she couldn't speak her language.
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We lost our way of life.
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Our clan system, our
songs, our dances,
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our language...
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our norms, mores, because
of boarding school.
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So there was some success on
behalf of the US government
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trying to do away with
Native way of life.
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The people in charge
of the schools molested our
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children, generations of
children being subjected to
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sexual assault, and then coming
back into our communities.
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Those traumas and these cycles
of abuse were carried forward.
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And so the molestation that
they were subjected to goes into
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generations carrying that.
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For a lot of people, these
cycles of abuse are hard to
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break.
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There was entire generations of
Crow people that were taught not
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how to be mothers and fathers
because they were raised by the
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schools.
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So this idea of loving homes and
all of that goes right out the
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window.
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When you raise a society with
those kinds of social issues in
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survival mode, their kids grow
up with those same issues.
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Typically, there'd be
one parent or no parents,
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kids living with grandparents.
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And even if their parents
were in the house,
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they weren't raising their kids.
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Kids would be
raising themselves...
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Not to the extent
that I see these days,
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but the amount of
broken families,
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children on their own, and
the overall dysfunction,
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it just was everywhere.
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It becomes a self-destructive
cycle of shame and degradation
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amongst the people, which is
exactly what the government
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wanted; they wanted
us to self-destruct.
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And we didn't self-destruct, we
just learned how to live within
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the dysfunction.
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It's heavy, it's hard,
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and it's heartbreaking.
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These families, they're
still trying to heal from the
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heartache.
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So much of it is this
generations of trauma that we
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haven't had the
opportunity to heal from,
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and this ongoing lack of feeling
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that we have value in the world.
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When we internalize that, we see
it play out in higher rates of
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domestic violence
in our communities,
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these cycles of abuse,
these cycles of addiction.
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So I think we start to see
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this Native-on-Native violence.
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Ominous ambient music
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Pull over.
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When a crime is committed
in the Native community,
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sometimes it's easier for us to
blame an outsider coming in than
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it is to really look
inwardly and say,
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"Okay...
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we're doing a lot of
stuff to ourselves, too."
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We can be the villain of
our own stories as well.
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When we look at the
Henny Scott case,
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Kaysera Stops Pretty Places,
and Selena Not Afraid cases,
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I think that if there
is any foul play,
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then it would have been
someone that the girls knew.
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The night in question
when that happened,
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those are all people in
the Native community.
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The three girls
Henny Scott is found dead and
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yet she was at a house party...
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Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, she
was at a house party and found
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dead in the next yard...
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and Selena was at a house party
and found dead out in a field.
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It all goes together.
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I believe local Indian men lure
young girls there to come and
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party with them and get
them drunk and stuff,
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and somebody'll
suddenly disappear.
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They're Native
Americans doing this to each
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other.
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The proud people are
doing it to themselves.
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We're not supposed to do that.
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We do have situations
where our own tribal members are
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committing acts of violence
against other tribal members.
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In a lot of Native communities,
there is this idea that there's
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this white boogeyman, that
there's someone from the outside
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that's coming in to harm us.
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And the majority of the violence
that our Native women are
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subjected to is from
non-Native people but,
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to some extent, we've started to
internalize some of that and...
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do these things
to our own people.
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But I think the main
vulnerability really is this
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hole for accountability
in our Native communities.
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All too often, when the
victim is an Indian person,
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it just falls
through the cracks.
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What we do here
really feels like a war,
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like, the trauma
that we go through.
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And I feel like it's exacerbated
when we add in a murdered and
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missing persons crisis
in Big Horn County.
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My Crow name translates
to "Keeps Things Good."
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I've never actually tried
to live up to this name,
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but somehow along
the way, I have.
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Sharing their stories
is so important,
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and I'm doing my
part as, you know,
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an Indigenous woman and as
a journalist to inform and
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protect.
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Well, nearly two years after
the body of a Crow tribal woman
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was found facedown in the
backyard of a Hardin home,
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the Big Horn County
Attorney says,
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"The death of 18-year-old
Kaysera Stops Pretty Places is
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not forgotten and is still
under investigation."
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We
waited, and finally,
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almost two years to the
day Kaysera went missing,
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the County Attorney
released a public report.
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It was pretty vague.
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There wasn't a lot
of detail in it.
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There were no names.
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And we're not quite sure if
there was an investigation into
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the people involved
in her last days.
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We know that
testimony was taken,
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they were questioned...
We know that...
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But we don't know how far the
investigation went into those
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people.
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18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty
Places went missing on August
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24th, 2019.
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Five days later, her body was
found by a jogger along Mitchell
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Avenue.
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This one is Kaysera's memorial,
but she was found on the other
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side of the fence.
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Due to the decomposition, they
had to go into dental records to
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identify her officially.
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The cause and manner of
death are undetermined.
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There's still a lot of
mystery surrounding this case.
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But at the same time,
I don't think that...
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that sheriff's office has ever
been equipped for a murder
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investigation.
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Would you mind
taking some over there?
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I don't mind at all.
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Okay, great.
Should I take two?
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There's some more there
if you need... take!
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- Okay.
- Take four.
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I think it would do, four.
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Tense ambient music
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Kaysera was the first
case I took on in Montana.
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That really opened my eyes to
how many barriers are in place
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to a family who's
fighting to get justice.
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Do you just want
"Justice for Kaysera?"
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Is that what you want?
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- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay.
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This is a family who has
worked tirelessly and advocated
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tirelessly, and they still can't
get a law enforcement agency to
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undertake an actual
investigation.
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All these
names out here, right?
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These are all our relatives
who are missing or murdered.
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I know every single family here
who's lost a loved one has had
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doors slammed in their face.
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You've had law enforcement
refuse to talk to you.
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After Kaysera's murder in 2019,
we were writing letters and
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emails and phone calls to the
Big Horn County Sheriff's Office
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and the FBI saying, "Hey, here
are the names of the people who
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last saw her."
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And really nothing
was ever done.
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And so we're
not going away, right?
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We're gonna keep demanding
justice until we get the justice
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that we deserve.
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Big Horn County Sheriff's
Office might claim to have
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investigated the people Kaysera
was with the night she went
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missing.
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I don't have any evidence to
indicate they actually did.
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Today is May 5th.
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It's a National Day of Awareness
for Missing and Murdered
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Indigenous Persons.
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President Biden has proclaimed
it to be a national day.
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The rally that was happening
here today was organized by
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Yolanda Fraser.
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She's Kaysera's
paternal grandmother.
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She invited all the families in
Big Horn County who have lost a
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loved one to demand justice
for all of the 44 victims
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who have been murdered or
gone missing in this area.
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So, in your case, with
the family of Kaysera,
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what are the next steps?
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We had our first meeting
with an agent from the Missing
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- and Murdered Unit this morning.
- Mm-hm.
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This unit was actually started
during President Trump's
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administration; it was called
Operation Lady Justice Task
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Force.
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This office had our letter
asking them to investigate
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Kaysera's case.
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It took a year and a half for
them to agree to just talk to
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the family.
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Secretary Haaland became the
first Native secretary in the
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history of the
Department of Interior.
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She transformed it into the
Missing and Murdered Unit.
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At the Department of Interior,
we will have a Missing and
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Murdered Unit that will focus
specifically on this crisis.
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We're being told by President
Biden and Secretary Haaland that
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this unit of BIA law
officers, the MMU,
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is what's going to solve the
problem for missing and murdered
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indigenous persons.
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Did anything new or fruitful
come out of that meeting?
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He engaged, he was
very respectful,
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he listened to everything
they had to say,
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and then sort of was very honest
and said that there really isn't
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anything at this time that the
MMU can do since her body was
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found outside of federal
jurisdiction because it was 300
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yards off the border of
the Crow Reservation.
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If the Big Horn County
Sheriff's Office were to say,
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"MMU, we want your help," then
the MMU would investigate her
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murder.
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But then the Big Horn County
Sheriff's Office is refusing to
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consent to that, and that's why
the MMU can't do anything for
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Kaysera's family.
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What is the point of the MMU if
you're not gonna work on cases
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where local law enforcement
sometimes is corrupt,
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or prejudiced, or doesn't
prioritize or value Native
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lives?
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And so, when is the federal
government gonna show up,
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and when are they going
to work on these cases?
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Because we just continue to
lose Native lives out here.
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We've got a murder of an
18-year-old girl that no one's
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investigating.
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Everyone's trying to blame
everyone else or say,
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"Oh, it's not my responsibility
because it's 300 yards off of
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where my responsibility starts."
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Even in this administration,
with a president that says he
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really cares about this
issue, we're still being told,
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"No, we can't help you.
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No, there's nothing we can do."
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Kaysera's life ended in 2019,
but there's still information
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out there that can be found.
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There are still people that know
what happened to her that can be
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talked to.
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Poor Kaysera,
it was so tragic.
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I mean, it happened so
fast and quick that...
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we never...
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expected to lose
her the way we did.
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Mm-hm.
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I want closure.
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Yeah, I do want closure for
Kaysera 'cause she deserves it;
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she deserves justice.
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So I know this is probably
gonna be difficult,
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but I wanted to talk to you
about the timeline of events
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that happened when
Kaysera went missing.
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Well, she...
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See, she went out August 24th.
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She had her best
friend with her.
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Her name was Nakia.
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And at the time, we had Isabella
Villegas living with us;
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she's my cousin.
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And...
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they wanted to take her out.
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I was like, "Okay, well, I want
you guys back at midnight."
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They went out...
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and Kaysera never came home.
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One of the things that I had
read in the public report was
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that...
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there were people in a driveway
along the houses in the area.
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Yeah, because she was at a
house next door from where her
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body was found.
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And they were there with a male,
who was the one that provided
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the alcohol.
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Do you know that man's name?
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Natosi Summers.
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Do you know where he's from?
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His mother is Crow.
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His father...
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He's from a different
tribe; I don't know exactly.
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But his mother is the one that
has the house in town there on
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Rangeview.
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Tense ambient music
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In Kaysera's case,
I wanna know who she was with
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the night that she died
and what they were doing.
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I wanna know why she
was in that yard...
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and why she just
laid down and died.
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What could have possibly
happened and how could it be
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undetermined?
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That's where Natosi
lives with his grandmother.
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is not available.
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After the prompt, please
record your message.
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Hey, Malisa, it's
Luella Brien calling.
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I just wanted to give you an
opportunity to see if Natosi
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wanted to talk to me.
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He's not a
minor, but Natosi's mom,
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she's the family spokesperson.
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She's a lawyer.
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I think this one is difficult
because there's been so much
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rumor and conjecture
surrounding it.
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And the people that I'm trying
to pin down are people that
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those rumors are...
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about.
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I'm on my way to Lodge Grass.
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Nakia Spotted Horse lives
just outside of town,
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and she was one of the people
that was last seen with Kaysera
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Stops Pretty Places, and she's
actually agreed to give me an
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interview.
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She has not spoken
to media at all,
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so what I get from Nakia
today will be completely new
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information for the public.
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Okay.
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Thank you for coming.
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I really appreciate it.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Tell me about the night
that you lost her.
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So it's August 24th,
it's Saturday night.
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When you got to her
house, what was the plan?
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I was there
with Kaysera and Isabella.
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We were just gonna wait 'til
the nighttime and just head out.
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To do...?
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Party and...
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drink.
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Tense ambient music
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Isabella, she said that her baby
daddy Natosi could be a buyer.
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Oh, okay.
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So we
went to his house.
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So
that would be you,
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Kaysera, Isabella, and Natosi?
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Yeah.
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And then
what happens after that?
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We were
just drinking,
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and Isabella and Natosi,
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we could hear them
arguing downstairs.
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And then he came
and grabbed her.
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Mm-hm.
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He was just holding onto her,
and she didn't know what to do
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'cause she was trying
to pull away from him.
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So Kaysera stepped
in and was like,
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"Hey, leave her alone!
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Quit doing that!
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She don't have to stay!"
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We walked out the house, and I
remember he ran down the road
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and he grabbed
her and was, like,
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trying to say sorry
and ask her to stay.
499
00:29:02,936 --> 00:29:04,172
And I remember, at
the end of the road,
500
00:29:04,196 --> 00:29:06,996
we got in front of that house,
and they were yelling around at
501
00:29:07,116 --> 00:29:09,502
each other, and then me and
Kaysera didn't know what to do
502
00:29:09,526 --> 00:29:10,586
'cause, like...
503
00:29:10,786 --> 00:29:12,376
they weren't listening to us.
504
00:29:12,576 --> 00:29:13,876
Yeah.
505
00:29:14,076 --> 00:29:16,512
And then that's when I looked
over and then that car was,
506
00:29:16,536 --> 00:29:18,762
like, going, like, chk-chk,
locking and unlocking.
507
00:29:24,876 --> 00:29:27,266
And then a cop went by
and it, like, scared us.
508
00:29:27,466 --> 00:29:30,746
Everyone just kind of panicked
and started taking off.
509
00:29:30,946 --> 00:29:32,816
We kind of just all
lost each other,
510
00:29:33,016 --> 00:29:35,646
and I was hiding under a truck.
511
00:29:35,846 --> 00:29:38,656
I waited there for a while.
512
00:29:38,856 --> 00:29:41,446
That's when Isabella was
like, "Where's Kaysera?"
513
00:29:41,646 --> 00:29:44,036
And I was like, "I don't know!"
514
00:29:44,236 --> 00:29:48,076
We were yelling her name, and
she wasn't saying nothing,
515
00:29:48,276 --> 00:29:50,116
and then we didn't
see her anywhere.
516
00:29:53,826 --> 00:29:56,706
We started to walk
back to Natosi's house,
517
00:29:56,916 --> 00:30:00,176
and then Natosi was pulling
out of his driveway.
518
00:30:00,376 --> 00:30:03,346
And when he saw us, he started
going faster and kind of chased
519
00:30:03,546 --> 00:30:05,796
us with his truck.
520
00:30:06,636 --> 00:30:08,036
So where did you guys go then?
521
00:30:08,176 --> 00:30:09,902
We ran
through these houses,
522
00:30:09,926 --> 00:30:13,056
and he was following us
in the alleys and stuff.
523
00:30:13,256 --> 00:30:14,516
And it scared us.
524
00:30:14,716 --> 00:30:18,186
We, like, cut around that house
and hid into these bushes,
525
00:30:18,386 --> 00:30:21,526
and then we saw him drive by,
and he drove by real fast,
526
00:30:21,726 --> 00:30:23,736
like he was looking for us.
527
00:30:23,936 --> 00:30:26,196
We saw him go back to his house.
528
00:30:26,396 --> 00:30:28,422
And then that's when
Isabella started crying,
529
00:30:28,446 --> 00:30:30,036
"I'm scared, I wanna go back."
530
00:30:30,236 --> 00:30:31,916
And then that's
when I just said,
531
00:30:32,116 --> 00:30:33,746
"Well...
532
00:30:33,946 --> 00:30:35,552
Kaysera will probably
go back home.
533
00:30:35,576 --> 00:30:36,246
She's smart.
534
00:30:36,446 --> 00:30:38,586
She always... she
always comes back,
535
00:30:38,786 --> 00:30:39,966
and she'll be back."
536
00:30:40,166 --> 00:30:43,716
So we took off back
to Percelia's house.
537
00:30:45,256 --> 00:30:47,886
When you guys were
yelling for her,
538
00:30:48,086 --> 00:30:51,806
you were still in that immediate
area where the house was.
539
00:30:52,006 --> 00:30:53,976
And you didn't hear anything?
540
00:30:54,176 --> 00:30:56,766
You didn't hear her
rustling in bushes,
541
00:30:56,976 --> 00:30:57,976
you didn't hear...
542
00:30:58,096 --> 00:31:00,726
There was no response?
543
00:31:01,856 --> 00:31:04,646
Oh my goodness.
544
00:31:04,986 --> 00:31:09,946
What kind of stuff did you know
about Natosi before this night?
545
00:31:10,146 --> 00:31:14,326
I don't really think
I knew who he was.
546
00:31:14,526 --> 00:31:18,956
I don't think I ever met
him or heard about him.
547
00:31:26,926 --> 00:31:31,926
tense ambient music
548
00:31:32,716 --> 00:31:36,806
What I want to do
is either speak to Natosi or
549
00:31:37,016 --> 00:31:41,936
speak to Isabella to
tell their stories.
550
00:31:44,776 --> 00:31:48,906
Reaching them is incredibly
difficult because...
551
00:31:50,616 --> 00:31:55,036
I had texted Natosi's
mom previously.
552
00:31:55,236 --> 00:31:58,746
She said that she
would think about...
553
00:31:58,946 --> 00:32:02,626
possibly letting
him do an interview.
554
00:32:07,046 --> 00:32:08,546
Hi, it's Luella.
555
00:32:08,756 --> 00:32:11,482
I was just wondering if you had
given any more thought to an
556
00:32:11,506 --> 00:32:13,636
interview with Natosi.
557
00:32:13,836 --> 00:32:17,186
I just want to make sure I give
you every opportunity to have
558
00:32:17,386 --> 00:32:19,856
that interview.
559
00:32:33,156 --> 00:32:36,496
I texted his
mother one more time,
560
00:32:36,696 --> 00:32:41,626
and she wasn't too
pleasant in her response.
561
00:32:42,666 --> 00:32:45,676
Basically, I
shouldn't bother them.
562
00:32:45,876 --> 00:32:50,046
His family says he didn't
do anything to her.
563
00:33:00,596 --> 00:33:03,316
We're heading over to the
Big Horn County courthouse.
564
00:33:03,426 --> 00:33:07,276
I gotta fill out a couple of
forms to get public information
565
00:33:07,476 --> 00:33:09,906
for, um...
566
00:33:10,106 --> 00:33:13,026
Kaysera's case.
567
00:33:14,986 --> 00:33:18,706
I hear a lot of
outcry from the public about how
568
00:33:18,906 --> 00:33:22,036
the County Attorney's Office
is not doing their job,
569
00:33:22,246 --> 00:33:26,916
but I see lack of investigation
on the part of the Sheriff's
570
00:33:27,126 --> 00:33:29,086
Office.
571
00:33:30,506 --> 00:33:33,926
Because that's where any County
Attorney's Office is gonna get
572
00:33:34,126 --> 00:33:35,766
their evidence.
573
00:33:37,426 --> 00:33:39,112
Hi, this message
is for Jeramie Middlestead.
574
00:33:39,136 --> 00:33:42,566
I'm writing a story about the
Kaysera Stops Pretty Places case
575
00:33:42,766 --> 00:33:45,186
and I wanted to get
some input from you.
576
00:33:45,386 --> 00:33:49,026
Jeramie Middlestead
took the initial police report
577
00:33:49,226 --> 00:33:51,566
for the disappearance
of Kaysera.
578
00:33:54,146 --> 00:33:56,586
Trying to talk to law
enforcement is like pulling
579
00:33:56,646 --> 00:33:57,646
teeth.
580
00:33:57,776 --> 00:34:00,496
It's incredibly difficult.
581
00:34:00,696 --> 00:34:02,762
Nobody in the Big
Horn County Sheriff's Office
582
00:34:02,786 --> 00:34:05,756
would ever even return your
calls to do an interview with
583
00:34:05,956 --> 00:34:08,166
you while they're
still employed there.
584
00:34:08,366 --> 00:34:10,816
They just wouldn't do it.
585
00:34:11,016 --> 00:34:13,176
I'm in Idaho, I'm not
in Montana anymore,
586
00:34:13,376 --> 00:34:18,346
so, you know, their tentacles
can't reach me here.
587
00:34:19,306 --> 00:34:20,976
I'd have never
done it in Montana.
588
00:34:21,176 --> 00:34:22,556
Never.
589
00:34:22,756 --> 00:34:25,322
The Sheriff's Office in Big Horn
County would have retribution
590
00:34:25,346 --> 00:34:26,786
against you if you spoke up.
591
00:34:26,926 --> 00:34:29,066
They'd just make
your life hell there.
592
00:34:29,266 --> 00:34:31,066
You'd have to move.
593
00:34:31,486 --> 00:34:35,236
I don't appear today
in my official capacity as the
594
00:34:35,436 --> 00:34:39,406
undersheriff for Big
Horn County, Montana.
595
00:34:39,606 --> 00:34:43,996
I came to the conclusion that
I would have to come in my
596
00:34:44,196 --> 00:34:47,956
personal capacity as a dad.
597
00:34:52,036 --> 00:34:55,006
The Big Horn County
sheriffs really are hands-off
598
00:34:55,206 --> 00:34:56,686
when it comes to the media.
599
00:34:56,796 --> 00:35:01,516
BIA and FBI has a no-media
policy in place for unsolved
600
00:35:01,716 --> 00:35:06,396
cases, so law enforcement
hasn't given anyone any clarity.
601
00:35:06,596 --> 00:35:08,322
The mailbox
is full and cannot accept any
602
00:35:08,346 --> 00:35:10,896
messages at this time.
603
00:35:12,276 --> 00:35:14,776
Tense ambient music
604
00:35:14,976 --> 00:35:18,236
Kaysera's case is
one of many cases they have
605
00:35:18,436 --> 00:35:22,116
mishandled and failed
to investigate.
606
00:35:23,906 --> 00:35:26,262
Still to this day, there's
evidence there that hasn't been
607
00:35:26,286 --> 00:35:27,546
collected.
608
00:35:27,746 --> 00:35:29,722
There are witnesses that
haven't been interviewed.
609
00:35:29,746 --> 00:35:34,046
But knowing what we know about
this sheriff's office and this
610
00:35:34,246 --> 00:35:36,046
criminal justice
system in Montana,
611
00:35:36,246 --> 00:35:39,126
I think law enforcement will
leave it where it is unless we
612
00:35:39,256 --> 00:35:42,726
build up enough public pressure
and momentum that requires them
613
00:35:42,926 --> 00:35:45,176
to do their job.
614
00:35:45,386 --> 00:35:48,226
But it is a crisis
in Indian country.
615
00:35:48,426 --> 00:35:51,066
You have jurisdictional
issues, and oftentimes,
616
00:35:51,266 --> 00:35:54,736
in border towns, you've got law
officers and sheriffs who do not
617
00:35:54,936 --> 00:35:58,196
respect Native lives and have no
desire to do anything to save a
618
00:35:58,396 --> 00:36:00,832
Native life or to investigate
who may have murdered a Native
619
00:36:00,856 --> 00:36:02,986
woman or girl.
620
00:36:07,206 --> 00:36:10,086
- What do we want?!
- Justice!
621
00:36:10,286 --> 00:36:12,802
Nearly a thousand
people made their way down 27th
622
00:36:12,826 --> 00:36:15,262
Street, finishing at the
Yellowstone County Courthouse
623
00:36:15,286 --> 00:36:16,636
lawn.
624
00:36:16,836 --> 00:36:20,716
Murdered and missing women have
gone on far before it has come
625
00:36:20,916 --> 00:36:22,426
to attention!
626
00:36:22,626 --> 00:36:26,846
I had to decide if I was gonna
stay quiet or if I was gonna
627
00:36:27,046 --> 00:36:31,606
stay loud, because there are so
many that haven't been brought
628
00:36:31,806 --> 00:36:33,686
back.
629
00:36:33,886 --> 00:36:36,486
I have to be here; I
have to be advocating.
630
00:36:36,686 --> 00:36:38,526
If I don't, who will?
631
00:36:38,726 --> 00:36:41,606
When they close your case and
put it in a filing cabinet,
632
00:36:41,646 --> 00:36:43,286
that's a bad thing.
633
00:36:43,486 --> 00:36:46,206
So that's why you keep
advocating for your loved ones.
634
00:36:46,406 --> 00:36:50,206
Keep saying their names because
once their names are forgotten,
635
00:36:50,406 --> 00:36:52,956
once you stop, they're done.
636
00:36:53,156 --> 00:36:55,262
In a lot of our
traditions, they're told,
637
00:36:55,286 --> 00:36:55,506
"Forget about 'em."
638
00:36:55,706 --> 00:36:56,466
You don't talk about 'em.
639
00:36:56,666 --> 00:36:58,176
You let 'em go."
640
00:36:58,376 --> 00:37:00,062
Why would you forget
about somebody?
641
00:37:00,086 --> 00:37:02,216
Why would you wanna do that?
642
00:37:02,416 --> 00:37:05,176
We've got families 25, 30 years
later finally able to say,
643
00:37:05,376 --> 00:37:07,266
"Hey, what about my sister?
644
00:37:07,466 --> 00:37:09,556
What about my mom?"
645
00:37:10,226 --> 00:37:13,316
Our
life without Henny is...
646
00:37:13,516 --> 00:37:15,106
very hard.
647
00:37:15,306 --> 00:37:19,736
I can't mourn her death
because of the anger I feel.
648
00:37:19,936 --> 00:37:21,502
Don't
give up on Shacaiah.
649
00:37:21,526 --> 00:37:24,946
Her being so strong-willed,
she's still fighting.
650
00:37:25,146 --> 00:37:29,166
And I hope that she knows that
we're still fighting for her.
651
00:37:29,366 --> 00:37:30,882
Kaysera
deserves justice.
652
00:37:30,906 --> 00:37:35,006
She would take the shirt off
of her back to help others.
653
00:37:35,206 --> 00:37:37,876
Why couldn't they
do that for her?
654
00:37:38,076 --> 00:37:41,506
Selena shouldn't
have gone through this.
655
00:37:41,706 --> 00:37:45,306
There should be justice for
her more than what she got.
656
00:37:45,506 --> 00:37:48,346
Tense ambient music
657
00:37:48,546 --> 00:37:51,146
Since these doors back
here are closed to us,
658
00:37:51,346 --> 00:37:55,186
the justice that we need,
answers that we need,
659
00:37:55,386 --> 00:37:56,386
we don't get it.
660
00:37:56,556 --> 00:37:57,782
I just wanna tell
everybody, "Don't give up.
661
00:37:57,806 --> 00:37:58,566
Don't give up."
662
00:37:58,766 --> 00:38:00,246
I want justice.
663
00:38:00,436 --> 00:38:03,446
I want to keep pushing and get
these officials to do the job
664
00:38:03,646 --> 00:38:05,486
that they're
supposed to be doing.
665
00:38:05,686 --> 00:38:09,286
This is what Kaysera
would have been doing.
666
00:38:09,486 --> 00:38:13,286
She was an advocate for
anybody that was an underdog.
667
00:38:13,486 --> 00:38:16,302
I didn't know who to go to, I
didn't know what to do in my
668
00:38:16,326 --> 00:38:18,876
situation, and...
669
00:38:19,076 --> 00:38:20,626
it took a while.
670
00:38:20,836 --> 00:38:23,386
I believe if it
didn't take that long,
671
00:38:23,586 --> 00:38:26,386
that we would have found her,
and she would've still been with
672
00:38:26,416 --> 00:38:27,636
us.
673
00:38:27,836 --> 00:38:31,016
I have no faith
in our justice system.
674
00:38:31,216 --> 00:38:33,356
When I pass that
sign of Henny's,
675
00:38:33,556 --> 00:38:35,436
I wanna find justice for her,
676
00:38:35,636 --> 00:38:38,856
that she didn't
pass for nothing.
677
00:38:39,056 --> 00:38:40,736
She's spreading awareness.
678
00:38:40,936 --> 00:38:42,446
I want her to be remembered.
679
00:38:42,646 --> 00:38:44,986
Justice for Henny!
680
00:38:45,186 --> 00:38:47,712
May 5th is National
Missing and Murdered Indigenous
681
00:38:47,736 --> 00:38:49,366
Person's Awareness Day.
682
00:38:49,566 --> 00:38:51,462
There are many events
across the country to highlight
683
00:38:51,486 --> 00:38:54,086
the huge problem facing
Native American communities.
684
00:38:54,196 --> 00:38:57,706
No more stolen sisters!
685
00:38:58,456 --> 00:39:01,376
It's light and dark;
it's like out of the worst,
686
00:39:01,416 --> 00:39:03,796
most horrifying thing
that could ever happen,
687
00:39:03,996 --> 00:39:07,806
we're able to see this community
of mothers and families who have
688
00:39:08,006 --> 00:39:10,976
lost their loved ones coming
together and offering each other
689
00:39:11,176 --> 00:39:15,226
support, and the love that we
show each other as community
690
00:39:15,426 --> 00:39:18,936
members through
this is that light.
691
00:39:19,136 --> 00:39:22,356
When push comes to shove,
our people are resilient,
692
00:39:22,556 --> 00:39:24,196
our people care
about each other,
693
00:39:24,396 --> 00:39:27,406
and we support each other.
694
00:39:27,606 --> 00:39:32,536
Emotional music
695
00:39:47,046 --> 00:39:50,006
I don't
ever come over here.
696
00:39:52,966 --> 00:39:56,426
I don't think your grandma and
papa ever come here either.
697
00:39:58,016 --> 00:40:00,816
Sensitive ambient music
698
00:40:01,016 --> 00:40:03,896
You know how your
papa had a sister?
699
00:40:04,896 --> 00:40:08,986
Her name was Beverly...
Beverly Diane...
700
00:40:09,186 --> 00:40:11,286
And everybody
called her "DeeDee."
701
00:40:14,276 --> 00:40:18,496
When they found her,
they found her over here,
702
00:40:18,696 --> 00:40:20,746
somewhere between...
703
00:40:20,956 --> 00:40:23,336
the cattle chutes and the fence.
704
00:40:29,546 --> 00:40:34,596
Gosh, she was 16 when
that happened to her.
705
00:40:36,306 --> 00:40:39,396
And your grandparents,
they won't...
706
00:40:39,596 --> 00:40:42,396
they won't really talk about it.
707
00:40:44,146 --> 00:40:45,146
Come here over here.
708
00:40:45,186 --> 00:40:47,406
Come stand by me.
709
00:40:53,866 --> 00:40:55,906
Do you know why they
don't talk about it?
710
00:40:56,116 --> 00:40:58,366
'Cause it's sad.
711
00:40:59,656 --> 00:41:03,876
In my family, I
don't think my parents have come
712
00:41:04,076 --> 00:41:08,136
to a place of acceptance yet
for what happened to my dad's
713
00:41:08,336 --> 00:41:10,126
sister.
714
00:41:10,376 --> 00:41:15,556
I don't think that any of
us can tell them it's okay.
715
00:41:16,756 --> 00:41:19,556
I mean, we've tried.
716
00:41:19,756 --> 00:41:22,646
I think they hold
onto a lot of guilt.
717
00:41:23,516 --> 00:41:26,316
And...
718
00:41:26,976 --> 00:41:29,566
I don't think that, um...
719
00:41:29,766 --> 00:41:31,526
I don't think they'll
ever get there,
720
00:41:31,566 --> 00:41:33,656
really.
721
00:41:35,946 --> 00:41:40,866
People who have lost a family
member tragically like this...
722
00:41:41,746 --> 00:41:46,216
there's a guilt associated with
723
00:41:46,416 --> 00:41:48,626
moving on.
724
00:41:48,826 --> 00:41:51,096
If they move
through their grief,
725
00:41:51,296 --> 00:41:53,426
then they're
forgetting that person.
726
00:42:00,476 --> 00:42:04,186
They were one of
the last people that saw her.
727
00:42:04,806 --> 00:42:07,646
I think that's why
I'm so overly protective of you
728
00:42:07,766 --> 00:42:09,276
guys...
729
00:42:09,476 --> 00:42:12,856
'cause I'm so scared
something's going to happen.
730
00:42:16,316 --> 00:42:19,866
My daughter's
gonna be 13 and...
731
00:42:20,066 --> 00:42:23,576
has already had a
target on her...
732
00:42:25,206 --> 00:42:30,206
just simply by being born a
female Native in this area.
733
00:42:31,206 --> 00:42:36,216
Tense ambient music
734
00:42:39,096 --> 00:42:43,646
That, in itself,
makes me fearful,
735
00:42:43,846 --> 00:42:47,556
but it also makes me more
vigilant as a parent.
736
00:42:48,766 --> 00:42:53,566
Everything, really, that
I do with her is based in
737
00:42:54,946 --> 00:42:59,576
situational awareness
and keeping her safe.
738
00:43:01,196 --> 00:43:06,246
And that feeling of being
in danger goes back...
739
00:43:07,246 --> 00:43:08,972
My generation, my
mother's generation,
740
00:43:08,996 --> 00:43:11,586
my grandmother's generation.
741
00:43:11,836 --> 00:43:15,086
It makes up who we are.
742
00:43:15,336 --> 00:43:19,806
I feel like it's part of the
fabric of Native women in this
743
00:43:20,006 --> 00:43:22,216
community.
744
00:43:23,466 --> 00:43:28,516
We grow up thinking that
survival is culture,
745
00:43:29,896 --> 00:43:33,946
and pretty soon, we're doing
things that we think are
746
00:43:34,146 --> 00:43:36,702
cultural practices when
really, they're just survival
747
00:43:36,726 --> 00:43:38,616
techniques.
748
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We have to think, "Okay, what
can we do to preserve what we
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have left?"
750
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And figure out what
to do to thrive.
751
00:43:57,006 --> 00:43:58,852
I think sometimes,
we're trying to find a
752
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non-Indian solution
for a Native problem.
753
00:44:02,376 --> 00:44:06,516
The majority of us don't look
to our culture for the answer.
754
00:44:06,716 --> 00:44:08,686
Tense ambient music
755
00:44:08,886 --> 00:44:13,606
Traditionally, we believe that
tribal members hold value.
756
00:44:16,396 --> 00:44:18,606
That you're something.
757
00:44:19,276 --> 00:44:22,696
That you have self-respect;
that you were made by the most
758
00:44:22,906 --> 00:44:25,946
Our universe.
759
00:44:26,196 --> 00:44:29,086
That they took mud from the
ground and the Creator breathed
760
00:44:29,286 --> 00:44:31,296
into it...
761
00:44:31,496 --> 00:44:34,746
and then placed life into it.
762
00:44:34,996 --> 00:44:37,426
And said,...
763
00:44:37,626 --> 00:44:39,266
"The people on top
of the ground."
764
00:44:51,146 --> 00:44:54,186
So, at that point, it's no
longer a male and a female
765
00:44:54,386 --> 00:44:55,606
thing.
766
00:44:55,806 --> 00:44:57,856
We hold value and we
know we're something.
767
00:44:58,066 --> 00:45:02,946
Drumming and chanting
768
00:45:04,446 --> 00:45:06,132
Then he said,...
769
00:45:06,156 --> 00:45:08,416
"You're the ones beside me."
770
00:45:08,616 --> 00:45:10,956
That's not a place
to be discarded.
771
00:45:11,156 --> 00:45:16,086
Tense ambient music
772
00:45:18,046 --> 00:45:20,966
If we just return
to those values,
773
00:45:21,166 --> 00:45:24,766
nobody can be hurt
within that system,
774
00:45:24,966 --> 00:45:27,976
because the traditional Crow
value places the women at a very
775
00:45:28,176 --> 00:45:29,646
high position.
776
00:45:35,056 --> 00:45:37,986
Pre-colonization, violence
against Native women was not
777
00:45:38,186 --> 00:45:39,566
tolerated.
778
00:45:39,766 --> 00:45:43,076
Our communities, our tribes
held perpetrators accountable,
779
00:45:43,276 --> 00:45:47,156
and in the very few
instances when it did happen,
780
00:45:47,356 --> 00:45:49,746
it was addressed.
781
00:45:50,956 --> 00:45:53,996
Because women form the
backbone of our communities,
782
00:45:54,196 --> 00:45:57,796
their safety forms the
foundation for the safety of our
783
00:45:57,996 --> 00:46:00,086
communities.
784
00:46:01,336 --> 00:46:02,982
When we protect
our Native women,
785
00:46:03,006 --> 00:46:05,556
we're able to
protect our families.
786
00:46:05,756 --> 00:46:07,426
It extends out.
787
00:46:07,626 --> 00:46:10,646
We're able to see
strong communities,
788
00:46:10,846 --> 00:46:13,306
strong nations.
789
00:46:14,766 --> 00:46:19,856
Success in all aspects of our
community comes from the home
790
00:46:20,056 --> 00:46:23,076
and the home being a safe place.
791
00:46:23,276 --> 00:46:27,496
It's time that we go back to our
traditional teachings that women
792
00:46:27,696 --> 00:46:30,666
are sacred, that violence
does not have a place in our
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00:46:30,866 --> 00:46:32,786
community.
794
00:46:32,986 --> 00:46:37,296
Tense ambient music
795
00:46:37,496 --> 00:46:40,626
In order
for us to have hope,
796
00:46:40,826 --> 00:46:45,796
we have to see a future
that doesn't include...
797
00:46:47,676 --> 00:46:52,176
murdered and missing
indigenous women and girls.
798
00:46:55,186 --> 00:46:58,686
I can't see that future yet.
799
00:47:04,776 --> 00:47:08,246
But these stories
have to be told.
800
00:47:08,446 --> 00:47:13,406
These girls were
incredibly bright...
801
00:47:14,156 --> 00:47:16,456
talented...
802
00:47:16,656 --> 00:47:20,716
and worthy of living,
803
00:47:20,916 --> 00:47:25,836
not because they
were Native women...
804
00:47:26,466 --> 00:47:30,676
not because they were
somebody's daughter,
805
00:47:30,876 --> 00:47:34,806
but simply because
they were human beings.
806
00:47:35,006 --> 00:47:39,066
And we're all worthy of living,
we're all worthy of a good life,
807
00:47:39,266 --> 00:47:41,736
because we're human.
808
00:47:41,936 --> 00:47:46,856
Emotional music
809
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ominous ambient music
810
00:49:13,566 --> 00:49:18,616
tense ambient music
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