We Are Resilient: An MMIW True Crime Podcast We Are Resilient

In October, 2010, 32 year old Sumi Gail Juan, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, disappeared without a trace. Her story, mirroring similarities with another Hoopa Valley woman, further highlights the prevalence and complexities of the MMIW crisis that is happening in Northern California. Sources:https://www.equatorinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Yurok-Tribe-Case-Study-English-FNL.pdfhttps://www.equatorinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Yurok-Tribe-Case-Study-English-FNL...

On October 20, 2020, one day before her 18th birthday, Jalajhia Finklea of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe was last seen getting into a rental car driven by a Florida man near her mother’s home in New Bedford, MA. She was never seen alive again.Sources: Missing Mass. Teen Jalajhia Finklea Was Pregnant: Police Report – NBC BostonPregnant teen, 18, found dead in Florida 1,400 miles from home after five weeks missing as 'kidnapper' shot by cops | The US Sun (the-sun.com)Autopsy: Mashpee teen w...

In 2017, the body of 21-year-old Ci’Lina Deloney was found on a Comanche Country Road in Oklahoma. Known to her family and friends as CiCi, her murder remains unsolved and her family struggles with getting CiCi’s story heard.Sources:Family seeks answers for Ci'Lina Deloney's death (kswo.com)Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation looking for leads in Comanche County cold case (okcfox.com)Mother seeks justice in daughter’s murder (kswo.com)Unsolved Homicide: Ci’Lina Teira Bell-Deloney – If you ...

Michelle Elbow Shield, age 26, went missing on September 27, 2023. It is believed she was in the Sioux Falls, SD area and was last seen.Michelle has light brown eyes and brown hair. She is 4' 10" and weighs approximately 100 pounds. Michelle also has tattoos, one is a butterfly on her left ankle, an infinity symbol on her left arm with the names Michelle and Cody Red Wing and a heart with devil horns behind her right ear. Michelle was last seen wearing a black, blue and gray sweater and black...

In April 2023, the body of 16-year-old Ruby Sky Montelongo was discovered in a vacant lot in Covelo, California. Her death came three weeks after the death of 20-year-old Round Valley Man. With the rates of Missing and Murdered Indigenous people skyrocketing in Northern California, Round Valley Indians Tribes have declared a state of emergency. Sources:California girl, 15, suspected of killing another teenager | AP News‘They took everything’: an Indigenous town rocked by the killings of young...

Esther Wolfe, a 25-year-old South Dakotan woman was shot and killed on February 21st 2024, in what news reports have called a public execution. Her story prior to her death had been one with filled unimaginable pain and overcoming the most harrowing of circumstances.Sources:https://www.blackhillsfox.com/2024/02/28/states-attorney-esther-wolfe-death-was-public-execution/?outputType=amphttps://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/2nd-man-arrested-in-connection-with-death-of-esther-wolfe/amp/https:/...