So, crazy living in the Bay Area and going up that way for the weekend I never knew so many tribes are so close by. I just hear about the casinos. I heard about reservations, but I do hear about them unless I look up something and stumble upon something. This is just so sad and scary. I don't understand why people would want to hurt native people. I think the state of California and the US government owe apology to people of Native ancestry for the oppression and torture for centuries and letting it continue and ignoring it. People of a certain age and contributed to the oppression of Native people and people have been in government for decades could have changed thing but didn't. Everyone has the right to live this is just horrible.
1st off my sincere condolences to all victims & their families mourning them. I am about to speak very blunt trigger warning I watched this in 1/1/24 after doing a search of women missing in Montana. A store while passing through had a missing woman from Montana that had gone fishing missing not long ago: she looked indigenous but I had no idea it was an issue in Montana & just searched missing women in Montana & this was found immediately. My heart goes out to this cause. As a Afro American woman in America, I find it weird that indigenous leaders and the community at large won’t openly say these women lives matter less to law enforcement because of race (not being Caucasian/White). If you won’t speak it then how do you expect it to change? The only group of folks that do when it occurs is African Americans. It’s really sad😮and kinda mind boggling because they seem to want to be seen as not like African Americans in terms of racism to such a degree they’re willing to sacrifice themselves. It’s no law that can change self respect, determination, and whatever isms incl loving an oppression system more than yourself; it’s like a battered woman saying enough! I guess it will continue to be tolerated ( this destruction of their female descendants ) until they’re not recognized as Indigenous anymore or died out👩🏽💻?’ I hope not.. But don’t see how not if they won’t be honest amongst themselves and say NO ( similar to BLM✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
My father was a Special Agent in the FBI in Northern Idaho in the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. One of his duties was investigating major crimes on the Kootenai and Nez Perce reservations. I know many law enforcement issues a spelled out in the treaties establishing the reservations, but I cannot imagine missing persons and kidnapping being omitted here. WHERE’S THE FBI?
Thank you for sharing. This has been an issue of interest for me for a long time yet only now, June '24, does this cross my newsfeed. Important to keep this issue in the public eye. Don't let it fade away. Though the involvement of indigenous women is unique, they are not the only ones. My guess is it happens frequently with indigenous people because they are an easy target. They have little resources to fight back. Human trafficking is a scourge in our society, fueled by drugs and money. Where does the money go? Political campaigns? Weapons of war? The layers of the onion continue to need to be peeled back.
The Attorney General of California is the exact example of little they actually know and care. He is touching the surface on an extremely dark topic. Look at Gabby Petito, Kacey Anthony 16:13 & Lacy Peterson, the entire country knew. He will not take action with that cookie cutter “apology”.
I have a grandchild that was taken and goven to his aunt and he is abused, the system does not check or follow up on children and they also get go rn to people who are on drugs and get away with it.
Thank you. It's important these stories are told. I like the holistic approach of the tribe to rehabilitation. Our indigenous Maori has the same holistic approach. Maori is 17% of the population, but are 55% of prisoners. It's not a surprising statistic sadly. There is also resistance from our government too in terms of the holistic approach Maori use to rehabilitate our own people. This is a colonised white mindeset. They don’t want to admit the punitive approach of the state is not reducing the recividism rates, and that this punitive approach is racially motivated and discriminatory to say the least. Additionally, they just don’t give a damn because it's indigenous people so who cares. It's a supremacy flawed mindset. My family live around the corner from the Sherman Indian Cemetery in Riverside. Evertime, I go to California, I go to the cemetery and take flowers for the children. I spend time and say a prayer for those poor children who never made it home. I feel a connection because the same treatment and intergenerational trauma the native americans have experienced, and are still experiencing, is the exact same treatment Maori are experiencing. Sending prayers and hearts to the children in this documentary who also didnt make it home ❤ 😢.
