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I was born and raised here,
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and my identity is with my people here
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on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation.
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I'm very proud because every day I'm reminded of our victory...
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because 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 ading 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, because you never know if an enemy
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is gonna 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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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
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in the media than I have ever seen before.
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Five, six years ago, we weren't getting
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any news 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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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 did was help solidify Big
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Horn County's Murdered and
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Missing Indigenous Women's Movement nationwide.
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Ice 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 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 Office,
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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 decision
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to insulate myself from any investigations
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because...
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I, as a law enforcement officer, cannot compromise
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an 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, he wanted
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a Native 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 relieved.
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If you can imagine the pressure that you felt
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from 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
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at the rest area looking, she wasn't there.
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Because that's what it is: they took her back.
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There's all kinds of roads back there
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on that little section she 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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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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Because we couldn't find her.
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To my knowledge of what law enforcement shared
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with 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
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my 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
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about what happened to each of these girls, but the factors that played
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into the situations that they were put in the night
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that each one 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
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in the grand scheme of things, we wouldn't have
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these social 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
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that are 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
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that they no longer had that cultural connection
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and could be assimilated into mainstream society.
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The legacy of Indian boarding schools
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is a perfect example of that.
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Boarding schools is where we see some of the first heartbreaking stories
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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
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with boarding schools.
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Starting in the early 1860s, boarding schools were run
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by the 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
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at very early ages... we're talking,
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five, six years old... and ship them off
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to the boarding schools.
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The boarding schools wanted to get rid
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of the 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 children,
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children, generations of children being subjected
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to 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
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into generations carrying that.
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For a lot of people, these cycles of abuse
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are hard to 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
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by the schools.
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So this idea of loving homes and
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all of that goes right out the window.
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When you raise a society with those kinds of social issues
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in 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 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 what the government wanted;
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they wanted us to self-destruct.
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And we didn't self-destruct, we learned how to live
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within 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
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from the heartache.
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So much of it is this generations of trauma
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that we 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
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in higher rates of domestic violence in our communities,
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these cycles of abuse, these cycles of addiction.
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So we start to see
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this Native-on-Native violence.
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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
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than it is to 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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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
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and found 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
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and 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
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to each 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
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are committing acts of violence against other tribal members.
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In a lot of Native communities, there is this idea
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that there's this white boogeyman, that there's someone
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from the outside that's coming in to harm us.
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And the majority of the violence that our Native women
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are 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 the main vulnerability is this hole
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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 falls through the cracks.
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What we do here feels like a war,
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the trauma that we go through.
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And I feel like it's exacerbated when we add in a murdered
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and 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 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,
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an Indigenous woman and as a journalist
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to inform and protect.
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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
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is 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
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into 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
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into those people.
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18-year-old Kaysera Stops Pretty Places went missing
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on August 24th, 2019.
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Five days later, her body was found by a jogger
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along Mitchell Avenue.
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This one is Kaysera's memorial, but she was found
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on the other side of the fence.
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Due to the decomposition, they had to go into dental records
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to 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
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for a murder 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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It would do, four.
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Kaysera was the first case I took on in Montana.
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That opened my eyes to how many barriers are in place
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to a family who's fighting to get ice.
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Do you want "ice for Kaysera?"
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Is that what you want?
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- Yeah.
- Okay.
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This is a family who has worked tirelessly and advocated tirelessly,
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and they still can't get a law enforcement agency
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to 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
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a loved one has had 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
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who last saw her."
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And 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 ice until we get
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the ice that we deserve.
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Big Horn County Sheriff's Office might claim to have investigated
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the people Kaysera was with the night
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she went missing.
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I don't have any evidence to indicate they did.
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Today is May 5th.
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It's a National Day of Awareness
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for Missing and Murdered 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
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was organized by 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
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who have lost a loved one to demand ice for all of the 44 victims
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who have been murdered or gone missing in this area.
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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.
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This unit was started during President Trump's administration;
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it was called Operation Lady ice Task Force.
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This office had our letter asking them
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to investigate Kaysera's case.
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It took a year and a half for them to agree
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to talk to the family.
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Secretary Haaland became the first Native secretary
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in the 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
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that this unit of BIA law officers, the MMU,
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is what's going to solve the problem for missing
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and murdered 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 isn't anything
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at this time that the MMU can do since her body
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was found outside of federal jurisdiction because it was 300 yards off
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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
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would investigate her murder.
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But then the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office is refusing
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to consent to that, and that's why the MMU
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can't do anything for 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
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or value Native lives?
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And 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 continue to lose Native lives out here.
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We've got a murder of an 18-year-old girl
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that no one's investigating.
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Everyone's trying to blame everyone else or say,
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"it's not my responsibility because it's 300 yards off
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of where my responsibility starts."
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Even in this administration, with a president
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that says he 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
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that can be talked to.
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Poor Kaysera, it was so tragic.
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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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I want closure.
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I do want closure for Kaysera because she deserves it;
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she deserves ice.
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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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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 "Okay, 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
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in the public report was that...
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there were people in a driveway along the houses in the area.
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Because she was at a house next door
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from where her body was found.
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And they were there with a male, who was the one
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that provided 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.
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But his mother is the one that has the house in town
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there on Rangeview.
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In Kaysera's case, I wanna know who she was with the night
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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 laid down and died.
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What could have possibly happened
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and how could it be 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 wanted to give you an opportunity to see if Natosi
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if Natosi 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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This one is difficult because there's been so much rumor
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and conjecture surrounding it.
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And the people that I'm trying to pin down
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are people that 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 outside of town,
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and she was one of the people that was last seen with
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Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, and she's agreed
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to give me an interview.
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She has not spoken to media at all,
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so what I get from Nakia today
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will be new information for the public.
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Okay.
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Thank you for coming.
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I 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 gonna wait 'til the nighttime and head out.
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To do...?
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Party and...
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drink.
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Isabella, she said that her baby daddy Natosi could be a buyer.
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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 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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He was holding onto her, and she didn't know what to do
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because she was trying to pull away from him.
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So Kaysera stepped in and was
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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,
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trying to say sorry and ask her to stay.
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And I remember, at the end of the road,
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we got in front of that house, and they were yelling around
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at each other, and then me and Kaysera didn't know
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what to do because...
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they weren't listening to us.
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Yeah.
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And then that's when I looked over and then that car was,
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going, locking and unlocking.
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And then a cop went by and it, scared us.
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Everyone kind of panicked and started taking off.
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We kind of all lost each other,
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and I was hiding under a truck.
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I waited there for a while.
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That's when Isabella was "Where's Kaysera?"
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And I was "I don't know!"
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We were yelling her name, and she wasn't saying nothing,
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and then we didn't see her anywhere.
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We started to walk back to Natosi's house,
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and then Natosi was pulling out of his driveway.
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And when he saw us, he started going faster
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and kind of chased us with his truck.
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So where did you guys go then?
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We ran through these houses,
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and he was following us in the alleys and stuff.
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And it scared us.
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We, cut around that house and hid into these bushes,
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and then we saw him drive by, and he drove by real fast,
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like he was looking for us.
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We saw him go back to his house.
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And then that's when Isabella started crying,
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"I'm scared, I wanna go back."
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And then that's when I said,
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"Well...
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Kaysera will probably go back home.
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She's smart.
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She always... she always comes back,
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and she'll be back."
524
00:30:40,166 --> 00:30:43,716
So we took off back to Percelia's house.
525
00:30:45,256 --> 00:30:47,886
When you guys were yelling for her,
526
00:30:48,086 --> 00:30:51,806
you were still in that immediate area where the house was.
527
00:30:52,006 --> 00:30:53,976
And you didn't hear anything?
528
00:30:54,176 --> 00:30:56,766
You didn't hear her rustling in bushes,
529
00:30:56,976 --> 00:30:57,976
you didn't hear...
530
00:30:58,096 --> 00:31:00,726
There was no response?
531
00:31:01,856 --> 00:31:04,646
My goodness.
532
00:31:04,986 --> 00:31:09,946
What kind of stuff did you know about Natosi before this night?
533
00:31:10,146 --> 00:31:14,326
I don't think I knew who he was.
534
00:31:14,526 --> 00:31:18,956
I don't think I ever met him or heard about him.
535
00:31:32,716 --> 00:31:36,806
What I want to do is either speak to Natosi
536
00:31:37,016 --> 00:31:41,936
or speak to Isabella to tell their stories.
537
00:31:44,776 --> 00:31:48,906
Reaching them is incredibly difficult because...
538
00:31:50,616 --> 00:31:55,036
I had texted Natosi's mom previously.
539
00:31:55,236 --> 00:31:58,746
She said that she would think about...
540
00:31:58,946 --> 00:32:02,626
possibly letting him do an interview.
541
00:32:07,046 --> 00:32:08,546
Hi, it's Luella.
542
00:32:08,756 --> 00:32:11,482
I was wondering if you had given any more thought
543
00:32:11,506 --> 00:32:13,636
to an interview with Natosi.
544
00:32:13,836 --> 00:32:17,186
I want to make sure I give you every opportunity
545
00:32:17,386 --> 00:32:19,856
to have that interview.
546
00:32:33,156 --> 00:32:36,496
I texted his mother one more time,
547
00:32:36,696 --> 00:32:41,626
and she wasn't too pleasant in her response.
548
00:32:42,666 --> 00:32:45,676
Basically, I shouldn't bother them.
549
00:32:45,876 --> 00:32:50,046
His family says he didn't do anything to her.
550
00:33:00,596 --> 00:33:03,316
We're heading over to the Big Horn County courthouse.
551
00:33:03,426 --> 00:33:07,276
I gotta fill out a couple of forms
552
00:33:07,476 --> 00:33:09,906
to get public information for...
553
00:33:10,106 --> 00:33:13,026
Kaysera's case.
554
00:33:14,986 --> 00:33:18,706
I hear a lot of outcry from the public about
555
00:33:18,906 --> 00:33:22,036
how the County Attorney's Office is not doing their job,
556
00:33:22,246 --> 00:33:25,316
but I see lack of investigation
557
00:33:25,326 --> 00:33:28,386
on the part of the Sheriff's Office.
558
00:33:30,506 --> 00:33:33,926
Because that's where any County Attorney's Office
559
00:33:34,126 --> 00:33:35,766
is gonna get their evidence.
560
00:33:37,426 --> 00:33:39,112
Hi, this message is for Jeramie Middlestead.
561
00:33:39,136 --> 00:33:42,566
I'm writing a story about the Kaysera Stops Pretty Places case
562
00:33:42,766 --> 00:33:45,186
and I wanted to get some input from you.
563
00:33:45,386 --> 00:33:49,026
Jeramie Middlestead took the initial police report
564
00:33:49,226 --> 00:33:51,566
for the disappearance of Kaysera.
565
00:33:54,146 --> 00:33:56,586
Trying to talk to law enforcement
566
00:33:56,646 --> 00:33:57,646
is like pulling teeth.
567
00:33:57,776 --> 00:34:00,496
It's incredibly difficult.
568
00:34:00,696 --> 00:34:02,762
Nobody in the Big Horn County Sheriff's Office
569
00:34:02,786 --> 00:34:05,756
would ever even return your calls to do an interview with you
570
00:34:05,956 --> 00:34:08,166
while they're still employed there.
571
00:34:08,366 --> 00:34:10,816
They wouldn't do it.
572
00:34:11,016 --> 00:34:13,176
I'm in Idaho, I'm not in Montana anymore,
573
00:34:13,376 --> 00:34:18,346
their tentacles can't reach me here.
574
00:34:19,306 --> 00:34:20,976
I'd have never done it in Montana.
575
00:34:21,176 --> 00:34:22,556
Never.
576
00:34:22,756 --> 00:34:25,322
The Sheriff's Office in Big Horn County would have retribution
577
00:34:25,346 --> 00:34:26,786
against you if you spoke up.
578
00:34:26,926 --> 00:34:29,066
They'd make your life hell there.
579
00:34:29,266 --> 00:34:31,066
You'd have to move.
580
00:34:31,486 --> 00:34:35,236
I don't appear today in my official capacity
581
00:34:35,436 --> 00:34:39,406
as the undersheriff for Big Horn County, Montana.
582
00:34:39,606 --> 00:34:43,996
I came to the conclusion that I would have to come
583
00:34:44,196 --> 00:34:47,956
in my personal capacity as a dad.
584
00:34:52,036 --> 00:34:55,006
The Big Horn County sheriffs are hands-off
585
00:34:55,206 --> 00:34:56,686
when it comes to the media.
586
00:34:56,796 --> 00:35:01,516
BIA and FBI has a no-media policy in place for unsolved cases,
587
00:35:01,716 --> 00:35:06,396
so law enforcement hasn't given anyone any clarity.
588
00:35:06,596 --> 00:35:08,622
The mailbox is full and cannot accept
589
00:35:08,646 --> 00:35:10,696
any messages at this time.
590
00:35:14,976 --> 00:35:18,236
Kaysera's case is one of many cases
591
00:35:18,436 --> 00:35:22,116
they have mishandled and failed to investigate.
592
00:35:23,906 --> 00:35:27,262
Still to this day, there's evidence there that hasn't been collected.
593
00:35:27,746 --> 00:35:29,722
There are witnesses that haven't been interviewed.
594
00:35:29,746 --> 00:35:34,046
But knowing what we know about this sheriff's office
595
00:35:34,246 --> 00:35:36,046
and this criminal ice system in Montana,
596
00:35:36,246 --> 00:35:39,126
law enforcement will leave it where it is unless we build up
597
00:35:39,256 --> 00:35:42,726
enough public pressure and momentum
598
00:35:42,926 --> 00:35:45,176
that requires them to do their job.
599
00:35:45,386 --> 00:35:48,226
But it is a crisis in Indian country.
600
00:35:48,426 --> 00:35:51,066
You have jurisdictional issues, and oftentimes, in border towns,
601
00:35:51,266 --> 00:35:54,736
you've got law officers and sheriffs who do not respect Native lives
602
00:35:54,936 --> 00:35:58,196
and have no desire to do anything to save a Native life
603
00:35:58,396 --> 00:36:00,832
or to investigate who may have murdered
604
00:36:00,856 --> 00:36:02,986
a Native woman or girl.
605
00:36:07,206 --> 00:36:10,086
- What do we want?!
- Ice!
606
00:36:10,286 --> 00:36:12,802
Nearly a thousand people made their way down 27th Street,
607
00:36:12,826 --> 00:36:16,262
finishing at the Yellowstone County Courthouse lawn.
608
00:36:16,836 --> 00:36:20,716
Murdered and missing women have gone on far
609
00:36:20,916 --> 00:36:22,426
before it has come to attention!
610
00:36:22,626 --> 00:36:26,846
I had to decide if I was gonna stay quiet or if I was gonna stay loud,
611
00:36:27,046 --> 00:36:30,005
because there are so many
612
00:36:30,006 --> 00:36:33,686
that haven't been brought back.
613
00:36:33,886 --> 00:36:36,486
I have to be here; I have to be advocating.
614
00:36:36,686 --> 00:36:38,526
If I don't, who will?
615
00:36:38,726 --> 00:36:41,606
When they close your case and put it in a filing cabinet,
616
00:36:41,646 --> 00:36:43,286
that's a bad thing.
617
00:36:43,486 --> 00:36:46,206
So that's why you keep advocating for your loved ones.
618
00:36:46,406 --> 00:36:50,206
Keep saying their names because once their names are forgotten,
619
00:36:50,406 --> 00:36:52,956
once you stop, they're done.
620
00:36:53,156 --> 00:36:55,262
In a lot of our traditions, they're told,
621
00:36:55,286 --> 00:36:55,506
"Forget about 'em."
622
00:36:55,706 --> 00:36:56,466
You don't talk about 'em.
623
00:36:56,666 --> 00:36:58,176
You let 'em go."
624
00:36:58,376 --> 00:37:00,062
Why would you forget about somebody?
625
00:37:00,086 --> 00:37:02,216
Why would you wanna do that?
626
00:37:02,416 --> 00:37:05,176
We've got families 25, 30 years later finally able to say,
627
00:37:05,376 --> 00:37:07,266
"Hey, what about my sister?
628
00:37:07,466 --> 00:37:09,556
What about my mom?"
629
00:37:10,226 --> 00:37:13,316
Our life without Henny is...
630
00:37:13,516 --> 00:37:15,106
very hard.
631
00:37:15,306 --> 00:37:19,736
I can't mourn her death because of the anger I feel.
632
00:37:19,936 --> 00:37:21,502
Don't give up on Shacaiah.
633
00:37:21,526 --> 00:37:24,946
Her being so strong-willed, she's still fighting.
634
00:37:25,146 --> 00:37:29,166
And I hope that she knows that we're still fighting for her.
635
00:37:29,366 --> 00:37:30,882
Kaysera deserves ice.
636
00:37:30,906 --> 00:37:35,006
She would take the shirt off of her back to help others.
637
00:37:35,206 --> 00:37:37,876
Why couldn't they do that for her?
638
00:37:38,076 --> 00:37:41,506
Selena shouldn't have gone through this.
639
00:37:41,706 --> 00:37:45,306
There should be ice for her more than what she got.
640
00:37:48,546 --> 00:37:51,146
Since these doors back here are closed to us,
641
00:37:51,346 --> 00:37:55,186
the ice that we need, answers that we need,
642
00:37:55,386 --> 00:37:56,386
we don't get it.
643
00:37:56,556 --> 00:37:57,782
I wanna tell everybody, "Don't give up.
644
00:37:57,806 --> 00:37:58,566
Don't give up."
645
00:37:58,766 --> 00:38:00,246
I want ice.
646
00:38:00,436 --> 00:38:03,446
I want to keep pushing and get these officials to do the job
647
00:38:03,646 --> 00:38:05,486
that they're supposed to be doing.
648
00:38:05,686 --> 00:38:09,286
This is what Kaysera would have been doing.
649
00:38:09,486 --> 00:38:13,286
She was an advocate for anybody that was an underdog.
650
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
651
00:38:16,326 --> 00:38:18,876
situation, and...
652
00:38:19,076 --> 00:38:20,626
it took a while.
653
00:38:20,836 --> 00:38:23,286
I believe if it didn't take that long,
654
00:38:23,386 --> 00:38:25,386
that we would have found her,
655
00:38:25,416 --> 00:38:27,636
and she would've still been with us.
656
00:38:27,836 --> 00:38:31,016
I have no faith in our ice system.
657
00:38:31,216 --> 00:38:33,356
When I pass that sign of Henny's,
658
00:38:33,556 --> 00:38:35,436
I wanna find ice for her,
659
00:38:35,636 --> 00:38:38,856
that she didn't pass for nothing.
660
00:38:39,056 --> 00:38:40,736
She's spreading awareness.
661
00:38:40,936 --> 00:38:42,446
I want her to be remembered.
662
00:38:42,646 --> 00:38:44,986
Ice for Henny!
663
00:38:45,186 --> 00:38:47,212
May 5th is National Missing and
664
00:38:47,236 --> 00:38:49,265
Murdered Indigenous Person's Awareness Day.
665
00:38:49,266 --> 00:38:51,462
There are many events across the country
666
00:38:51,486 --> 00:38:54,086
to highlight the huge problem facing Native American communities.
667
00:38:54,196 --> 00:38:57,706
No more stolen sisters!
668
00:38:58,456 --> 00:39:01,376
It's light and dark; it's like out of the worst,
669
00:39:01,416 --> 00:39:03,796
most horrifying thing that could ever happen,
670
00:39:03,996 --> 00:39:07,806
we're able to see this community of mothers and families who have lost
671
00:39:08,006 --> 00:39:10,976
their loved ones coming together and offering each other support,
672
00:39:11,176 --> 00:39:15,226
and the love that we show each other
673
00:39:15,426 --> 00:39:18,936
as community members through this is that light.
674
00:39:19,136 --> 00:39:22,356
When push comes to shove, our people are resilient,
675
00:39:22,556 --> 00:39:24,196
our people care about each other,
676
00:39:24,396 --> 00:39:27,406
and we support each other.
677
00:39:47,046 --> 00:39:50,006
I don't ever come over here.
678
00:39:52,966 --> 00:39:56,426
I don't think your grandma and papa ever come here either.
679
00:40:01,016 --> 00:40:03,896
You know how your papa had a sister?
680
00:40:04,896 --> 00:40:08,986
Her name was Beverly... Beverly Diane...
681
00:40:09,186 --> 00:40:11,286
And everybody called her "DeeDee."
682
00:40:14,276 --> 00:40:18,496
When they found her, they found her over here,
683
00:40:18,696 --> 00:40:20,746
somewhere between...
684
00:40:20,956 --> 00:40:23,336
the cattle chutes and the fence.
685
00:40:29,546 --> 00:40:34,596
Gosh, she was 16 when that happened to her.
686
00:40:36,306 --> 00:40:39,396
And your grandparents...
687
00:40:39,596 --> 00:40:42,396
they won't talk about it.
688
00:40:44,146 --> 00:40:45,146
Come here over here.
689
00:40:45,186 --> 00:40:47,406
Come stand by me.
690
00:40:53,866 --> 00:40:55,906
Do you know why they don't talk about it?
691
00:40:56,116 --> 00:40:58,366
Because it's sad.
692
00:40:59,656 --> 00:41:03,876
In my family, I don't think my parents have come
693
00:41:04,076 --> 00:41:08,136
to a place of acceptance yet for what happened
694
00:41:08,336 --> 00:41:10,126
to my dad's sister.
695
00:41:10,376 --> 00:41:15,556
I don't think that any of us can tell them it's okay.
696
00:41:16,756 --> 00:41:19,556
We've tried.
697
00:41:19,756 --> 00:41:22,646
They hold onto a lot of guilt.
698
00:41:23,516 --> 00:41:26,316
And...
699
00:41:26,976 --> 00:41:29,566
I don't think that...
700
00:41:29,766 --> 00:41:31,526
I don't think they'll ever get there,
701
00:41:35,946 --> 00:41:40,866
People who have lost a family member tragically like this...
702
00:41:41,746 --> 00:41:46,216
there's a guilt associated
703
00:41:46,416 --> 00:41:48,626
with moving on.
704
00:41:48,826 --> 00:41:51,096
If they move through their grief,
705
00:41:51,296 --> 00:41:53,426
then they're forgetting that person.
706
00:42:00,476 --> 00:42:04,186
They were one of the last people that saw her.
707
00:42:04,806 --> 00:42:08,646
That's why I'm so overly protective of you guys...
708
00:42:09,476 --> 00:42:12,856
because I'm so scared something's going to happen.
709
00:42:16,316 --> 00:42:19,866
My daughter's gonna be 13 and...
710
00:42:20,066 --> 00:42:23,576
has already had a target on her...
711
00:42:25,206 --> 00:42:30,206
simply by being born a female Native in this area.
712
00:42:39,096 --> 00:42:43,646
That, in itself, makes me fearful,
713
00:42:43,846 --> 00:42:47,556
but it also makes me more vigilant as a parent.
714
00:42:48,766 --> 00:42:53,566
Everything, that I do with her is based
715
00:42:54,946 --> 00:42:59,576
in situational awareness and keeping her safe.
716
00:43:01,196 --> 00:43:06,246
And that feeling of being in danger goes back...
717
00:43:07,246 --> 00:43:08,972
My generation, my mother's generation,
718
00:43:08,996 --> 00:43:11,586
my grandmother's generation.
719
00:43:11,836 --> 00:43:15,086
It makes up who we are.
720
00:43:15,336 --> 00:43:19,006
I feel like it's part of the fabric
721
00:43:19,106 --> 00:43:22,116
of Native women in this community.
722
00:43:23,466 --> 00:43:28,516
We grow up thinking that survival is culture,
723
00:43:29,896 --> 00:43:33,446
and pretty soon, we're doing things that we think
724
00:43:33,646 --> 00:43:36,202
are cultural practices when,
725
00:43:36,226 --> 00:43:38,616
they're survival techniques.
726
00:43:40,736 --> 00:43:44,376
We have to think, "Okay, what can we do
727
00:43:44,576 --> 00:43:47,126
to preserve what we have left?"
728
00:43:47,326 --> 00:43:49,876
And figure out what to do to thrive.
729
00:43:57,006 --> 00:43:58,852
Sometimes, we're trying to find
730
00:43:58,876 --> 00:44:02,176
a non-Indian solution for a Native problem.
731
00:44:02,376 --> 00:44:06,516
The majority of us don't look to our culture for the answer.
732
00:44:08,886 --> 00:44:13,606
Traditionally, we believe that tribal members hold value.
733
00:44:16,396 --> 00:44:18,606
That you're something.
734
00:44:19,276 --> 00:44:22,696
That you have self-respect; that you were made by the most
735
00:44:22,906 --> 00:44:25,946
Our universe.
736
00:44:26,196 --> 00:44:29,086
That they took mud from the ground and the Creator
737
00:44:29,286 --> 00:44:31,296
breathed into it...
738
00:44:31,496 --> 00:44:34,746
and then placed life into it.
739
00:44:34,996 --> 00:44:37,426
And said...
740
00:44:37,626 --> 00:44:39,266
"The people on top of the ground."
741
00:44:51,146 --> 00:44:54,186
at that point, it's no longer a male
742
00:44:54,386 --> 00:44:55,606
and a female thing.
743
00:44:55,806 --> 00:44:57,856
We hold value and we know we're something.
744
00:44:58,066 --> 00:45:02,946
Drumming and chanting
745
00:45:04,446 --> 00:45:06,132
Then he said...
746
00:45:06,156 --> 00:45:08,416
"You're the ones beside me."
747
00:45:08,616 --> 00:45:10,956
That's not a place to be discarded.
748
00:45:18,046 --> 00:45:20,966
If we return to those values,
749
00:45:21,166 --> 00:45:24,766
nobody can be hurt within that system,
750
00:45:24,966 --> 00:45:27,976
because the traditional Crow value places the women
751
00:45:28,176 --> 00:45:29,646
at a very high position.
752
00:45:35,056 --> 00:45:37,986
Pre-colonization, violence against Native women
753
00:45:38,186 --> 00:45:39,566
was not tolerated.
754
00:45:39,766 --> 00:45:43,076
Our communities, our tribes held perpetrators accountable,
755
00:45:43,276 --> 00:45:47,156
and in the very few instances when it did happen,
756
00:45:47,356 --> 00:45:49,746
it was addressed.
757
00:45:50,956 --> 00:45:53,996
Because women form the backbone of our communities,
758
00:45:54,196 --> 00:45:57,796
their safety forms the foundation for the safety
759
00:45:57,996 --> 00:46:00,086
of our communities.
760
00:46:01,336 --> 00:46:02,982
When we protect our Native women,
761
00:46:03,006 --> 00:46:05,556
we're able to protect our families.
762
00:46:05,756 --> 00:46:07,426
It extends out.
763
00:46:07,626 --> 00:46:10,646
We're able to see strong communities,
764
00:46:10,846 --> 00:46:13,306
strong nations.
765
00:46:14,766 --> 00:46:19,856
Success in all aspects of our community comes from the home
766
00:46:20,056 --> 00:46:23,076
and the home being a safe place.
767
00:46:23,276 --> 00:46:28,295
It's time that we go back to our traditional teachings that women are sacred,
768
00:46:28,296 --> 00:46:32,766
that violence does not have a place in our community.
769
00:46:37,496 --> 00:46:40,626
In order for us to have hope,
770
00:46:40,826 --> 00:46:45,796
we have to see a future that doesn't include...
771
00:46:47,676 --> 00:46:52,176
murdered and missing indigenous women and girls.
772
00:46:55,186 --> 00:46:58,686
I can't see that future yet.
773
00:47:04,776 --> 00:47:08,246
But these stories have to be told.
774
00:47:08,446 --> 00:47:13,406
These girls were incredibly bright...
775
00:47:14,156 --> 00:47:16,456
talented...
776
00:47:16,656 --> 00:47:20,716
and worthy of living,
777
00:47:20,916 --> 00:47:25,836
not because they were Native women...
778
00:47:26,466 --> 00:47:30,676
not because they were somebody's daughter,
779
00:47:30,876 --> 00:47:34,806
but simply because they were human beings.
780
00:47:35,006 --> 00:47:39,066
And we're all worthy of living, we're all worthy of a good life,
781
00:47:39,266 --> 00:47:41,736
because we're human.
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