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Woman singing in Crow

ominous music

When I was growing up on the Crow Reservation,

we never locked the doors.

Nobody locked their doors.

But the darkness that has happened in the last decade...

is this...

energy that's...

like a black cloud, a vapor.

That energy just consumes you as an individual.

Then, it consumes your family...

until it consumes your whole tribe.

The last time I saw her was two days before she went

missing.

She never made it home.

Not knowing where she's at,

if she's alive, if she's gone.

Buried, not found, lost,

murdered, still missing.

We're the silent population that disappears.

Tense music

We were supposed to be eliminated.

We weren't supposed to be a problem to the American life.

We're just supposed to stay in the back and be a good Indian.

That's what you do here in Montana.

Multiple families are grieving over teenage girls.

What the hell is going on in this community?

Someone knows what happened.

That someone is still walking around here.

Dramatic music

sparse tense music

tense ambient music

When I started walking, I smelled...

like the smell of death.

I know the smell of death and it...

it's not a good smell.

I hear this little, small voice say,

"Dad.

Come find me, Dad."

A devastating ending to the search

for a 14-year-old Montana girl.

Her body was found Friday on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation

near Lame Deer.

Today, we confirmed that the body was Henny Scott.

Tender music

Henny was the middle child.

She really adored her younger siblings.

And she had all kinds of friends.

Henny was tomboyish.

She liked to play football, and she played a lot of basketball.

She was pretty good in basketball.

The day Henny went missing, she asked if she could go to open

gym down here at the school.

She was a freshman at the time.

Later on that afternoon, she called from a residence.

The name had come up on the caller ID so I knew where she

was calling from.

It's kind of like a party place where all the teenagers go to

party and hang out.

There's no adult supervision.

So I told her, "You need to come back home."

And that's the last time I heard from Henny.

Say hi, Snapchat.

Tense ambient music

The night Henny went missing, I heard there was a party going on

there.

I know who she was with.

They were known to mess around with younger girls.

And, of course, she was the youngest one there.

Nathan had gone up to the house where she had

called from and asked them if they had seen her.

One of the kids comes out, and I said,

"Theo, I wanna know if you've seen Henny."

And he said,

"No."

He said that she walked off, and I was like,

"Walked off?

Where did she go?"

He said, "She just walked down the road and took off."

I was told that she took off by herself and...

she just left on her own.

Henny wasn't the type of person just to up and leave.

She would have a good reason to.

When I went and filled out the missing person's report,

they weren't taking me seriously.

And when I would see the cops out in the community,

I asked them, you know, "Have you seen Henny?"

And it was all the time the same thing:

"Maybe she found a new boyfriend" or...

"She's still out partying" or...

"She don't wanna come home 'cause she's scared."

After the missing persons report,

we thought that law enforcement would look for her but,

in actuality, they didn't.

There was no search.

No AMBER Alert.

No nothing.

At school, people were saying that she was asking for it or

it was her fault.

If you're drunk and you're outside,

of course something's gonna happen.

They had put up missing person flyers up

everywhere.

And still nothing.

We had to do our own investigation.

And form our own search group.

So we met up.

Ominous music

You could look across.

You could see the house where Henny had called from.

I was on the bottom of the ravine,

looking all over, looking through thickets,

looking through everything, little sage brushes and...

we didn't find nothing at all.

The FBI showed up that morning.

I don't know how they found out about the search because I

didn't contact them, they didn't contact me.

I'm walking and I look like this,

and there's people behind the house.

They told us, "Don't go back there."

And I'm wondering why.

And then that's when they had told us that they'd

found Henny.

And I... I asked them, "Are you sure it's her?"

And they said, "Yeah, it's her."

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They found Henny...

about 100, 150 yards away from that house.

You could see...

the door, that fucking door from where she was laid at.

Just a straight shot, you could see the door.

Henny Scott's remains were discovered about 200 yards from

the residence where she was last known alive.

It is reasonable to assume that Henny died at the location where

she was discovered, and that the cause of death was hypothermia.

There was nothing to explain Henny's death either due to

traumatic cause or preexisting disease.

They determined Henny died from hypothermia,

from exposure.

But being a hunter, how come no animals got to her?

No mountain lions.

No coyotes.

No foxes.

They even have dogs here; how come they didn't get to her?

When Henny was found,

it wasn't her clothes that she was found in.

She was wearing somebody else's clothes;

she was wearing sweatpants, and a t-shirt was found beside her.

Maybe the shirt came off and they just threw it beside her.

And to me, it made me think that she was drugged out there.

We finally got to bring her home,

and we noticed that her nose was...

a weird shape.

It looked broken.

She had bruises, she had scratches,

and it looked like she had a burn on her shin, also.

What happened?

There's something behind the back of her neck right here.

They still don't tell us what that is.

Why?

I think that she did get assaulted.

I don't know where to turn,

I don't know who to ask.

I know something happened to her out there.

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So this is the street I grew up on.

My cousins still live in this area.

All the same people live here.

Um...

David, Sarah...

My uncle Ben lives down in that trailer where we lived.

When I was a kid, Ben lived in this front trailer and we lived

in the back trailer.

And my friend Tasha lived in this house.

Tasha's mom went missing when we were...

babies.

This is the most dangerous place for Native women in the country.

When it comes to the murdered and missing women epidemic,

this is the hottest zone.

Big Horn County...

Crow Reservation...

the Billings area...

the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.

There have been stories that go back generations of women going

missing and then found dead with little to no explanation.

There are so many different possibilities for what happened

to these murdered and missing indigenous women in Big Horn

County.

Is it a hypothermia death?

Is it a beating?

Drug-related?

Trafficking?

We have all the questions in the world...

and we don't have the answers.

When I graduated from high school,

the thing that I wanted to do was leave.

But then, when I went off to college,

the only thing I wanted to do was come back.

I decided that this is definitely where I wanted to be.

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I wanted my kids to be connected to the family,

to the community, because despite all of the bad things

that happen here, despite missing people,

despite high crime rates, despite domestic violence,

despite everything...

this is our home.

We want to have the experience of being Crow...

in Crow country.

But I know how dangerous this place can be for my daughter.

Just being a female makes her a target,

just being a female makes me a target,

makes my mother a target, makes my grandmother a target.

This crisis that we're living in,

it affects every woman on the reservation,

and I don't know how to help other than the work that I do as

a journalist.

I always knew I was gonna cover stories about missing people.

And I knew that the majority of missing person cases in Montana

were gonna be Native people.

As soon as I got this job, one of the first things that I did

was look up my aunt's case.

In 1977, my dad's sister went missing,

and was found four days later in the Big Horn County fairgrounds,

frozen in the snow.

The coverage of that case was...

heartbreaking.

She was...

another dead Indian.

And they didn't offer any kind of common decency

in writing about her as a missing person

and in her as a human.

Ominous ambient music

There are cases stretching back so far that...

it feels like we're born into it.

It feels like, as Native women, this is something that's in our

DNA, this is something that's in our blood.

But that has to change.

And so, one of the reasons that I do what I do

is because I feel like, as a journalist,

keeping the community informed is important,

telling the community's stories is important.

These cases are not true crime stories to us.

These cases are our relatives.

And tonight, we continue our coverage of the

death of Henny Scott.

Northern Cheyenne tribal members mourn the 14-year-old girl whose

body was found a few weeks after she was reported missing near

Busby.

Amazing grace...

The Henny Scott case did mark a turn in how our

local media paid attention to murdered and missing indigenous

cases.

She had her name in the headlines in a way that cases

like this don't get.

They were hitting the heart really because Henny was 14.

She was...

so damn young.

And that made people feel like...

"That could've been my kid."

Family and friends of Henny's went to the

believed site where her body was found.

They mourn and remember the bright young girl they love.

And it was a victory and, at the same time,

a huge tragedy, because it took a 14-year-old girl dying...

A child.

And people had to see that to pay attention,

to think, "Oh my God, what's going on over there?"

The family is praying for justice for Henny

and other missing indigenous women from the reservation.

We're dealing with these at an alarming rate that...

there's gotta be something done...

Justice, you know?

Tender ambient music

A lot of these murdered and missing persons cases shows the

lack of response from law enforcement.

There's a lack of a sense of even responsibility to the

Natives in this community.

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In the case of Henny Scott, because her body was found

within the exterior boundaries of the reservation,

the BIA... Bureau of Indian Affairs... law enforcement

office is in charge of investigating.

They have authority on reservation land.

They dropped the ball in so many ways.

We found out that when we filed the missing persons report in

Crow, her report just sat on a desk because the individual was

out on vacation, and so nobody had been looking for her.

And then, we filled out another missing persons report with the

Lame Deer BIA, but it was like hitting a brick wall.

By the time the BIA police in Lame Deer actually got the alert

out that this girl was missing, this 14-year-old girl was

missing, it was two full weeks.

And then, the FBI got involved.

I don't know if the FBI investigated it.

They said they did.

To this day, I've never seen nothing.

We got no communication from them... at all.

From the beginning of the investigation to the end.

Why didn't the BIA investigate it properly?

Why didn't the FBI investigate it properly?

You know, what really happened that night?

And why did it happen?

We tried to let the justice system work for us.

But I honestly believe that, being Native,

that the system failed us.

Not only us, but a lot of families around here.

Well, there's a concern and call for action following the

death of a 14-year-old Lame Deer girl.

On Tuesday, US Senator Jon Tester released a letter to FBI

Director Christopher Wray and Acting BIA Director Darryl

LaCounte.

In it, Tester says the response to Henny Scott's disappearance

was inadequate, and she isn't the first.

Tester says these delayed, ineffective responses on Indian

reservations are a trend, and there needs to be a much higher

standard to protect citizens in Indian country.

uplifting tender music

Big Horn County sits right on the south end of the

Montana/Wyoming border, and it goes all the way to just outside

of Billings.

It encompasses part of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation

and most of the Crow Reservation.

There's a difference between saying "Crow country" and

"the Crow Reservation."

The Crow Reservation has 2.2 million acres

that's all within Montana.

But "Crow country" is from the three forks of the Missouri,

to the Milk River, to the Black Hills,

to the Horse Creek in Wyoming.

That's the way Crow people will see it.

In the late 1860s, Crows became reservation people.

It changed our identity and the way we view the world.

Ominous ambient music

They call it "living within the lines"... these arbitrary lines

that are placed on the boundaries of the reservation by

the US government.

Annuities were passed out to tribal people as part of an

agreement for moving to the reservation.

Army bases were built outside of Indian

reservations.

Those army bases weren't put there to keep tribal people

safe.

Because of colonization and the Western land grab,

tribal people were essentially prisoners on those reservations.

So now, you get a group of people who were free...

Hunt where they wanna hunt, go where they wanna go...

And now are stuck and confined to the reservation.

It's an ugly period of high levels of dysfunction...

the mistreatment of each other.

And the Federal government is a lot of the reason why we are the

way we are...

It's the conflict between our belief system

and their belief system.

When the Federal government implemented the

reservation system, it was designed for us to fail

and not thrive, so that we would move away,

forget who we are, and assimilate.

Then, you throw alcohol into it.

So you have this whole time from the early 1900s where alcohol's

placed into this... an already-stripped people.

These warriors are now emasculated.

For one, they hold no position anymore;

the government does.

So the government now appoints who's gonna be the headmen of

the tribe.

So you have a defeated people that now are having kids,

and those kids are raised by defeated people.

When you take an entire society and you strip them of any

self-worth and confidence they have...

it becomes very fragile.

That early reservation period is...

it's a dangerous time, 'cause it laid the blueprint for

everything that puts us where we are today.

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On May the 5th, 2022, in Hardin, Montana,

at the courthouse, there's a gathering for MMIW,

missing/murdered indigenous women,

and they're not being investigated and there's still a

lot of missing indigenous women on our reservations.

A lot of perpetrators do come to our Native communities

because they do know that there are these gaps in jurisdiction

and the likelihood of being held accountable is minimal.

When you throw a crime into this area,

it's a nightmare because Big Horn County has all of these

jurisdictions.

The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office has authority

on county land off the reservation.

For a crime that's committed on tribal lands,

Federal law enforcement, the FBI,

and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have jurisdiction.

BIA law officers would be the ones who would show up

immediately at a crime scene, and then FBI would be called in

to do the investigation.

But the BIA cannot exercise criminal jurisdiction over

non-Indians when they commit crimes on tribal lands.

And so, when we live on our tribal lands in our homes,

our own government can't protect us from basically any crime

committed by a non-Indian.

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And so, to figure out who has jurisdiction at any

given time, you have to know who is the victim... are they Indian

or not? who is the perpetrator... are they Indian

or not? where did the crime occur... on Indian land or not?

When it comes to violence against Native women,

when it comes to missing and murdered situations,

often times, we don't know where she went missing,

we don't know who the perpetrator is.

And so, I think often times, law enforcement are gonna say,

"Well, we don't have jurisdiction,"

or "We don't know if we have jurisdiction,

so take it over there."

So it just falls through the cracks,

and we end up really being almost a lawless community.

The FBI has clear jurisdiction on tribal lands,

but the FBI gets involved in cases of national importance.

They get involved when they're told to.

Often times, what they will say is that they want the local

jurisdiction to invite them in, and they're waiting for that to

happen.

The jurisdictional issues, I think,

are one of the main reasons why Big Horn County has one of the

highest rates of murdered and missing indigenous women and

girls in the United States today.

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In late August of 2019,

a body was found off the reservation in the city limits

of Hardin, which is under the jurisdiction of the Big Horn

County Sheriff's Office.

The body was in a backyard

along Mitchell Avenue.

Mitchell Avenue is a very busy street.

It is one of the main thoroughfares in town.

As a man was jogging down the road,

he passes a pile of debris in someone's yard.

He said he had seen crows.

He did a double-take and went back and realized...

there was a body.

It was 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places.

Tender music

Kaysera was a fun-spirited young lady.

She was a loving person.

I mean, she was...

her siblings' protectors.

She was also that little mama.

And she was the one they looked up to to be

their stability.

The situation that they were being raised in was...

not a healthy, you know, stable life.

Her parents drank a lot.

At times, they did meth.

But their substance of choice is alcohol.

She really hated that, and so she was...

getting really angry about it and upset when she started

maturing.

And then she became more forceful.

She was the sister you didn't wanna piss off

either.

She was like Kaysera; she would...

just fight you and get it done and over with.

But she was always there for her friends.

The Crow tribe has their annual Crow Fair.

It's always that third week of August,

and Kaysera's birthday is always right in there.

Crow Fair is a pow wow, and it's on the Crow Reservation.

There's parades, there's rodeo.

We camp for those few days.

A lot of my family come to visit,

and so it's time for us to, like,

catch up, dance at the pow wow.

And so Kaysera asked permission to stay a few

more days with her aunt Percelia in Hardin.

Happy birthday, dear Kaysera...

The night that Kaysera disappeared was August

24th.

She'd just turned 18,

and she went out to celebrate her birthday.

Kaysera had her friends Isabella and Nakia with her.

And they all got all dressed up and...

I think Kaysera changed like three times that night,

so she was really excited for that.

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Kaysera never made it home.

When the girls woke up, I asked where Kaysera was.

And they both looked at each other like,

"We thought she already...

came home."

And I was like, "Well, she's not home."

I started reaching out, sending Kaysera messages,

trying to call her and some of her friends and her

sister-cousins, asking them to look.

Everyone started getting more alarmed by Tuesday.

When a young Native woman goes missing in Big Horn

County, your mind immediately starts racing.

They might be trafficked, they might be getting beaten to

death, they might be being used as a drug mule.

And the scariest part is the not knowing what's happening.

I was just like,

"We need to go to the police station."

So we went.

And I felt like the officer, Jeramie Middlestead,

didn't really take take me as serious.

Like, I wasn't given a form to fill out,

he just jotted down the information on his little tablet

that he carries in his pocket.

There was no posters up, there was nothing put out there that

she was missing.

They weren't professional about the whole situation.

And then, five days after Kaysera went missing,

I got a message through one of my co-workers who lived on Range

View that they found a young female...

behind the house on Mitchell and Range View.

But if it wasn't for my co-worker messaging me,

I don't think any of us would have known.

The Sheriff's Office didn't notify us to say,

"Hey, we did find a body.

It may be her, it may not be her;

we don't know."

They didn't say anything.

She was taken to the State Crime Lab in Billings,

Montana.

And she was not identified until September 11th.

They had to go into dental records to identify her

officially.

Then, after that was when she was finally returned to Hardin.

From August 29th all the way to September 11th?

That is a long time.

We waited and waited for the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office to

really even announce that a case was opened,

that it was pending, that...

new details are emerging, that anything was happening.

As far as we knew, after Kaysera's body was identified...

nothing else happened with her case.

We were going every day to try to meet with

the Sheriff's Department.

We made every effort.

Every day, we travelled 110 miles

back and forth trying to meet with any official we could.

And all the doors were closed to us.

I got involved with Kaysera's case a couple weeks after she

was murdered, and I just got a call,

and it was from one of Kaysera's family members and they just

said, "Can you help us?"

Speaking as a lawyer and looking at the legal framework,

it's very clear that what happened in August was a

complete disregard for not only the rights of Kaysera but the

rights of all Native women when local law enforcement failed to

investigate her death and to take all steps necessary to look

for her before finding her on August 29th.

The family needed help with a Sheriff's Office that wouldn't

even meet with them or talk to them,

and an FBI agency who would not talk to them.

They just needed help getting someone to talk to them.

Where she was found was within State jurisdiction,

but the local law enforcement, Big Horn County,

for a long time... ever since this was first reported to them

at the end of August... has failed to just take very basic

steps to conduct an investigation looking into the

causes surrounding her death.

There are so many things about her case that are inexplicable.

They also had her cell phone.

It is very easy, as an investigative agency,

to figure out who someone is based on the phone on the dead

body when you find them.

For two weeks, the family sat there and waited for

results to see if it was her body or not.

Why didn't they let the family know?

Are they trying to cover something up?

Did they just have a complete disregard for the family?

What's the reason for the lack of transparency there?

The family has several different theories about what happened.

One of their theories is that weeks before,

during the annual Crow Fair pow wow celebration,

Kaysera posted on her social media pages a fight that

happened where police were called in and they started

beating on one of the young boys who instigated the fight.

The reason Kaysera did that was the boy that was beaten by the

police was her brother.

According to the police report, Kaysera's brother Esaias was

acting aggressively and was resisting arrest.

One of the officers that was accused of beating him was a

deputy with the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office.

The family alleges that one of the reasons that the Big Horn

County Sheriff's Office treated Kaysera's case the way that they

did was because they were embroiled in that altercation

with her brother.

There is a lot of very suspicious things about

Kaysera's case and the way it was handled.

The thing to know about Hardin is that it is a border town.

The reservation arcs around a little bit and envelops the

town.

In fact, where Kaysera's body was found is right next to the

border of the Crow Reservation.

Hardin has a high population of Native people from the Crow and

Northern Cheyenne Reservations.

Also, a majority white population,

so it makes for some difficult dynamics.

There's a lot of non-Natives who have a lot of

prejudice against Native people.

And there's a significant devaluation of Native lives in

these communities.

And so, what ends up happening is

you have a border town where violence against Native people

is just an accepted incorporated part of the culture,

and no one in law enforcement bats an eye at it.

The relationship between law enforcement and the

Native community in Big Horn County is pretty tense.

There's been complaints about our Sheriff's Office for years.

There's an attitude.

It's evident, it's... it's...

tangible.

When a tribal member goes missing off the reservation,

County has to use their resources to either solve cases

or fight crime...

for "non-residents."

And it really comes into play when we start looking at cases

here in town.

The Sheriff's Office refused to meet with Kaysera's family for

several weeks, and finally met and said,

"Well, we just think she walked over to this suburban yard and

just died and laid there for five days until we found her

body on August 29th,"

which is crazy.

If you go to that intersection, there's a car driving by every

30 seconds.

The odds of her body laying there for five days is pretty

much zero.

There's no way that...

no one would have seen her body.

It's very clear that this is a homicide and there's foul play

involved.

When the body of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places was first

discovered, the remains were decomposed,

meaning that there was significant...

change after death.

We looked at everything pretty exhaustively.

We don't have a cause of death that we can state confidently,

and that's because of the decomposition change.

So there are certainly possibilities that exist as a

cause that I'm not at liberty to discuss,

however some of those...

would fall under the realm, in terms of the manner,

as being classified as homicide.

After her body was identified,

they brought the remains back to Big Horn County to the coroner,

Terry Bullis, who happens to be the only mortician in town.

Terry Bullis is a non-Native white man business owner who

owns a funeral home in Big Horn County,

and he also, for a significant period of time,

was the county coroner for Big Horn County.

He cremated Kaysera's body.

The family claims that he cremated her body against the

family's wishes.

And as their attorney, I filed a complaint against him to have

his mortuary license removed.

And the Montana commissioner decided not to do it.

The Montana Funeral Service Board found that in the

Kaysera case, Terry Bullis didn't do anything unlawful,

but he didn't ask for authorization in the best way

possible.

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But if Terry Bullis cremates your loved one,

that's a pretty big slap in the face,

because Crow people don't believe in cremating the body.

If you're cremated, you're not gonna move into the next life.

I mean, imagine if you don't believe in cremation as a form

of burial and you're forced to do that for your loved one.

That is horrifically traumatic.

I think the reason there has not been justice in this case is

that Kaysera is a Native girl.

Little information surrounds the

passing of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places.

She was reported missing by her family August 27th and her body

was found two days later, August 29th.

According to coordinators of the march,

she is the 27th missing or murdered indigenous woman or

girl in Big Horn County.

Say her name!

Kaysera!

Say her name!

Kaysera!

I went to the justice march.

Everyone dressed in red.

They marched from the site where her body was found,

down Mitchell Avenue, and they stopped in front of the Big Horn

County courthouse.

They were rallying people, they were...

crying out for this justice.

I still can't believe that this happened.

We love our daughter so much.

They're our family members...

and we need to find out what happened to them.

We all still had Henny Scott in the back of our

minds.

We all still had our sisters, our mothers,

our aunts, our grandmothers in the back of our minds.

Somebody knows something!

People wanted to know what happened to this girl.

What is the County gonna do to protect young women?

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With regard to the death of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places...

this one is one of those cases

where it deserves a complete, thorough investigation,

because the findings in this case don't exclude homicide.

I don't have a cause of death for Kaysera.

What the hell is going on in this community that

allows it to be so easy to disappear...

over and over and over?

Girls missing for two weeks, girls missing for five days,

girls missing for seven days.

Girl gets found.

Unexplained injuries, unexplained disappearance.

No questions are answered.

"Hypothermia."

"Undetermined."

Every single time.

Really, what the fuck?

What the fuck is going on?

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Living on the reservation is like a perfect storm, right?

That state that Natives were put in

when they were put on reservations,

that emotional state...

it is alive and well on reservations today,

because of the poverty, because of the joblessness,

because of the drug addictions, the alcohol abuse.

And on top of all of that dysfunction,

put in a major highway

with truckers going God-knows-where,

with traffic from across this country going God-knows-where,

put in close proximity to Canada,

where we have opioids and meth coming in...

Washington and Oregon, where we have drug cartels coming in.

And drug cartels, they're not just trafficking drugs,

they're trafficking people.

All of that is concentrated in this area.

Sex trafficking is, um, something that we have to look

at with regard to missing and murdered Indian women.

Native American woman and girls are

just over three percent of the population here in Montana.

They make up 30 to 40 percent of trafficking victims.

And that's where we come into non-Native people

coming in and seeing an opportunity to be predatory.

The idea that white men in particular are the villain,

I think, is... is pretty pervasive in our community.

Pioneers or people moving westward were not the most moral

or ethical people, and Native people were the target of a lot

of that.

There is this idea that there's this white boogeyman,

that there's someone from the outside that's coming in to harm

us, that people from outside our community can come in and take

what they want; they can take the resources,

they can take our women, and nothing will happen.

And it's this feeling of Native women's lives are disposable.

As a Crow woman, that nurturing and protecting is engrained in

who I am, and it's exacerbated when we add in a murdered and

missing persons crisis in Big Horn County.

Not enough people are worrying, and not enough people are taking

action.

In covering Kaysera, it was hard.

The Sheriff's Office has been quiet about this case...

Abnormally quiet.

There are so many questions surrounding the cause of her

death.

I wanna know who else was there the night that she died and what

they know.

I wanna know if they were questioned by Big Horn County.

And I wanna know why she was in that yard.

I find it odd that she just laid down and died.

It makes no sense to me.

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My job is to inform the community of what's going on,

and to try my best to...

maybe not bring justice, but to at least give them answers.

That's my goal.

I'm still trying to get information.

And then, all of a sudden, we're into the new year.

First day of the new year, we... we have a missing girl.

And...

it was a... a girl I knew.

Very well.

It was Selena Not Afraid, 16 years old.

She was last seen on eastbound Interstate 90.

A missing endangered person advisory has

been issued for a 16-year-old girl in Big Horn County.

It blew my mind that she was gone that fast.

Disappeared.

Into thin air.

There is the frenzy to find her.

I've never seen a reaction like that to a missing person.

They had everything out there.

You name it, they had it.

If anybody has a chance of surviving...

it's Selena Not Afraid.

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