As an indigenous woman who was raised on my reservation, whose grandmother attended boarding school and who has survived domestic violence, I am so thankful to hear this podcast. I can’t thank you women enough for standing strong and tall and getting our stories out there. My children’s grandmother on their dads side has been missing for over a decade now and nobody is even looking for her. I’ve survived every form of abuse growing up on the rez and I attended a public school off the rez and had to endure the teachers there, being racist to me for being Native American. When I played sports for our Rez school, and we had to go 35 miles away to play, the crowd on the other teams side would shout “GO BACK TO THE REZ WHERE YOU DIRTY INDIANS BELONG!” whenever we were winning. It was awful.
Thank you for bringing our culture and unfortunately our statistics to light and hopefully ppl will wake up and start to see how big of a problem MMIW really is. It’s just sad that nobody else cares about our missing women and men.
