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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:25,186 --> 00:00:28,236 When I was growing up on the Crow Reservation, 2 00:00:28,436 --> 00:00:30,236 we never locked the doors. 3 00:00:30,436 --> 00:00:32,076 Nobody locked their doors. 4 00:00:37,776 --> 00:00:41,416 But the darkness that has happened in the last decade... 5 00:00:41,616 --> 00:00:43,086 is this... 6 00:00:43,286 --> 00:00:45,086 energy that's... 7 00:00:45,286 --> 00:00:48,876 like a black cloud, a vapor. 8 00:00:50,376 --> 00:00:55,386 That energy consumes you as an individual. 9 00:00:55,596 --> 00:00:58,436 Then, it consumes your family... 10 00:00:58,636 --> 00:01:00,766 until it consumes your whole tribe. 11 00:01:00,966 --> 00:01:03,806 The last time I saw her was two days before she went missing. 12 00:01:04,516 --> 00:01:04,876 She never made it home. 13 00:01:05,076 --> 00:01:06,876 Not knowing where she's at, 14 00:01:07,016 --> 00:01:09,106 if she's alive, if she's gone. 15 00:01:09,306 --> 00:01:11,276 Buried, not found, lost, 16 00:01:11,476 --> 00:01:13,446 murdered, still missing. 17 00:01:17,076 --> 00:01:19,616 We're the silent population that disappears. 18 00:01:22,486 --> 00:01:24,302 We were supposed to be eliminated. 19 00:01:24,326 --> 00:01:27,626 We weren't supposed to be a problem to the American life. 20 00:01:27,826 --> 00:01:31,636 We're supposed to stay in the back and be a good Indian. 21 00:01:31,836 --> 00:01:33,806 That's what you do here in Montana. 22 00:01:36,336 --> 00:01:39,476 Multiple families are grieving over teenage girls. 23 00:01:39,676 --> 00:01:41,796 What the hell is going on in this community? 24 00:01:41,846 --> 00:01:43,152 Someone knows what happened. 25 00:01:43,176 --> 00:01:46,316 That someone is still walking around here. 26 00:02:34,646 --> 00:02:38,196 When I started walking, I smelled... 27 00:02:38,396 --> 00:02:40,196 like the smell of death. 28 00:02:45,406 --> 00:02:49,166 I know the smell of death and it... 29 00:02:51,166 --> 00:02:53,546 it's not a good smell. 30 00:03:00,506 --> 00:03:03,556 I hear this little, small voice say, 31 00:03:03,756 --> 00:03:04,896 "Dad. 32 00:03:05,096 --> 00:03:07,516 Come find me, Dad." 33 00:03:17,526 --> 00:03:19,252 A devastating ending to the search 34 00:03:19,276 --> 00:03:21,576 for a 14-year-old Montana girl. 35 00:03:21,776 --> 00:03:24,576 Her body was found Friday on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation 36 00:03:24,776 --> 00:03:26,246 near Lame Deer. 37 00:03:26,446 --> 00:03:30,376 Today, we confirmed that the body was Henny Scott. 38 00:03:32,326 --> 00:03:34,426 Henny was the middle child. 39 00:03:34,626 --> 00:03:37,716 She really adored her younger siblings. 40 00:03:38,126 --> 00:03:41,546 And she had all kinds of friends. 41 00:03:43,216 --> 00:03:45,436 Henny was tomboyish. 42 00:03:45,636 --> 00:03:49,606 She liked to play football, and she played a lot of basketball. 43 00:03:49,806 --> 00:03:52,776 She was pretty good in basketball. 44 00:03:58,526 --> 00:04:02,286 The day Henny went missing, she asked if she could go to open 45 00:04:02,486 --> 00:04:04,786 gym down here at the school. 46 00:04:04,986 --> 00:04:07,576 She was a freshman at the time. 47 00:04:08,206 --> 00:04:12,626 Later on that afternoon, she called from a residence. 48 00:04:12,826 --> 00:04:15,826 The name had come up on the caller ID so I knew where she was calling from. 49 00:04:17,496 --> 00:04:20,296 It's kind of like a party place where all the teenagers go to 50 00:04:20,506 --> 00:04:22,466 party and hang out. 51 00:04:22,666 --> 00:04:25,596 There's no adult supervision. 52 00:04:25,886 --> 00:04:28,806 So I told her, "You need to come back home." 53 00:04:29,006 --> 00:04:32,146 And that's the last time I heard from Henny. 54 00:04:32,346 --> 00:04:34,316 Say hi, Snapchat. 55 00:04:43,356 --> 00:04:46,826 The night Henny went missing, I heard there was a party going on 56 00:04:47,026 --> 00:04:48,326 there. 57 00:04:48,526 --> 00:04:50,996 I know who she was with. 58 00:04:51,196 --> 00:04:55,506 They were known to mess around with younger girls. 59 00:04:55,706 --> 00:04:59,006 And, she was the youngest one there. 60 00:05:01,206 --> 00:05:03,182 Nathan had gone up to the house where she had 61 00:05:03,206 --> 00:05:06,676 called from and asked them if they had seen her. 62 00:05:06,876 --> 00:05:09,016 One of the kids comes out, and I said, 63 00:05:09,216 --> 00:05:12,516 "Theo, I wanna know if you've seen Henny." 64 00:05:12,716 --> 00:05:13,856 And he said, 65 00:05:14,056 --> 00:05:15,356 "No." 66 00:05:15,556 --> 00:05:17,372 He said that she walked off, and I was like, 67 00:05:17,396 --> 00:05:18,856 "Walked off? 68 00:05:19,056 --> 00:05:19,586 Where did she go?" 69 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:23,196 He said, "She walked down the road and took off." 70 00:05:23,396 --> 00:05:27,706 I was told that she took off by herself and... 71 00:05:27,906 --> 00:05:30,036 she left on her own. 72 00:05:30,236 --> 00:05:33,706 Henny wasn't the type of person to up and leave. 73 00:05:33,906 --> 00:05:37,046 She would have a good reason to. 74 00:05:38,786 --> 00:05:41,392 When I went and filled out the missing person's report, 75 00:05:41,416 --> 00:05:43,386 they weren't taking me seriously. 76 00:05:43,586 --> 00:05:46,146 And when I would see the cops out in the community, 77 00:05:46,256 --> 00:05:49,386 I asked them, you know, "Have you seen Henny?" 78 00:05:49,586 --> 00:05:52,396 And it was all the time the same thing: 79 00:05:52,596 --> 00:05:54,516 "Maybe she found a new boyfriend" or... 80 00:05:54,596 --> 00:05:57,236 "She's still out partying" or... 81 00:05:57,436 --> 00:06:00,736 "She don't wanna come home 'cause she's scared." 82 00:06:00,936 --> 00:06:03,236 After the missing persons report, 83 00:06:03,436 --> 00:06:06,076 we thought that law enforcement would look for her but, 84 00:06:06,276 --> 00:06:08,246 in actuality, they didn't. 85 00:06:08,446 --> 00:06:11,246 There was no search. 86 00:06:11,446 --> 00:06:12,916 No AMBER Alert. 87 00:06:13,116 --> 00:06:15,086 No nothing. 88 00:06:15,286 --> 00:06:19,756 At school, people were saying that she was asking for it or 89 00:06:19,956 --> 00:06:21,256 it was her fault. 90 00:06:21,456 --> 00:06:23,426 If you're drunk and you're outside, 91 00:06:23,626 --> 00:06:27,386 something's gonna happen. 92 00:06:28,096 --> 00:06:31,596 They had put up missing person flyers up 93 00:06:31,796 --> 00:06:33,226 everywhere. 94 00:06:33,426 --> 00:06:35,556 And still nothing. 95 00:06:36,726 --> 00:06:39,436 We had to do our own investigation. 96 00:06:39,636 --> 00:06:42,726 And form our own search group. 97 00:06:44,236 --> 00:06:46,276 So we met up. 98 00:06:48,146 --> 00:06:50,906 You could look across. 99 00:06:51,116 --> 00:06:55,246 You could see the house where Henny had called from. 100 00:06:55,746 --> 00:06:58,126 I was on the bottom of the ravine, 101 00:06:58,326 --> 00:07:00,132 looking all over, looking through thickets, 102 00:07:00,156 --> 00:07:03,466 looking through everything, little sage brushes and... 103 00:07:03,666 --> 00:07:06,086 we didn't find nothing at all. 104 00:07:06,506 --> 00:07:09,136 The FBI showed up that morning. 105 00:07:09,336 --> 00:07:12,152 I don't know how they found out about the search because I 106 00:07:12,176 --> 00:07:15,806 didn't contact them, they didn't contact me. 107 00:07:16,006 --> 00:07:17,816 I'm walking and I look like this, 108 00:07:18,016 --> 00:07:20,316 and there's people behind the house. 109 00:07:20,516 --> 00:07:22,316 They told us, "Don't go back there." 110 00:07:22,516 --> 00:07:24,936 And I'm wondering why. 111 00:07:25,146 --> 00:07:28,156 And then that's when they had told us that they'd found Henny. 112 00:07:30,406 --> 00:07:34,826 I asked them, "Are you sure it's her?" 113 00:07:35,026 --> 00:07:37,616 And they said, "Yeah, it's her." 114 00:07:55,636 --> 00:07:58,516 They found Henny... 115 00:07:58,716 --> 00:08:03,146 about 100, 150 yards away from that house. 116 00:08:05,316 --> 00:08:07,486 You could see... 117 00:08:09,486 --> 00:08:14,486 the door, that fucking door from where she was laid at. 118 00:08:15,826 --> 00:08:19,536 A straight shot, you could see the door. 119 00:08:27,836 --> 00:08:31,886 Henny Scott's remains were discovered about 200 yards from 120 00:08:32,086 --> 00:08:35,056 the residence where she was last known alive. 121 00:08:35,256 --> 00:08:39,896 It is reasonable to assume that Henny died at the location where 122 00:08:40,096 --> 00:08:44,966 she was discovered, and that the cause of death was hypothermia. 123 00:08:45,156 --> 00:08:50,196 There was nothing to explain Henny's death either due to 124 00:08:50,396 --> 00:08:55,246 traumatic cause or preexisting disease. 125 00:09:00,446 --> 00:09:04,086 They determined Henny died from hypothermia, 126 00:09:04,286 --> 00:09:06,316 from exposure. 127 00:09:06,516 --> 00:09:11,546 But being a hunter, how come no animals got to her? 128 00:09:11,756 --> 00:09:14,096 No mountain lions. 129 00:09:14,296 --> 00:09:16,426 No coyotes. 130 00:09:16,626 --> 00:09:18,096 No foxes. 131 00:09:18,296 --> 00:09:22,266 They even have dogs here; how come they didn't get to her? 132 00:09:24,636 --> 00:09:26,276 When Henny was found, 133 00:09:26,476 --> 00:09:29,566 it wasn't her clothes that she was found in. 134 00:09:29,856 --> 00:09:31,816 She was wearing somebody else's clothes; 135 00:09:31,856 --> 00:09:36,736 she was wearing sweatpants, and a t-shirt was found beside her. 136 00:09:37,366 --> 00:09:42,686 Maybe the shirt came off and they threw it beside her. 137 00:09:42,886 --> 00:09:47,126 And to me, it made me think that she was drugged out there. 138 00:09:49,826 --> 00:09:51,796 We finally got to bring her home, 139 00:09:51,996 --> 00:09:56,086 and we noticed that her nose was... 140 00:09:56,296 --> 00:09:58,136 a weird shape. 141 00:09:58,336 --> 00:09:59,636 It looked broken. 142 00:09:59,836 --> 00:10:02,306 She had bruises, she had scratches, 143 00:10:02,506 --> 00:10:06,816 and it looked like she had a burn on her shin, also. 144 00:10:07,016 --> 00:10:08,816 What happened? 145 00:10:09,016 --> 00:10:12,156 There's something behind the back of her neck right here. 146 00:10:12,356 --> 00:10:15,386 They still don't tell us what that is. 147 00:10:15,586 --> 00:10:17,996 Why? 148 00:10:19,856 --> 00:10:22,996 I think that she did get assaulted. 149 00:10:23,196 --> 00:10:24,512 I don't know where to turn, 150 00:10:24,536 --> 00:10:26,786 I don't know who to ask. 151 00:10:27,076 --> 00:10:30,166 I know something happened to her out there. 152 00:11:38,696 --> 00:11:41,406 So this is the street I grew up on. 153 00:11:41,606 --> 00:11:44,416 My cousins still live in this area. 154 00:11:44,616 --> 00:11:46,746 All the same people live here. 155 00:11:48,286 --> 00:11:50,246 David, Sarah... 156 00:11:50,446 --> 00:11:54,146 My uncle Ben lives down in that trailer where we lived. 157 00:11:54,346 --> 00:11:57,102 When I was a kid, Ben lived in this front trailer and we lived 158 00:11:57,126 --> 00:11:59,216 in the back trailer. 159 00:12:00,716 --> 00:12:03,596 And my friend Tasha lived in this house. 160 00:12:03,796 --> 00:12:07,436 Tasha's mom went missing when we were... 161 00:12:07,636 --> 00:12:09,266 babies. 162 00:12:12,636 --> 00:12:15,946 This is the most dangerous place for Native women in the country. 163 00:12:16,146 --> 00:12:19,106 When it comes to the murdered and missing women epidemic, 164 00:12:19,146 --> 00:12:21,946 this is the hottest zone. 165 00:12:25,816 --> 00:12:27,626 Big Horn County... 166 00:12:27,826 --> 00:12:29,786 Crow Reservation... 167 00:12:29,986 --> 00:12:31,626 the Billings area... 168 00:12:31,826 --> 00:12:34,086 the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. 169 00:12:36,086 --> 00:12:41,086 There have been stories that go back generations of women going 170 00:12:41,586 --> 00:12:46,926 missing and then found dead with little to no explanation. 171 00:12:48,926 --> 00:12:52,476 There are so many different possibilities for what happened 172 00:12:52,676 --> 00:12:55,492 to these murdered and missing indigenous women in Big Horn County. 173 00:12:56,846 --> 00:12:58,326 Is it a hypothermia death? 174 00:12:58,516 --> 00:13:00,156 Is it a beating? 175 00:13:00,356 --> 00:13:01,656 Drug-related? 176 00:13:01,856 --> 00:13:03,656 Trafficking? 177 00:13:03,856 --> 00:13:06,826 We have all the questions in the world... 178 00:13:07,026 --> 00:13:09,826 and we don't have the answers. 179 00:13:14,866 --> 00:13:17,506 When I graduated from high school, 180 00:13:17,706 --> 00:13:20,966 the thing that I wanted to do was leave. 181 00:13:21,466 --> 00:13:24,006 But then, when I went off to college, 182 00:13:24,206 --> 00:13:26,966 the only thing I wanted to do was come back. 183 00:13:27,466 --> 00:13:32,356 I decided that this is definitely where I wanted to be. 184 00:13:34,216 --> 00:13:36,686 I wanted my kids to be connected to the family, 185 00:13:36,886 --> 00:13:41,756 to the community, because despite all of the bad things 186 00:13:41,956 --> 00:13:44,536 that happen here, despite missing people, 187 00:13:44,736 --> 00:13:47,536 despite high crime rates, despite domestic violence, 188 00:13:47,736 --> 00:13:50,496 despite everything... 189 00:13:50,786 --> 00:13:53,326 this is our home. 190 00:13:53,746 --> 00:13:58,376 We want to have the experience of being Crow... 191 00:13:58,576 --> 00:14:00,666 in Crow country. 192 00:14:02,506 --> 00:14:07,056 But I know how dangerous this place can be for my daughter. 193 00:14:07,256 --> 00:14:08,902 Being a female makes her a target, 194 00:14:08,926 --> 00:14:10,562 being a female makes me a target, 195 00:14:10,586 --> 00:14:13,726 makes my mother a target, makes my grandmother a target. 196 00:14:13,926 --> 00:14:16,226 This crisis that we're living in, 197 00:14:16,426 --> 00:14:19,566 it affects every woman on the reservation, 198 00:14:19,766 --> 00:14:24,696 and I don't know how to help other than the work that I do as a journalist. 199 00:14:33,536 --> 00:14:38,536 I always knew I was gonna cover stories about missing people. 200 00:14:41,206 --> 00:14:45,096 And I knew that the majority of missing person cases in Montana 201 00:14:45,296 --> 00:14:47,886 were gonna be Native people. 202 00:14:48,176 --> 00:14:53,266 As soon as I got this job, one of the first things that I did 203 00:14:53,466 --> 00:14:56,226 was look up my aunt's case. 204 00:14:56,436 --> 00:15:01,276 In 1977, my dad's sister went missing, 205 00:15:01,476 --> 00:15:06,396 and was found four days later in the Big Horn County fairgrounds, 206 00:15:06,696 --> 00:15:09,406 frozen in the snow. 207 00:15:11,906 --> 00:15:16,286 The coverage of that case was... 208 00:15:16,486 --> 00:15:17,796 heartbreaking. 209 00:15:19,496 --> 00:15:20,956 She was... 210 00:15:21,166 --> 00:15:24,086 another dead Indian. 211 00:15:24,586 --> 00:15:29,926 And they didn't offer any kind of common decency 212 00:15:30,426 --> 00:15:34,806 in writing about her as a missing person 213 00:15:35,006 --> 00:15:37,476 and in her as a human. 214 00:15:47,276 --> 00:15:52,276 There are cases stretching back so far that... 215 00:15:52,776 --> 00:15:56,996 it feels like we're born into it. 216 00:15:57,196 --> 00:16:01,166 It feels like, as Native women, this is something that's in our 217 00:16:01,366 --> 00:16:04,506 DNA, this is something that's in our blood. 218 00:16:04,706 --> 00:16:08,296 But that has to change. 219 00:16:08,506 --> 00:16:13,636 And so, one of the reasons that I do what I do 220 00:16:14,846 --> 00:16:18,186 is because I feel like, as a journalist, 221 00:16:18,386 --> 00:16:22,186 keeping the community informed is important, 222 00:16:22,386 --> 00:16:26,356 telling the community's stories is important. 223 00:16:26,556 --> 00:16:31,486 These cases are not true crime stories to us. 224 00:16:33,156 --> 00:16:36,866 These cases are our relatives. 225 00:16:45,836 --> 00:16:47,892 And tonight, we continue our coverage of the 226 00:16:47,916 --> 00:16:48,506 death of Henny Scott. 227 00:16:48,706 --> 00:16:51,886 Northern Cheyenne tribal members mourn the 14-year-old girl whose 228 00:16:52,086 --> 00:16:54,886 body was found a few weeks after she was reported missing near Busby. 229 00:16:55,926 --> 00:16:59,396 Amazing grace... 230 00:16:59,596 --> 00:17:03,566 The Henny Scott case did mark a turn in how our 231 00:17:03,766 --> 00:17:07,906 local media paid attention to murdered and missing indigenous 232 00:17:08,106 --> 00:17:09,686 cases. 233 00:17:11,696 --> 00:17:16,696 She had her name in the headlines in a way that cases 234 00:17:16,986 --> 00:17:19,536 like this don't get. 235 00:17:19,826 --> 00:17:23,746 They were hitting the heart really because Henny was 14. 236 00:17:23,946 --> 00:17:25,416 She was... 237 00:17:25,616 --> 00:17:27,926 so damn young. 238 00:17:28,126 --> 00:17:32,986 And that made people feel like... 239 00:17:33,186 --> 00:17:35,766 "That could've been my kid." 240 00:17:35,966 --> 00:17:37,272 Family and friends of Henny's went to the 241 00:17:37,296 --> 00:17:39,266 believed site where her body was found. 242 00:17:39,466 --> 00:17:42,936 They mourn and remember the bright young girl they love. 243 00:17:43,136 --> 00:17:46,436 And it was a victory and, at the same time, 244 00:17:46,636 --> 00:17:51,566 a huge tragedy, because it took a 14-year-old girl dying... 245 00:17:52,066 --> 00:17:54,006 A child. 246 00:17:54,206 --> 00:17:58,786 And people had to see that to pay attention, 247 00:17:58,986 --> 00:18:01,132 to think, "my God, what's going on over there?" 248 00:18:01,156 --> 00:18:03,302 The family is praying for ice for Henny 249 00:18:03,326 --> 00:18:06,286 and other missing indigenous women from the reservation. 250 00:18:06,326 --> 00:18:09,796 We're dealing with these at an alarming rate that... 251 00:18:09,996 --> 00:18:11,472 there's gotta be something done... 252 00:18:11,496 --> 00:18:13,136 ice, you know? 253 00:18:13,336 --> 00:18:18,256 Tender 254 00:18:18,966 --> 00:18:23,976 A lot of these murdered and missing persons cases shows the 255 00:18:24,176 --> 00:18:28,146 lack of response from law enforcement. 256 00:18:28,346 --> 00:18:33,216 There's a lack of a sense of even responsibility 257 00:18:33,416 --> 00:18:35,156 to the Natives in this community. 258 00:18:38,026 --> 00:18:42,496 In the case of Henny Scott, because her body was found 259 00:18:42,696 --> 00:18:45,836 within the exterior boundaries of the reservation, 260 00:18:46,036 --> 00:18:49,336 the BIA... Bureau of Indian Affairs... law enforcement 261 00:18:49,536 --> 00:18:52,836 office is in charge of investigating. 262 00:18:53,036 --> 00:18:56,716 They have authority on reservation land. 263 00:18:56,916 --> 00:19:01,466 They dropped the ball in so many ways. 264 00:19:02,096 --> 00:19:06,016 We found out that when we filed the missing persons report in 265 00:19:06,216 --> 00:19:10,186 Crow, her report sat on a desk because the individual was 266 00:19:10,386 --> 00:19:14,816 out on vacation, and so nobody had been looking for her. 267 00:19:15,316 --> 00:19:19,366 And then, we filled out another missing persons report with the 268 00:19:19,566 --> 00:19:24,496 Lame Deer BIA, but it was like hitting a brick wall. 269 00:19:26,156 --> 00:19:30,206 By the time the BIA police in Lame Deer actually got the alert 270 00:19:30,406 --> 00:19:35,046 out that this girl was missing, this 14-year-old girl was missing, 271 00:19:35,246 --> 00:19:38,336 it was two full weeks. 272 00:19:39,676 --> 00:19:42,226 And then, the FBI got involved. 273 00:19:43,176 --> 00:19:47,226 I don't know if the FBI investigated it. 274 00:19:47,426 --> 00:19:49,186 They said they did. 275 00:19:50,346 --> 00:19:52,736 To this day, I've never seen nothing. 276 00:19:52,936 --> 00:19:56,636 We got no communication from them... at all. 277 00:19:56,836 --> 00:20:01,866 From the beginning of the investigation to the end. 278 00:20:03,526 --> 00:20:07,076 Why didn't the BIA investigate it properly? 279 00:20:08,946 --> 00:20:11,586 Why didn't the FBI investigate it properly? 280 00:20:13,616 --> 00:20:16,546 You know, what really happened that night? 281 00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:19,756 And why did it happen? 282 00:20:22,126 --> 00:20:26,996 We tried to let the ice system work for us. 283 00:20:27,196 --> 00:20:31,606 But I honestly believe that, being Native, 284 00:20:31,806 --> 00:20:34,226 that the system failed us. 285 00:20:34,856 --> 00:20:38,946 Not only us, but a lot of families around here. 286 00:20:42,316 --> 00:20:44,792 There's a concern and call for action following the 287 00:20:44,816 --> 00:20:47,116 death of a 14-year-old Lame Deer girl. 288 00:20:47,316 --> 00:20:51,286 On Tuesday, US Senator Jon Tester released a letter to FBI 289 00:20:51,496 --> 00:20:54,626 Director Christopher Wray and Acting BIA Director Darryl LaCounte. 290 00:20:55,596 --> 00:20:58,966 In it, Tester says the response to Henny Scott's disappearance 291 00:20:59,166 --> 00:21:01,806 was inadequate, and she isn't the first. 292 00:21:02,006 --> 00:21:05,476 Tester says these delayed, ineffective responses on Indian 293 00:21:05,676 --> 00:21:08,646 reservations are a trend, and there needs to be a much higher 294 00:21:08,846 --> 00:21:12,436 standard to protect citizens in Indian country. 295 00:21:53,386 --> 00:21:56,526 Big Horn County sits right on the south end of the 296 00:21:56,726 --> 00:22:00,526 Montana/Wyoming border, and it goes all the way 297 00:22:00,726 --> 00:22:02,486 to outside of Billings. 298 00:22:02,896 --> 00:22:05,856 It encompasses part of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation 299 00:22:05,896 --> 00:22:08,866 and most of the Crow Reservation. 300 00:22:11,066 --> 00:22:13,052 There's a difference between saying "Crow country" and 301 00:22:13,076 --> 00:22:15,046 "the Crow Reservation." 302 00:22:15,246 --> 00:22:17,546 The Crow Reservation has 2.2 million acres 303 00:22:17,746 --> 00:22:19,716 that's all within Montana. 304 00:22:19,916 --> 00:22:22,796 But "Crow country" is from the three forks of the Missouri, 305 00:22:22,916 --> 00:22:24,886 to the Milk River, to the Black Hills, 306 00:22:25,086 --> 00:22:27,346 to the Horse Creek in Wyoming. 307 00:22:27,546 --> 00:22:30,346 That's the way Crow people will see it. 308 00:22:50,526 --> 00:22:54,746 In the late 1860s, Crows became reservation people. 309 00:22:54,946 --> 00:22:58,416 It changed our identity and the way we view the world. 310 00:23:08,386 --> 00:23:11,936 They call it "living within the lines"... these arbitrary lines 311 00:23:12,136 --> 00:23:15,106 that are placed on the boundaries of the reservation by 312 00:23:15,306 --> 00:23:17,556 the US government. 313 00:23:17,846 --> 00:23:21,106 Annuities were passed out to tribal people as part of an 314 00:23:21,306 --> 00:23:25,276 agreement for moving to the reservation. 315 00:23:25,476 --> 00:23:28,616 Army bases were built outside 316 00:23:28,816 --> 00:23:30,196 of Indian reservations. 317 00:23:30,396 --> 00:23:33,132 Those army bases weren't put there to keep tribal people safe. 318 00:23:35,366 --> 00:23:40,126 Because of colonization and the Western land grab, 319 00:23:40,326 --> 00:23:44,796 tribal people were essentially prisoners on those reservations. 320 00:23:44,996 --> 00:23:48,136 So now, you get a group of people who were free... 321 00:23:48,336 --> 00:23:50,982 Hunt where they wanna hunt, go where they wanna go... 322 00:23:51,006 --> 00:23:55,306 And now are stuck and confined to the reservation. 323 00:24:00,346 --> 00:24:04,316 It's an ugly period of high levels of dysfunction... 324 00:24:04,516 --> 00:24:06,816 the mistreatment of each other. 325 00:24:07,016 --> 00:24:10,486 And the Federal government is a lot of the reason why we are the way... 326 00:24:12,026 --> 00:24:15,496 It's the conflict between our belief system 327 00:24:15,696 --> 00:24:17,826 and their belief system. 328 00:24:19,576 --> 00:24:21,052 When the Federal government implemented the 329 00:24:21,076 --> 00:24:25,506 reservation system, it was designed for us to fail 330 00:24:25,706 --> 00:24:28,176 and not thrive, so that we would move away, 331 00:24:28,376 --> 00:24:31,846 forget who we are, and assimilate. 332 00:24:32,046 --> 00:24:34,676 Then, you throw alcohol into it. 333 00:24:34,876 --> 00:24:37,846 So you have this whole time from the early 1900s where alcohol's 334 00:24:38,046 --> 00:24:42,026 placed into this an already-stripped people. 335 00:24:42,226 --> 00:24:44,856 These warriors are now emasculated. 336 00:24:45,056 --> 00:24:48,026 For one, they hold no position anymore; 337 00:24:48,226 --> 00:24:49,526 the government does. 338 00:24:49,726 --> 00:24:52,526 So the government now appoints who's gonna be the headmen 339 00:24:52,566 --> 00:24:53,786 of the tribe. 340 00:24:53,986 --> 00:24:57,036 So you have a defeated people that now are having kids, 341 00:24:57,236 --> 00:25:01,166 and those kids are raised by defeated people. 342 00:25:01,666 --> 00:25:04,386 When you take an entire society and you strip them of any self-worth 343 00:25:04,576 --> 00:25:07,506 and confidence they have... 344 00:25:08,336 --> 00:25:11,336 it becomes very fragile. 345 00:25:12,376 --> 00:25:15,386 That early reservation period is... 346 00:25:15,586 --> 00:25:18,896 it's a dangerous time, 'cause it laid the blueprint for 347 00:25:19,096 --> 00:25:22,226 everything that puts us where we are today. 348 00:25:22,426 --> 00:25:26,566 Ethereal 349 00:25:26,766 --> 00:25:30,566 On May the 5th, 2022, in Hardin, Montana, 350 00:25:30,766 --> 00:25:35,696 at the courthouse, there's a gathering for MMIW, 351 00:25:36,196 --> 00:25:40,076 missing/murdered indigenous women, 352 00:25:40,276 --> 00:25:43,416 and they're not being investigated and there's still a 353 00:25:43,616 --> 00:25:48,546 lot of missing indigenous women on our reservations. 354 00:25:49,256 --> 00:25:53,756 A lot of perpetrators do come to our Native communities 355 00:25:53,956 --> 00:25:56,602 because they do know that there are these gaps in jurisdiction 356 00:25:56,626 --> 00:25:59,766 and the likelihood of being held accountable is minimal. 357 00:26:02,636 --> 00:26:06,436 When you throw a crime into this area, 358 00:26:06,636 --> 00:26:10,106 it's a nightmare because Big Horn County has all of these 359 00:26:10,306 --> 00:26:11,946 jurisdictions. 360 00:26:12,146 --> 00:26:15,616 The Big Horn County Sheriff's Office has authority 361 00:26:15,816 --> 00:26:19,286 on county land off the reservation. 362 00:26:19,486 --> 00:26:21,462 For a crime that's committed on tribal lands, 363 00:26:21,486 --> 00:26:23,456 Federal law enforcement, the FBI, 364 00:26:23,656 --> 00:26:26,626 and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have jurisdiction. 365 00:26:26,826 --> 00:26:29,302 BIA law officers would be the ones who would show up 366 00:26:29,326 --> 00:26:32,796 immediately at a crime scene, and then FBI would be called 367 00:26:32,996 --> 00:26:35,136 in to do the investigation. 368 00:26:35,336 --> 00:26:38,476 But the BIA cannot exercise criminal jurisdiction over 369 00:26:38,676 --> 00:26:42,146 non-Indians when they commit crimes on tribal lands. 370 00:26:42,346 --> 00:26:45,476 And so, when we live on our tribal lands in our homes, 371 00:26:45,676 --> 00:26:48,486 our own government can't protect us from basically any crime 372 00:26:48,686 --> 00:26:50,316 committed by a non-Indian. 373 00:26:53,356 --> 00:26:56,326 And so, to figure out who has jurisdiction at any 374 00:26:56,526 --> 00:26:59,496 given time, you have to know who is the victim... are they Indian 375 00:26:59,696 --> 00:27:02,136 or not? Who is the perpetrator... are they Indian 376 00:27:02,196 --> 00:27:06,996 or not? Where did the crime occur... on Indian land or not? 377 00:27:07,196 --> 00:27:09,836 When it comes to violence against Native women, 378 00:27:10,036 --> 00:27:12,676 when it comes to missing and murdered situations, 379 00:27:12,876 --> 00:27:16,346 often times, we don't know where she went missing, 380 00:27:16,546 --> 00:27:19,676 we don't know who the perpetrator is. 381 00:27:19,876 --> 00:27:23,346 And so, I think often times, law enforcement are gonna say, 382 00:27:23,546 --> 00:27:24,732 "we don't have jurisdiction," 383 00:27:24,756 --> 00:27:26,192 or "We don't know if we have jurisdiction, 384 00:27:26,216 --> 00:27:27,296 so take it over there." 385 00:27:27,386 --> 00:27:29,356 So it falls through the cracks, 386 00:27:29,556 --> 00:27:33,526 and we end up really being almost a lawless community. 387 00:27:36,396 --> 00:27:39,536 The FBI has clear jurisdiction on tribal lands, 388 00:27:39,736 --> 00:27:43,206 but the FBI gets involved in cases of national importance. 389 00:27:43,406 --> 00:27:45,706 They get involved when they're told to. 390 00:27:45,906 --> 00:27:48,786 Often times, what they will say is that they want the local 391 00:27:48,906 --> 00:27:51,746 jurisdiction to invite them in, and they're waiting for that to happen. 392 00:27:54,666 --> 00:27:56,716 The jurisdictional issues, 393 00:27:56,916 --> 00:27:59,886 are one of the main reasons why Big Horn County has one of the 394 00:28:00,086 --> 00:28:02,232 highest rates of murdered and missing indigenous women and 395 00:28:02,256 --> 00:28:04,386 girls in the United States today. 396 00:28:23,026 --> 00:28:24,906 In late August of 2019, 397 00:28:25,106 --> 00:28:28,076 a body was found off the reservation in the city limits 398 00:28:28,276 --> 00:28:32,256 of Hardin, which is under the jurisdiction 399 00:28:32,456 --> 00:28:34,876 of the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office. 400 00:28:35,086 --> 00:28:39,256 The body was in a backyard 401 00:28:39,456 --> 00:28:42,266 along Mitchell Avenue. 402 00:28:42,466 --> 00:28:45,266 Mitchell Avenue is a very busy street. 403 00:28:45,466 --> 00:28:50,056 It is one of the main thoroughfares in town. 404 00:28:50,556 --> 00:28:52,936 As a man was jogging down the road, 405 00:28:53,136 --> 00:28:58,066 he passes a pile of debris in someone's yard. 406 00:28:59,236 --> 00:29:01,906 He said he had seen crows. 407 00:29:02,606 --> 00:29:06,956 He did a double-take and went back and realized... 408 00:29:07,156 --> 00:29:08,956 there was a body. 409 00:29:11,996 --> 00:29:15,586 It was 18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places. 410 00:29:18,666 --> 00:29:22,196 Kaysera was a fun-spirited young lady. 411 00:29:22,396 --> 00:29:24,466 She was a loving person. 412 00:29:28,676 --> 00:29:30,596 She was... 413 00:29:30,806 --> 00:29:32,646 her siblings' protectors. 414 00:29:32,846 --> 00:29:35,606 She was also that little mama. 415 00:29:36,016 --> 00:29:39,816 And she was the one they looked up to to be 416 00:29:40,016 --> 00:29:41,886 their stability. 417 00:29:42,086 --> 00:29:46,656 The situation that they were being raised in was... 418 00:29:46,856 --> 00:29:51,396 not a healthy, you know, stable life. 419 00:29:51,596 --> 00:29:53,666 Her parents drank a lot. 420 00:29:53,866 --> 00:29:56,336 At times, they did meth. 421 00:29:56,536 --> 00:29:59,836 But their substance of choice is alcohol. 422 00:30:00,036 --> 00:30:04,006 She really hated that, and so she was... 423 00:30:04,206 --> 00:30:07,346 getting really angry about it and upset when she started 424 00:30:07,546 --> 00:30:09,016 maturing. 425 00:30:09,216 --> 00:30:11,916 And then she became more forceful. 426 00:30:12,116 --> 00:30:14,532 She was the sister you didn't wanna piss off either. 427 00:30:15,886 --> 00:30:18,356 She was like Kaysera; she would... 428 00:30:18,556 --> 00:30:20,636 fight you and get it done and over with. 429 00:30:20,726 --> 00:30:24,526 But she was always there for her friends. 430 00:30:29,736 --> 00:30:33,036 The Crow tribe has their annual Crow Fair. 431 00:30:33,236 --> 00:30:35,546 It's always that third week of August, 432 00:30:35,746 --> 00:30:39,836 and Kaysera's birthday is always right in there. 433 00:30:41,836 --> 00:30:46,216 Crow Fair is a pow and it's on the Crow Reservation. 434 00:30:46,416 --> 00:30:48,386 There's parades, there's rodeo. 435 00:30:48,586 --> 00:30:50,556 We camp for those few days. 436 00:30:50,756 --> 00:30:53,556 A lot of my family come to visit, 437 00:30:53,756 --> 00:30:55,436 and so it's time for us to, like, 438 00:30:55,596 --> 00:30:58,516 catch up, dance at the pow 439 00:30:59,226 --> 00:31:02,906 And so Kaysera asked permission to stay a few 440 00:31:03,106 --> 00:31:06,906 more days with her aunt Percelia in Hardin. 441 00:31:07,106 --> 00:31:11,246 Happy birthday, dear Kaysera... 442 00:31:11,446 --> 00:31:14,326 The night that Kaysera disappeared was August 24th. 443 00:31:15,786 --> 00:31:18,086 She'd turned 18, 444 00:31:18,286 --> 00:31:22,256 and she went out to celebrate her birthday. 445 00:31:22,456 --> 00:31:25,756 Kaysera had her friends Isabella and Nakia with her. 446 00:31:25,956 --> 00:31:28,596 And they all got all dressed up and... 447 00:31:28,796 --> 00:31:31,766 I think Kaysera changed like three times that night, 448 00:31:31,966 --> 00:31:34,266 so she was really excited for that. 449 00:31:36,466 --> 00:31:38,936 Kaysera never made it home. 450 00:31:39,136 --> 00:31:41,936 When the girls woke up, I asked where Kaysera was. 451 00:31:42,146 --> 00:31:44,276 And they both looked at each other like, 452 00:31:44,476 --> 00:31:46,616 "We thought she already... 453 00:31:46,816 --> 00:31:48,116 came home." 454 00:31:48,316 --> 00:31:50,122 And I was like, " she's not home." 455 00:31:51,986 --> 00:31:54,456 I started reaching out, sending Kaysera messages, 456 00:31:54,656 --> 00:31:57,136 trying to call her and some of her friends and her 457 00:31:57,326 --> 00:32:00,296 sister-cousins, asking them to look. 458 00:32:03,326 --> 00:32:06,136 Everyone started getting more alarmed by Tuesday. 459 00:32:08,666 --> 00:32:10,812 When a young Native woman goes missing in Big Horn 460 00:32:10,836 --> 00:32:15,136 County, your mind immediately starts racing. 461 00:32:15,336 --> 00:32:18,146 They might be trafficked, they might be getting beaten to 462 00:32:18,346 --> 00:32:21,976 death, they might be being used as a drug mule. 463 00:32:22,186 --> 00:32:27,106 And the scariest part is the not knowing what's happening. 464 00:32:28,446 --> 00:32:29,832 I was like, 465 00:32:29,856 --> 00:32:31,662 "We need to go to the police station." 466 00:32:31,686 --> 00:32:33,946 So we went. 467 00:32:34,156 --> 00:32:37,826 And I felt like the officer, Jeramie Middlestead, 468 00:32:38,026 --> 00:32:39,842 didn't really take take me as serious. 469 00:32:39,866 --> 00:32:43,166 Like, I wasn't given a form to fill out, 470 00:32:43,366 --> 00:32:45,682 he jotted down the information on his little tablet 471 00:32:45,706 --> 00:32:47,836 that he carries in his pocket. 472 00:32:50,206 --> 00:32:53,006 There was no posters up, there was nothing put out there that 473 00:32:53,046 --> 00:32:54,846 she was missing. 474 00:32:55,046 --> 00:32:59,356 They weren't professional about the whole situation. 475 00:32:59,556 --> 00:33:02,856 And then, five days after Kaysera went missing, 476 00:33:03,056 --> 00:33:06,856 I got a message through one of my co-workers who lived on Range 477 00:33:07,056 --> 00:33:11,926 View that they found a young female... 478 00:33:12,126 --> 00:33:17,156 behind the house on Mitchell and Range View. 479 00:33:20,156 --> 00:33:23,706 But if it wasn't for my co-worker messaging me, 480 00:33:23,906 --> 00:33:26,496 I don't think any of us would have known. 481 00:33:26,996 --> 00:33:29,716 The Sheriff's Office didn't notify us to say, 482 00:33:29,916 --> 00:33:31,386 "Hey, we did find a body. 483 00:33:31,586 --> 00:33:33,386 It may be her, it may not be her; 484 00:33:33,586 --> 00:33:34,716 we don't know." 485 00:33:34,916 --> 00:33:37,556 They didn't say anything. 486 00:33:37,756 --> 00:33:41,056 She was taken to the State Crime Lab in Billings, 487 00:33:41,256 --> 00:33:42,726 Montana. 488 00:33:42,926 --> 00:33:47,516 And she was not identified until September 11th. 489 00:33:47,816 --> 00:33:51,566 They had to go into dental records to identify her officially. 490 00:33:53,666 --> 00:33:57,906 Then, after that was when she was finally returned to Hardin. 491 00:33:58,106 --> 00:34:01,536 From August 29th all the way to September 11th? 492 00:34:02,206 --> 00:34:04,816 That is a long time. 493 00:34:05,016 --> 00:34:10,046 We waited and waited for the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office to 494 00:34:10,336 --> 00:34:15,546 really even announce that a case was opened, 495 00:34:15,756 --> 00:34:20,436 that it was pending, that... 496 00:34:20,636 --> 00:34:25,396 new details are emerging, that anything was happening. 497 00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:30,726 As far as we knew, after Kaysera's body was identified... 498 00:34:33,236 --> 00:34:37,066 nothing else happened with her case. 499 00:34:38,736 --> 00:34:41,132 We were going every day to try to meet with 500 00:34:41,156 --> 00:34:42,626 the Sheriff's Department. 501 00:34:42,826 --> 00:34:43,956 We made every effort. 502 00:34:44,156 --> 00:34:48,126 Every day, we travelled 110 miles 503 00:34:48,326 --> 00:34:52,636 back and forth trying to meet with any official we could. 504 00:34:52,836 --> 00:34:55,926 And all the doors were closed to us. 505 00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:59,976 I got involved with Kaysera's case a couple weeks after she 506 00:35:00,176 --> 00:35:02,476 was murdered, and I got a call, 507 00:35:02,676 --> 00:35:04,822 and it was from one of Kaysera's family members and they 508 00:35:04,846 --> 00:35:06,316 said, "Can you help us?" 509 00:35:06,516 --> 00:35:09,156 Speaking as a lawyer and looking at the legal framework, 510 00:35:09,346 --> 00:35:11,492 it's very clear that what happened in August was a 511 00:35:11,516 --> 00:35:14,986 complete disregard for not only the rights of Kaysera but the 512 00:35:15,186 --> 00:35:18,996 rights of all Native women when local law enforcement failed to 513 00:35:19,196 --> 00:35:23,496 investigate her death and to take all steps necessary to look 514 00:35:23,696 --> 00:35:26,666 for her before finding her on August 29th. 515 00:35:26,866 --> 00:35:29,182 The family needed help with a Sheriff's Office that wouldn't 516 00:35:29,206 --> 00:35:31,506 even meet with them or talk to them, 517 00:35:31,706 --> 00:35:34,676 and an FBI agency who would not talk to them. 518 00:35:34,876 --> 00:35:38,506 They needed help getting someone to talk to them. 519 00:35:38,706 --> 00:35:41,516 Where she was found was within State jurisdiction, 520 00:35:41,716 --> 00:35:44,346 but the local law enforcement, Big Horn County, 521 00:35:44,546 --> 00:35:47,686 for a long time... ever since this was first reported to them 522 00:35:47,886 --> 00:35:50,766 at the end of August... has failed to take very basic 523 00:35:50,886 --> 00:35:53,856 steps to conduct an investigation looking into the 524 00:35:54,056 --> 00:35:56,146 causes surrounding her death. 525 00:35:56,646 --> 00:36:00,536 There are so many things about her case that are inexplicable. 526 00:36:00,736 --> 00:36:02,196 They also had her cell phone. 527 00:36:02,406 --> 00:36:05,536 It is very easy, as an investigative agency, 528 00:36:05,736 --> 00:36:08,382 to figure out who someone is based on the phone on the dead 529 00:36:08,406 --> 00:36:10,046 body when you find them. 530 00:36:12,416 --> 00:36:15,052 For two weeks, the family sat there and waited for 531 00:36:15,076 --> 00:36:18,676 results to see if it was her body or not. 532 00:36:18,876 --> 00:36:21,556 Why didn't they let the family know? 533 00:36:21,756 --> 00:36:23,636 Are they trying to cover something up? 534 00:36:23,756 --> 00:36:27,286 Did they have a complete disregard for the family? 535 00:36:27,486 --> 00:36:31,516 What's the reason for the lack of transparency there? 536 00:36:31,936 --> 00:36:36,566 The family has several different theories about what happened. 537 00:36:36,766 --> 00:36:40,236 One of their theories is that weeks before, 538 00:36:40,436 --> 00:36:44,746 during the annual Crow Fair pow celebration, 539 00:36:44,946 --> 00:36:48,416 Kaysera posted on her social media pages a fight that 540 00:36:48,616 --> 00:36:53,536 happened where police were called in and they started 541 00:36:53,746 --> 00:36:58,216 beating on one of the young boys who instigated the fight. 542 00:36:58,836 --> 00:37:04,216 The reason Kaysera did that was the boy that was beaten 543 00:37:04,506 --> 00:37:07,096 by the police was her brother. 544 00:37:07,296 --> 00:37:10,266 According to the police report, Kaysera's brother Esaias was 545 00:37:10,466 --> 00:37:14,106 acting aggressively and was resisting arrest. 546 00:37:14,306 --> 00:37:19,236 One of the officers that was accused of beating him was a 547 00:37:19,526 --> 00:37:23,236 deputy with the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office. 548 00:37:23,656 --> 00:37:26,786 The family alleges that one of the reasons that the Big Horn 549 00:37:26,986 --> 00:37:30,126 County Sheriff's Office treated Kaysera's case the way that they 550 00:37:30,326 --> 00:37:34,126 did was because they were embroiled in that altercation 551 00:37:34,326 --> 00:37:36,466 with her brother. 552 00:37:38,826 --> 00:37:41,966 There is a lot of very suspicious things about 553 00:37:42,166 --> 00:37:44,536 Kaysera's case and the way it was handled. 554 00:37:44,736 --> 00:37:47,312 The thing to know about Hardin is that it is a border town. 555 00:37:47,336 --> 00:37:49,856 The reservation arcs around a little bit and envelops the town. 556 00:37:50,596 --> 00:37:53,816 In fact, where Kaysera's body was found is right next to the 557 00:37:54,016 --> 00:37:56,376 border of the Crow Reservation. 558 00:37:56,576 --> 00:38:00,986 Hardin has a high population of Native people from the Crow and 559 00:38:01,186 --> 00:38:02,986 Northern Cheyenne Reservations. 560 00:38:03,186 --> 00:38:06,156 Also, a majority white population, 561 00:38:06,356 --> 00:38:10,496 so it makes for some difficult dynamics. 562 00:38:10,696 --> 00:38:12,842 There's a lot of non-Natives who have a lot of 563 00:38:12,866 --> 00:38:15,666 prejudice against Native people. 564 00:38:15,866 --> 00:38:19,336 And there's a significant devaluation of Native lives in 565 00:38:19,536 --> 00:38:20,536 these communities. 566 00:38:20,706 --> 00:38:24,006 And so, what ends up happening is 567 00:38:24,206 --> 00:38:27,516 you have a border town where violence against Native people 568 00:38:27,716 --> 00:38:30,346 is an accepted incorporated part of the culture, 569 00:38:30,546 --> 00:38:34,136 and no one in law enforcement bats an eye at it. 570 00:38:34,436 --> 00:38:37,356 The relationship between law enforcement and the 571 00:38:37,556 --> 00:38:41,476 Native community in Big Horn County is pretty tense. 572 00:38:41,686 --> 00:38:46,366 There's been complaints about our Sheriff's Office for years. 573 00:38:46,566 --> 00:38:48,036 There's an attitude. 574 00:38:48,236 --> 00:38:51,366 It's evident, 575 00:38:51,566 --> 00:38:53,036 tangible. 576 00:38:53,236 --> 00:38:56,546 When a tribal member goes missing off the reservation, 577 00:38:56,746 --> 00:39:00,876 County has to use their resources to either solve cases 578 00:39:01,076 --> 00:39:02,716 or fight crime... 579 00:39:02,916 --> 00:39:05,216 for "non-residents." 580 00:39:05,416 --> 00:39:09,886 And it really comes into play when we start looking at cases 581 00:39:10,086 --> 00:39:11,886 here in town. 582 00:39:13,636 --> 00:39:17,566 The Sheriff's Office refused to meet with Kaysera's family for 583 00:39:17,766 --> 00:39:21,236 several weeks, and finally met and said, 584 00:39:21,436 --> 00:39:26,356 "we think she walked over to this suburban yard and 585 00:39:26,646 --> 00:39:29,526 died and laid there for five days until we found her 586 00:39:29,606 --> 00:39:31,906 body on August 29th," 587 00:39:32,106 --> 00:39:34,036 which is crazy. 588 00:39:34,446 --> 00:39:37,416 If you go to that intersection, there's a car driving by every 30 seconds. 589 00:39:39,786 --> 00:39:43,756 The odds of her body laying there for five days 590 00:39:43,956 --> 00:39:45,086 is pretty much zero. 591 00:39:45,286 --> 00:39:47,256 There's no way that... 592 00:39:47,456 --> 00:39:48,846 no one would have seen her body. 593 00:39:49,046 --> 00:39:51,602 It's very clear that this is a homicide 594 00:39:51,626 --> 00:39:53,216 and there's foul play involved. 595 00:39:55,226 --> 00:39:59,436 When the body of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places was first 596 00:39:59,636 --> 00:40:04,106 discovered, the remains were decomposed, 597 00:40:04,306 --> 00:40:06,946 meaning that there was significant... 598 00:40:07,146 --> 00:40:09,116 change after death. 599 00:40:09,316 --> 00:40:11,946 We looked at everything pretty exhaustively. 600 00:40:12,146 --> 00:40:15,456 We don't have a cause of death that we can state confidently, 601 00:40:15,656 --> 00:40:18,626 and that's because of the decomposition change. 602 00:40:18,826 --> 00:40:21,956 So there are certainly possibilities that exist as a 603 00:40:22,156 --> 00:40:24,466 cause that I'm not at liberty to discuss, 604 00:40:24,666 --> 00:40:27,796 however some of those... 605 00:40:27,996 --> 00:40:31,966 would fall under the realm, in terms of the manner, 606 00:40:32,166 --> 00:40:35,266 as being classified as homicide. 607 00:40:35,556 --> 00:40:39,146 After her body was identified, 608 00:40:39,346 --> 00:40:43,986 they brought the remains back to Big Horn County to the coroner, 609 00:40:44,186 --> 00:40:49,106 Terry Bullis, who happens to be the only mortician in town. 610 00:40:50,606 --> 00:40:53,826 Terry Bullis is a non-Native white man business owner who 611 00:40:54,026 --> 00:40:57,826 owns a funeral home in Big Horn County, 612 00:40:58,026 --> 00:41:01,666 and he also, for a significant period of time, 613 00:41:01,866 --> 00:41:04,626 was the county coroner for Big Horn County. 614 00:41:04,916 --> 00:41:08,126 He cremated Kaysera's body. 615 00:41:08,416 --> 00:41:11,506 The family claims that he cremated her body against the family's wishes. 616 00:41:14,006 --> 00:41:16,522 And as their attorney, I filed a complaint against him to have 617 00:41:16,546 --> 00:41:19,136 his mortuary license removed. 618 00:41:19,766 --> 00:41:24,976 And the Montana commissioner decided not to do it. 619 00:41:25,266 --> 00:41:28,196 The Montana Funeral Service Board found that in the 620 00:41:28,396 --> 00:41:31,696 Kaysera case, Terry Bullis didn't do anything unlawful, 621 00:41:31,896 --> 00:41:34,372 but he didn't ask for authorization in the best way possible. 622 00:41:38,736 --> 00:41:40,856 But if Terry Bullis cremates your loved one, 623 00:41:40,906 --> 00:41:43,046 that's a pretty big slap in the face, 624 00:41:43,246 --> 00:41:47,376 because Crow people don't believe in cremating the body. 625 00:41:47,576 --> 00:41:52,216 If you're cremated, you're not gonna move into the next life. 626 00:41:52,416 --> 00:41:55,556 Imagine if you don't believe in cremation as a form 627 00:41:55,756 --> 00:41:58,886 of burial and you're forced to do that for your loved one. 628 00:41:59,086 --> 00:42:01,556 That is horrifically traumatic. 629 00:42:03,346 --> 00:42:07,236 I think the reason there has not been ice in this case is 630 00:42:07,436 --> 00:42:10,686 that Kaysera is a Native girl. 631 00:42:17,366 --> 00:42:18,922 Little information surrounds the 632 00:42:18,946 --> 00:42:21,076 passing of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places. 633 00:42:21,276 --> 00:42:24,416 She was reported missing by her family August 27th and her body 634 00:42:24,616 --> 00:42:27,086 was found two days later, August 29th. 635 00:42:27,286 --> 00:42:29,262 According to coordinators of the march, 636 00:42:29,286 --> 00:42:32,256 she is the 27th missing or murdered indigenous woman or 637 00:42:32,456 --> 00:42:34,096 girl in Big Horn County. 638 00:42:34,296 --> 00:42:35,096 Say her name! 639 00:42:35,296 --> 00:42:36,596 Kaysera! 640 00:42:36,796 --> 00:42:37,942 Say her name! 641 00:42:37,966 --> 00:42:39,266 Kaysera! 642 00:42:39,466 --> 00:42:41,436 I went to the ice march. 643 00:42:41,636 --> 00:42:43,106 Everyone dressed in red. 644 00:42:43,306 --> 00:42:46,436 They marched from the site where her body was found, 645 00:42:46,636 --> 00:42:48,952 down Mitchell Avenue, and they stopped in front of the Big Horn 646 00:42:48,976 --> 00:42:50,726 County courthouse. 647 00:42:52,066 --> 00:42:54,276 They were rallying people, they were... 648 00:42:54,476 --> 00:42:56,946 crying out for this ice. 649 00:42:57,146 --> 00:43:00,286 I still can't believe that this happened. 650 00:43:00,486 --> 00:43:02,456 We love our daughter so much. 651 00:43:02,656 --> 00:43:04,956 They're our family members... 652 00:43:05,156 --> 00:43:07,956 and we need to find out what happened to them. 653 00:43:08,156 --> 00:43:12,466 We all still had Henny Scott in the back of our minds. 654 00:43:13,996 --> 00:43:15,972 We all still had our sisters, our mothers, 655 00:43:15,996 --> 00:43:19,136 our aunts, our grandmothers in the back of our minds. 656 00:43:19,336 --> 00:43:21,896 Somebody knows something! 657 00:43:22,006 --> 00:43:25,146 People wanted to know what happened to this girl. 658 00:43:25,346 --> 00:43:28,476 What is the County gonna do to protect young women? 659 00:43:37,776 --> 00:43:42,786 With regard to the death of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places... 660 00:43:44,116 --> 00:43:47,666 this one is one of those cases 661 00:43:47,866 --> 00:43:52,336 where it deserves a complete, thorough investigation, 662 00:43:52,536 --> 00:43:57,466 because the findings in this case don't exclude homicide. 663 00:44:00,296 --> 00:44:03,806 I don't have a cause of death for Kaysera. 664 00:44:11,146 --> 00:44:14,696 What the hell is going on in this community that 665 00:44:14,896 --> 00:44:19,816 allows it to be so easy to disappear... 666 00:44:20,026 --> 00:44:22,036 over and over and over? 667 00:44:24,066 --> 00:44:27,706 Girls missing for two weeks, girls missing for five days, 668 00:44:27,906 --> 00:44:29,876 girls missing for seven days. 669 00:44:30,076 --> 00:44:31,706 Girl gets found. 670 00:44:31,906 --> 00:44:36,506 Unexplained injuries, unexplained disappearance. 671 00:44:37,836 --> 00:44:39,556 No questions are answered. 672 00:44:39,756 --> 00:44:41,676 "Hypothermia." 673 00:44:42,846 --> 00:44:44,726 "Undetermined." 674 00:44:44,926 --> 00:44:46,726 Every single time. 675 00:44:46,926 --> 00:44:48,056 Really, what the fuck? 676 00:44:48,256 --> 00:44:50,066 What the fuck is going on? 677 00:45:02,196 --> 00:45:06,536 Living on the reservation is like a perfect storm, right? 678 00:45:07,696 --> 00:45:11,916 That state that Natives were put in 679 00:45:12,116 --> 00:45:14,586 when they were put on reservations, 680 00:45:14,786 --> 00:45:17,376 that emotional state... 681 00:45:17,586 --> 00:45:22,386 it is alive and well on reservations today, 682 00:45:22,586 --> 00:45:26,936 because of the poverty, because of the joblessness, 683 00:45:27,136 --> 00:45:30,766 because of the drug addictions, the alcohol abuse. 684 00:45:30,966 --> 00:45:35,276 And on top of all of that dysfunction, 685 00:45:35,476 --> 00:45:37,776 put in a major highway 686 00:45:37,976 --> 00:45:41,776 with truckers going God-knows-where, 687 00:45:41,976 --> 00:45:46,616 with traffic from across this country going God-knows-where, 688 00:45:46,816 --> 00:45:49,786 put in close proximity to Canada, 689 00:45:49,986 --> 00:45:53,796 where we have opioids and meth coming in... 690 00:45:53,996 --> 00:45:57,966 Washington and Oregon, where we have drug cartels coming in. 691 00:45:58,166 --> 00:46:01,136 And drug cartels, they're not trafficking drugs, 692 00:46:01,336 --> 00:46:03,426 they're trafficking people. 693 00:46:04,636 --> 00:46:08,766 All of that is concentrated in this area. 694 00:46:08,966 --> 00:46:13,816 Sex trafficking is, something that we have to look 695 00:46:14,016 --> 00:46:17,146 at with regard to missing and murdered Indian women. 696 00:46:17,346 --> 00:46:19,322 Native American woman and girls are 697 00:46:19,346 --> 00:46:22,486 over three percent of the population here in Montana. 698 00:46:22,686 --> 00:46:26,946 They make up 30 to 40 percent of trafficking victims. 699 00:46:27,236 --> 00:46:30,166 And that's where we come into non-Native people 700 00:46:30,366 --> 00:46:33,896 coming in and seeing an opportunity to be predatory. 701 00:46:34,096 --> 00:46:39,126 The idea that white men in particular are the villain, 702 00:46:39,336 --> 00:46:43,676 is pretty pervasive in our community. 703 00:46:43,876 --> 00:46:46,846 Pioneers or people moving westward were not the most moral 704 00:46:47,046 --> 00:46:50,016 or ethical people, and Native people were the target of a lot of that. 705 00:46:50,926 --> 00:46:53,856 There is this idea that there's this white boogeyman, 706 00:46:54,056 --> 00:46:56,856 that there's someone from the outside that's coming in to harm 707 00:46:56,886 --> 00:47:00,196 us, that people from outside our community can come in and take 708 00:47:00,396 --> 00:47:02,856 what they want; they can take the resources, 709 00:47:03,066 --> 00:47:06,366 they can take our women, and nothing will happen. 710 00:47:06,566 --> 00:47:11,486 And it's this feeling of Native women's lives are disposable. 711 00:47:15,576 --> 00:47:20,496 As a Crow woman, that nurturing and protecting is engrained in 712 00:47:20,706 --> 00:47:25,546 who I am, and it's exacerbated when we add in a murdered and 713 00:47:25,746 --> 00:47:29,506 missing persons crisis in Big Horn County. 714 00:47:31,096 --> 00:47:34,896 Not enough people are worrying, and not enough people 715 00:47:35,096 --> 00:47:36,846 are taking action. 716 00:47:40,516 --> 00:47:43,066 In covering Kaysera, it was hard. 717 00:47:43,266 --> 00:47:47,576 The Sheriff's Office has been quiet about this case... 718 00:47:47,776 --> 00:47:50,196 Abnormally quiet. 719 00:47:50,826 --> 00:47:53,786 There are so many questions surrounding the cause 720 00:47:53,946 --> 00:47:55,536 of her death. 721 00:47:55,746 --> 00:47:59,916 I wanna know who else was there the night that she died 722 00:48:00,116 --> 00:48:01,416 and what they know. 723 00:48:01,616 --> 00:48:05,756 I wanna know if they were questioned by Big Horn County. 724 00:48:05,956 --> 00:48:10,046 And I wanna know why she was in that yard. 725 00:48:10,466 --> 00:48:14,386 I find it odd that she laid down and died. 726 00:48:14,676 --> 00:48:17,266 It makes no sense to me. 727 00:48:20,806 --> 00:48:25,106 My job is to inform the community of what's going on, 728 00:48:25,306 --> 00:48:28,616 and to try my best to... 729 00:48:28,816 --> 00:48:33,736 maybe not bring ice, but to at least give them answers. 730 00:48:34,406 --> 00:48:36,246 That's my goal. 731 00:48:37,746 --> 00:48:40,746 I'm still trying to get information. 732 00:48:41,376 --> 00:48:44,966 And then, all of a sudden, we're into the new year. 733 00:48:45,166 --> 00:48:48,926 First day of the new year, we have a missing girl. 734 00:48:49,586 --> 00:48:51,256 And... 735 00:48:52,756 --> 00:48:56,306 it was a girl I knew. 736 00:48:58,476 --> 00:49:03,266 It was Selena Not Afraid, 16 years old. 737 00:49:03,686 --> 00:49:08,656 She was last seen on eastbound Interstate 90. 738 00:49:12,186 --> 00:49:14,002 A missing endangered person advisory has 739 00:49:14,026 --> 00:49:18,166 been issued for a 16-year-old girl in Big Horn County. 740 00:49:18,366 --> 00:49:22,456 It blew my mind that she was gone that fast. 741 00:49:23,126 --> 00:49:25,236 Disappeared. 742 00:49:25,436 --> 00:49:27,176 Into thin air. 743 00:49:30,876 --> 00:49:35,246 There is the frenzy to find her. 744 00:49:35,446 --> 00:49:40,416 I've never seen a reaction like that to a missing person. 745 00:49:40,616 --> 00:49:42,856 They had everything out there. 746 00:49:43,056 --> 00:49:45,476 You name it, they had it. 747 00:49:45,896 --> 00:49:49,486 If anybody has a chance of surviving... 748 00:49:51,316 --> 00:49:53,696 it's Selena Not Afraid. 59956

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