Indigenous Women Keep Going Missing in Montana

[@VICENews]

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[@based344]

Aliens

[@jayfraser4785]

Thank you for reporting this. This is horrifying. I hope, to the high heavens, that things get sorted. Things can't stay as they are. Parts of this report brought me to tears.

[@johnnyc.3261]

Fucking great piece!

[@Bracero1990]

Thank you for helping and sharing Salina Not Afraids story

[@sandyhossman7771]

So sad, been going on for awhile.

[@44H44]

Because of the title people keep thinking this is only happening in Montana, let me clarify this is happening in all the US and in all of Canada to. Edit: yes I know people go missing all around the world but you guys need to research why this is specifically a native issue and why many native activists are calling it genocide im not going to explain it here because that's what the internet is for. I will say that these missing cases are not getting the coverage they should be getting and police should be trying a lot harder instead of dismissing some of the cases and blaming the victims. These families all over North America needs justice.

[@lindamaemullins5151]

😲😢😢😔🤨😡😡😡😡😡🤷‍♀️

[@mjohnson1741]

Yes, it's appalling. What's even more appalling is that majority of the people who go missing are people of color yet 60% of the coverage of missing persons are white. But we're not supposed to bring up race?

[@jinglebells3323]

Ya natives kidnap whites to. I mean that does happen this isn't orchestrated people ar fucked up

[@44H44]

@@mjohnson1741 yea well there isn't a lot of natives in Canada but they still make up an astonishing amount of missing persons cases while being less than 5 % of Canadas population

[@ItsNotRealLife]

Nobody thinks that

[@kevinmathewson4272]

"more likely to be raped and murdered than go to college" that line stopped me in my tracks. I had to pause the video to take that in.

[@kevinmathewson4272]

@@goldengriffon I'm not sure what you're driving at, but somehow I don't like the vibe I get from you. Those trailers and dilapidated houses don't look like "endless free money" to me, and "xenophobia" seems like a pretty white-centric way to describe the bitterness of American Indians. When you say oversight, whose oversight do you mean? White oversight? The natives have too much free time so we should raise the rents and open a few Starbucks to keep them busy? I don't want to jump the gun before I know what you're saying, but so far I don't like it. The video very clearly states that the problem is a lack of police investigation of homicides on reservations. Right at the start of the video they point out that half of all homicides of indigenous women in Montana are misclassified as deaths by exposure, suicide, etc. and never even investigated. And maybe American Indian communities would be less insular, and more willing to send their daughters and sons to college, if American Indian culture were shown more respect in broader American culture. Right now their culture only continues as long as people stay on the reservation. Asking young people to choose between getting an education and continuing their people's culture isn't a fair choice to impose on anyone.

[@kevinmathewson4272]

​@@goldengriffon the mild, paternalistic classism and racism I thought I smelled in your comment is common enough in America that if someone suspected me of it my response would be to commiserate and then clarify what I was saying.

[@flynn4838]

"by family members"......they forgot to put that fact.

[@Aaa-te7ei]

@@goldengriffon ok. now go ask THEM instead of hypothesizing

[@jcolterh]

The indigenous people are the ones doing this to indigenous women. Now let's see if this comment gets deleted too...

[@kenster8270]

In western Canada this is also a pretty rampant issue. Many cases remain unsolved.

[@MissMystica]

In Quebec, Canada it's the same. Our government doesn't care about them. They need to be more respected.

[@dirtypagan5793]

Where I used to live in Duncan on Vancouver Island the kidnapping rate was super high

[@SuzanneDeniseB]

@@pcoristi this.

[@Ergot59]

I heard of the theory it is a truck driver up here.

[@arrow5726]

@USA 2 MEXICO Not at all true... just not quite as extreme as USA

[@los7187]

6:49 she’s absolutely right. The last few weeks have definitely proved her right. Gabby Petito (May she Rest In Peace🕯😔) goes missing and we’ve had daily coverage for the past few weeks. I’m not saying it’s bad they constantly talking about her, I’m actually glad about that because it shows that with the right coverage the public Can help solve these cases. But I am angry that not enough is being done for other communities.

[@AlexZ-lc6nl]

Sadly, this Sounds about white…

[@MrTeknics]

@@AlexZ-lc6nl It is about money. I think it would be the same with a famous native tiktokker or ,,loved'' insta/yt star. The TV companies are interested in views and advertising fees. A famous person's death makes them more money than a normal person's death, because the attention is higher, people are more interested in the case, so there will be more views for the channel, which pushes up the channel's advertising price which is a s...load of money. Lot of whites die daily and there is no big case at all. Do not eat the propaganda, everything is about money. Just check out how much the BLM's founder made. While people were protesting on the streets, she bought nice houses on the money she made on that case.

[@AlexZ-lc6nl]

@@MrTeknics hi, i would consider that if it was true. she was not a famous "tik toker" or a blogger. she was actually a somewhat failed blogger and starting youtuber. a couple 100K does not qualify for "successful" in the social media world. I think it was because she was blonde and "all American" when we don't even know what that means but the assumptions that comes to mind issmall town, blonde, white person. which usually psychologically tends to associate everything else we think about that person as good. Honest, kind, etc. i think this case has everything to do with confirmation intrinsic bias. if she would of been black...people would of cared..but not with the magnitude she got.

[@MrTeknics]

@@AlexZ-lc6nl Yes, I get it. But on the other hand people could be emotionally more connected to the case, because somehow they knew her better as a person through youtube. And yes, it helped that she was a, loveable, nice, always smiling, kind girl with a free, happy life through camera that life most of the people idealize, consider perfect and didn't think that the person who smiles next to her will turn the lovestory to a tragedy. People knew her, liked her, worried about her, and triggered the media to do so. I think it doesn't mean that people don't feel sorry for other victims. They just don't know them that personally. Btw 178k subscriber is not bad at all I think. And to be honest, attention is not always a blessing. Peace

[@centerfold8]

Plus Gabby was a White woman with a social media following.

[@strutter9785]

No more missing sisters ✊✊✊ the tribes of southern Oregon stand with you ❤

[@lynnkey3700]

Ask the question WHAT ARE THE NATIVE TRIBES DOING TO FIND OUR MISSING SISTERS? NOTHING! IT TOOK PRESIDENT TRUMP TAKING NOTICE OF WHAT IS HAPPENING AND THIS IS WHY THEY ARE BEING LOOKED FOR NOW.

[@will6334]

@@lynnkey3700 thanks for pointing that out

[@quetzaltepiani1367]

Aztecs are with you!

[@MrAndrison6]

Yes ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 us indigenous descendants need to post more news for us to protect each other

[@collection6062]

i bet more males go missing but no one cares.

[@jlovelyy]

What’s crazy is that if families start taking the law in their own hands they’ll go to jail but their daughters blatant murders aren’t even being investigated! This is horrible!!

[@fabolousjada5070]

Just like Cain valezquez

[@johnramos8703]

@@YuTube_Usernamethere is a great many tribes residing around u.s the generalization you made is wildly out of proportion and comes off like psy ops which off course the people reading your comments never thought of looking of for themselves therefore accepting your wrong view on the topic. Y’all are transparent

[@mimimimi-wh4qf]

I live in Canada, near the highway of tears. This is a severe problem here in Canada. Praying for our neighbors 🙏 ❤

[@jaxtrax7173]

Why??

[@skater101202303]

@@jaxtrax7173 They’re often overlooked by the government here in Canada, people claim it’s an issue within their communities and people try to push it aside because they don’t want to try to help or look into the issue. It’s really sickening :(

[@MrMAC8964]

@@skater101202303 i live here to , the gov gives them EVERYTHING ! But a they fall victim to drugs and alcohol. Most reservs are doing much better in town ,but smaller communities in the north`s children keep running away (family abuse) and heading to the city ... Not a good thing to do. So dont give me the hard done thang , it doesnt help to focus on whos to blame .

[@MrMAC8964]

@@skater101202303 ps the states are far different.

[@gduck77will20]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmW4eWeopdF7hLM

[@BIBBLE.is.life1]

I am a 12 year old Native American girl and I had a talk about this and to never leave my dads side and I am scared

[@Handz4NatureProject]

Stay close to family. This needs to be studied. There's a reason. I'm praying 🙏

[@Loi-o2i]

you are on line at 12?!

[@JuliaH-c6f]

​@@Loi-o2iWhy are you surprised?!

[@anneN0221]

Sweet girl. Never talk to anyone online NEVER. There is so much evil out there on tge internet. Even we can't describe it in enough strong words. Just never befriend anyone anywhere tgat you mom dad or older relative does not know. I sounds scary, but it's true especially for indigenous women and girls. Be safe.

[@NeighborhoodBasketCase]

Indigenous women are going missing everywhere, it's tragic that these women are often overlooked because they're people that deserve justice just like everyone else . My heart breaks for these girls 💔

[@rottenrobbie8466]

May I ask if you care to know the fact that the Second Amendment in the USA was historically put in place in American Constitution, mainly to encourage slaughtering indigenous Native American people, in order to take over their homeland. Moreover, the hidden mega genocide of indigenous Native Americans, and their population in Continents of America 500 yrs ago was around 15 millions, while European population in Europe was around 25 millions. Today, Native Americans population at 15 million, while European population, in Continents of America + Europe, is a staggering 'ONE BILLION'! For instance, 200 years ago here in the USA, around 3 million Germans came, and now there are 65 millions German-Americans; while 150 years ago, around 2 millions Irish came, and now there are 45 million Irish-Americans. While 500 years ago there were estimated to be 5 to 6 millions indigenous Native Americans in the USA, before Christopher Columbus arrived, today there are only around 2 million indigenous Native Americans survived. Imagine this scenario, if Native American people cross the Atlantic, invade and Colonize Europe, and slaughter most Europeans, and put the remaining populations in tiny reservations, for 500 long years. How would Europeans feel about it? Think about it. All they need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for generations. Besides, indigenous Native Americans in Colonized lands of Anglo British, Spaniard and others are more of the same. Kill the indigenous Natives and whoever is left, marginalize them and create artificial poverty, once that poverty becomes crime and drinking, the media points to the poor and blames them to continue to stigmatize the 'other' community, scumbags, etc. Amazing fact that Indigenous Natives had built such great civilizations as Mayan, Inca and Aztec without outside help, and all from the scratch, and all on their own, since they had been cut off from the rest of the world for ten of thousand of years. In other words, they actually are great and proud people. Imagine what it would be like today if Native Americans had possessed some sort of nuclear weapons to defend themselves, and their beloved motherlands from invaders Colonizers? The answer is they would still have their own beloved motherlands, plus their population comparable to that of European population. In my humble opinion, it's about time to decolonize the Colonized lands, and return it to rightful owners Native American people. Remember, notorious global cardinal crimes the West has committed, and benefited a great deals, such as Slavery & Colonialism had long been over, why on earth is this another notorious Colonization still lingering on, may I ask? A website with 2 million views says it all at, blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=820652

[@tacthom]

I read that this is happening in Canada too.

[@NeighborhoodBasketCase]

@@tacthom yeah :( and australia too

[@Lroselovely88]

Thank you! They call it an epidemic because this is made in the US, but this is a pandemic due to its international nature. Heartbreaking and we DO have to do what we can DO. ❤️

[@tacthom]

@Chris Davis you're on to something....that same awareness campaign idea could be used here too. I feel outraged to learn that this is happening to Native women in America, Canada and Australia. Native women's lives matter would actually be a good idea to raise awareness.

[@Jvksiew]

Why aren't more people know this? This is horrendous.

[@sonyaweinreis3658]

Cuz she's native American! These women are killed all the time and noone (white people) care. This is wrong

[@marcusp905]

I watched a program about this 5 years ago! Shocking

[@donovansolis8889]

It’s cuz the media doesn’t care about them only about making sure the dems win

[@aus-li]

@@sonyaweinreis3658 I knew about this for a while now. This is about domestic issues within the reservation! Don’t bring up white people every time something happens to minorities.

[@RichardDOwens]

They do because of this video

[@theofficialwag]

My girlfriend is indigenous from west Canada (Alberta) and the stories she told me were echoing through my head as I watched this. It's true how scary the situation is. When I visited her, and we used to go on walks she even asked me to walk on the inside of pedestrian walkways, out of the fear someone might snatch her up from a car. These shouldn't be the things she should be worried about in her own homeland. I as a European had no idea how bad it is, even in Canada. More people need to be aware of this, way more. There needs to be a real change for the indigenous girls and women of their communities. Maybe trackers they can be given and enabled whenever they feel it is necessary (phones might get tossed by the kidnapping person), that also alert authorities in close range right away. We have something like that for the elderly here in case they fall and hurt themselves. An ambulance is on the way for them within minutes. Something like this could be a start.

[@haleyguthrie3113]

What was her Tribe? I'm the PNW and we have cousin tribes up that way. And ya...we battle these issues on reservations. Victimized by our own people as well.

[@foxhound9285]

I read awhile back that indigenous females in Canada are highly preferred on the black market.

[@AablaLaabadi]

@@foxhound9285 this is fucked up

[@wyndella7212]

I believe government is behind this.

[@348Tobico]

I think your idea about trackers is something I would do if I was indigenous. They have the tiny trackers that can be injected or surgically implanted in deep muscle. I would do anything to save my daughters from murder and abduction. A tribe could make mass purchase of the trackers and offer them for little or no cost to their members. Something has to be done.

[@nancyc5922]

Joyce Echaquan was a 37-year-old Atikamekw woman who died on September 28, 2020 in the Centre hospitalier de Lanaudière in Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec. Before her death, she recorded a Facebook Live video that showed her screaming in distress and healthcare workers abusing her.

[@timothygenaw2199]

Having someone missing has got to be the one of the worst forms of torture. You'll spend every waking moment of your life wondering about it.

[@patriciabrisley8893]

I am so sorrowed to hear you are going through this.

[@drd6893]

Lakota woman here, our sisters have been going missing for decades. Why doesn’t everyone know about this! My people have been through enough

[@MasterBlaster-nz3uv]

Join the club

[@imfrenchtoast]

@Da Lat what's wrong with you?

[@imfrenchtoast]

@@sierrapeaks8838 Ok that’s horrible but don’t bring that up to take away from what’s happening to the native community. Clearly their community is being targeted, are they not supposed to feel horrified ???

[@polifonyann]

Does anyone in your nation have a suspicion who's doing it. Is it people coming into the reservations or neighborhoods? Or is it males in the culture? Like do you know?

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

You need live-streaming bodycams on your women they can turn on and it immediately starts to stream to the cloud. Then there'd be another victim, but, there'd be evidence, and it might stop. Another solution, is you need money into *preventing* these issues. People are asking for FBI to help, for all you know they are the ones doing it! And actions are fueled by belief and convenience and emotion. I think fervent hierarchy is the problem, its a global problem not just here.

[@abbyguitron6530]

The movie Wind River is a great movie to see what indenginous people go through when a woman goes missing

[@BUKWulfSh0t]

Netflix or hulu?

[@abbyguitron6530]

@@BUKWulfSh0t neither sorry

[@garyharnish2395]

Amazon, I think

[@piratesmurf4251]

@@garyharnish2395 Yes its on Amazon Prime u can Rent it or $3.99 or buy it for $ 5

[@alatus7242]

And then Taylor Sheridan again included this subject in the last season of Yellowstone where they went on to lure and trap one such killer.

[@ammebee16]

THIS IS HAPPENING ALL OVER CONTINENTAL AMERICA …. HELP OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN💔✋🏽✋🏾✋🏼💔

[@samiyam0077]

it is happening all over the world. everywhere, it is not just one continent.

[@lucanidae100]

Just keep them away from men?

[@agnidas5816]

it happens to men as well...

[@Zinkronicedemo]

@@lucanidae100 White men

[@Queendora-jc9gy]

​@@ZinkronicedemoWhite men rules the world.

[@sharr630]

At first glance it sounds like someone is using Montana Native lands as a feeder for a sex trafficking ring...

[@BecauseIamHere]

I wouldn't doubt it... Sick bastards! I wish I could do more to make a change...

[@tpelton]

if they are finding bodies, they aren't being trafficked.

[@sharr630]

@@tpelton Not everyone goes willingly into slavery...

[@danmiller2940]

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Sadly, the prison time given to child predators is shockingly short.

[@285runt]

I know someone that was kidnapped and trafficked. She was able to escape, but she deals addiction and disassociative disorder. They kept her on heroin

[@sm3296]

I lost my son, I had closure and was able to grieve. I’m so sorry for all these families who have loved ones disappear and worse yet have no assistance to find them or find what happened to them. Every person is worth the highest level of investigation. I’m saddened for these families.

[@Elitecommando501]

Hes in a better place. Its not over in this life. How old was he?

[@dr.Yazeed.galabe]

🙏🏿

[@logmang7888]

I’m so sorry they happened to him my heart goes out to you and your son from canada

[@David-ys4xb]

Was he murdered?

[@SlurryNoises]

My condolences 🙏 May your son rest in peace and I'm sorry for your loss. Sending lots of hugs your way

[@virago_queen]

This is heartbreaking. I'm so sorry for the loss of your mothers, daughters, aunts, nieces, and sisters.

[@supastar25]

It's so sad...it's like they're ignored and not taken serious enough to thoroughly investigate most of these disappearances.

[@ThingsILikke]

Cuz there are no men around!!!

[@virago_queen]

@@ThingsILikke where are the men?

[@ThingsILikke]

@@virago_queen Not on the reservation by the looks of jt

[@batflash-450gaming5]

I’m half Blackfoot and Cherokee Indian and this breaks my heart

[@lilmockme8821]

I also blame the lack of holding the medical examiner accountable

[@camplo777]

Theyre in on it

[@denisewehling649]

rogue authorities?

[@MajorMosh710]

It's not just in Montana, its happening all over the continent sadly 😔

[@saraserrano2311]

Sadly your right, in Mexico and Central America women go missing or killed all the time 😢

[@gittenielsen95]

@@saraserrano2311 Canada

[@kamo808]

Henhawk LOL

[@MajorMosh710]

@@kamo808 I'd make a joke about you but I'm sure your whole life is one.

[@melissaweigh4508]

@@MajorMosh710 I'm sorry for the disrespect of the name of ur loved one. It was hurtful and unnecessary. I'm sorry.

[@GeorgeOforiAtta]

My heart goes to the Native American community. (If American Indian is preferable then take my sincere apologies as genuine for saying Native American earlier.). I can't and won't please everyone.

[@localboi2023]

Me too

[@skynoceros_]

The trail of tears never ended, it just evolved.

[@mrarrow3685]

Got their asses whooped by our American ancestors. 🇺🇸 🦅 💪

[@hebrewwolf6540]

hmm ok npc

[@oussyach8216]

@@mrarrow3685 You meant European ancestors? American culture is just a mixture of European cultures. Smh

[@realpqleur]

"ONE IS TOO DAMN MANY!"

[@patriciabrisley8893]

My deepest condolences to those who have lost a loved one. Praying for those missing to this day

[@tonysoviet3692]

The movie Wind River perfectly explains this. Indian reservations receive almost no federal supports in terms of police forces and security. It's horrifying.

[@b0leg23]

So they took their land, placed them in a little shithole, and left them to die without resources and security? Some american justice...

[@shockleyjulia7126]

Sure does. They are invisible.

[@TheDemsk]

Shhh. Defund the police, remember?

[@tonysoviet3692]

@@TheDemsk absolutely, police budgets are severely unequal. You got police helis flying almost 24/7 in LA while BIA barely has enough to buy patrol cars.

[@TheDemsk]

@@tonysoviet3692 L.A. is a massive city with unending crime and more taxpayers. Of course they have more funding for their police departments. Defunding the police is not the solution.

[@maxmilli_EsLos]

Crazy cuz the killer is probably there with them pretending to help search!

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

Most are involved in cyber crime through coercion, threats & insults via social media or telecommunication in general. This is why sobriety is so important as you CAN'T have disorders as such once exercised & so on.

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

Or *a* guilty party indirectly related.

[@krisfrazier8159]

2:17 it’s him

[@StevenMichaelCunningham]

@@krisfrazier8159 in part.

[@rachelletyson364]

OMFG THANK YOU!! SEEMS LIKE PEOPLE ARE GETTING SMARTER. THEY'RE KIDNAPPING THESE WOMEN TO GET THEIR LAND AGAIN.

[@petroshagos6149]

My heart goes out to the indigenous tribal nations. Justice for all indigenous!!!✊🏽

[@horacegreeley3092]

American Indians.

[@ghosturiel]

Justice for all...no more, no less

[@curtislavallee8444]

@@horacegreeley3092 not indians first nations,they where looking for india thats how they got the name indians.

[@comingsoon2850]

GOD would respond better if they stopped praying to birds trees buffalo and dirt.🤞🏾

[@curtislavallee8444]

@@comingsoon2850 shaddup your dirt smh.

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

I always wonder why the FBI puts tremendous resources into some cases while ignoring so many others?

[@seckford7940]

Hmm I was thinking the same thing smh😪 I pray 🙏 we get it together ❤

[@krebgurfson5732]

because Native Reservations are not the USA?

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

@@krebgurfson5732 Reservations are federal lands.

[@meb777]

How is an 18 year old death determined "unknown"!

[@abby-a]

That's some b.s. and I bet some of these ppl know who doing it but aren't speaking out about it

[@unemployedingreenland9358]

Because she’s not white

[@melissaweigh4508]

Why does it matter that she is native or not? Why does it matter if she was a wild child ? She's a human being and that makes her life just as valuable as someone else's! That made me so damn mad I can only imagine how there families felt! Why don't the fbi etc get more involved here?

[@romankushniriuk1504]

Well sometimes people die and the decomposition degrades the ability to do test. If some one dies outside during a hot summer, within 72 hours a ton of evidence is lost There also might be wildlife with disturbed the body and caused post mortem injuries. Sadly most Jane and John Does have less thorough investigations than people who are IDed

[@gholland5840]

@@melissaweigh4508 It matters because it changes the authority of who investigates - tribal police vs county sheriff vs city vs federal.

[@johnnyc.3261]

Please support this and get loud. It’s not “their” problem, these are your friends/neighbors/EQUALS! I’m mixed Native/AngloEuropean and these are Americans who deserve to be respected not targeted. This really sucks that people don’t see that there’s not 7 degrees of separation, more like 1. Love and respect for anyone dealing with this crazy country.

[@StokedPhilosophy]

Actions speak louder than words

[@margwagartha1726]

@Sami Almuntasr what is your problem?

[@margwagartha1726]

@Sami Almuntasr first off I’m not liberal. Second of all this is a story of a young dead girl and you come in and leave a comment “NoT My FrIeNd”. People like you have no room on this planet.

[@margwagartha1726]

@Sami Almuntasr you are sooooo beyond brainwashed and wrong.

@@StokedPhilosophy this is action

[@TrudyTsoFine]

Same in Shiprock, NM. It's scary how unprotected us Indigenous women and children are.

[@sonyaweinreis3658]

I believe you very much

[@TrudyTsoFine]

@P Ugslee Oh thanks for your amazing insight.

[@hjalmarh.4046]

@@TrudyTsoFine well how do you expect the goverment to specifically focus on the safety of indigenous women and children? Not even trying to fight here, sincerely wondering how that would work

[@donovansolis8889]

2nd amendment man that’s why we have it so we can protect ourselves

[@aus-li]

@@TrudyTsoFine Blame your own communities and lack of parenting? These reservations are corrupt and disorganized, it’s ridiculous how nothing is being done about this.

[@haleyguthrie3113]

"AJ Not-Afraid"....has to be the most epic of native name EVER.

[@louiesanchez4772]

This is crazy, I’m showing this to my 4 daughters. Native Nation.

[@angelaefferson4409]

Every body who missing isn't missing, the young lady got tired of living on a reservation and rolled out

[@wildmike85]

@@angelaefferson4409 well let's hope nothing like this happens to you or anyone you love because it seems like the only way you can understand any of this is if it happens to you. Or maybe you're the type of person that hides the things your family members do, which would make sense why you posted that comment.

[@lukejposadas]

Sanchez is a Hispanic name, NOT NATIVE AMERICAN!

[@kel5944]

@@lukejposadas so? They don’t have to be 100% native to be native.

[@lustthenlovethendivorce8900]

Ive never met an Indian who wasnt molested by there drunk uncle. Am i rite? Ask the drunkle

[@Sonny1065LV]

Once again another glaring problem in america not being discussed enough, how can all these resources be available but not utilized? 26% that's just insane!!!!

[@theend9596]

its not only in America its also in Canada and not enough is being done about it

[@Sonny1065LV]

@@theend9596 Agreed I use to work at McGill U in Montreal and heard many stories from the indigenous community about missing young women. It's just terrible, also the way they are treated in the big cities is horrible.

[@aus-li]

@@Sonny1065LV How are they treated in big cities? You mean the racism?

[@longnuts1969]

Cause they’re only available to a select group of people ,we know this at this point

[@themanwithnonamecalledwyat7575]

Those Resources are being defunded lol good luck getting help now. reservations need to get it together because the states are not anytime soon.

[@johnpatrickfay5288]

This is a hard watch, does not take intelligence to see what is going on. My thoughts are with all families, who have lost their children, Much love and many condolences from Ireland.

[@oOKitty86Oo]

Yeah it doesn't get enough attention here in the states. It breaks my heart as a Mexican American. The Natives continue to be cheated. Its something thats bothered me even when I was a little girl. When I was about 10, I donated most of my toys to a local Indian tribe, when I learned many of them don't even have one toy. I still want to give back somehow, I'm looking into sustainability and environmental work. So maybe I can start there. These people deserve so much better than this.

[@greddytalon]

Very well said brother. My heart also goes out to these girls and their families.

[@horacegreeley3092]

@@oOKitty86Oo One place to start is to stop using racist language like "native" and indigenous". American Indian is the correct vernacular.

[@codijo-myalaskandog122]

This is so very DISTURBING! I live next door (Wyoming) & I hadn't even heard of this?

[@OOTurok]

@@horacegreeley3092 If you really want to use correct vernacular... then use the name of the tribe the people belong to. They were mislabeled, Indians, because Columbus thought the Americas were the East Indies. That being said... "native" & "indigenous", are NOT racist words, so spare us your SJW wokism.

[@robertlitsenberger9527]

Problem 1: A study in Canada about the missing native women showed that the VAST majority of the disappearances /murders were perpetrated by native people... and those native perpetrators we also getting lighter prison sentences.... because they were native. Problem 2: Most of this is happening on Tribal lands... where the police have no jurisdiction and the tribal police do not want the national police involved and in many cases will stonewall the U.S. police department. Problem 3: Many of these missing women are not reported in a timely way. Statistics show that the first 72hrs is the MOST important time period to likely fid the missing. Problem 4: The tacit suggestion is that this is somehow a racial issue, when we KNOW FOR A FACT that most crimes (literally most crimes) are intra-racial not inter-racial. But the inability to acknowledge this while navel gazing outward does a disservice to the missing women and the ability to even correctly diagnose the systemic problems inside the communities.

[@andreawheatley5528]

Are you freaking kidding me? Where did you get these facts ?

[@myvt5360]

This is sick, and messed up, that you hear nothing about this on national news.

[@skibootdier9488]

It's not a national problem.. If it were a white woman, it would be considered a national emergency.

[@stephendahl1594]

@@skibootdier9488, I think this is a national emergency. It doesn't get media coverage because they don't care. It doesn't fit there narrative. Epstein Island was a real thing, run by wealthy elite pedophiles.

[@paulkenneally789]

@Andrea Scipio me too,l had no idea. This is a hard watch. Condolences to the families and supporters.

[@horacegreeley3092]

@@skibootdier9488 So you're saying that the leftist national media are racist? I agree.

[@RadagastBrown420]

@@horacegreeley3092 trolls always going to troll.

[@SuzanneDeniseB]

This should concern EVERYONE. It is unacceptable!

[@aus-li]

The solution is better parenting and neighborhood watch groups. But I do agree, there needs to be assistance from the federal government as well.

[@aus-li]

@MMAbadboy Very true, it doesn't. I only knew about it by doing the research myself many months ago. There was even some podcast I listened to based in New Mexico, talking about the on-going issue, and how nobody really gets involved or helps.

[@chris_1031]

Don’t look at Canada :)

[@rich2583]

@MMAbadboy lol vice is mainstream

[@Jjjbbb5678]

@@aus-li they have their own land and laws, and they live that on their own accord. This is the tribal people fault for bad supervision and failure to cooperate with authorities. Why would the govmt assign agents to a place where they cant do anything?

[@shannonjackson464]

same thing is happening here in ALASKA too. these cases must be connected.

[@OAlem]

@Daniel Smith You sound exactly like a flat earther, publically demanding that other people do your research for you. Is your Google-finger broken? They are at higher risk for all crime. You want to know the exact reasons? I'm an anthropologist from Alaska so I already know all the reasons. Don't come back until you've done your homework.

[@OAlem]

Indigenous females.The highest-risk demographic in ALL the Americas. Alaska doesn't have reservations but the women are still very often the victims. EDIT: Sorry, there is one reservation in AK but most don't live there.

[@jacqueslee2592]

Because the US Government is genociding the indigenous. If there are no women left, there are no more future generations. US policy has been to exterminate indigenous and erase their history in fear that they may regain numbers and reclaim the stolen land.

[@jacqueslee2592]

@@OAlem Reservations are extermination camps

[@OAlem]

@@jacqueslee2592 Not in Alaska. In Alaska, Native Americans have their own free hospitals and health care system, including optical and dental. They don't even live on a reservation.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

What a strong , determined, articulate, energized, skilled, very admirable, advocate leader woman. Blessings to help improve the situations for MMIW and their families. Filmakers: Thanks for and very effective to include and feature the families, in their own heartache spirit.

[@dirtroadking4x424]

Don't forget the missing woman in Yakima toppenish wapato area

[@1979diazavenue]

I was gonna say the same thing.

[@heyjessie884]

😩

[@MiVidaBellisima]

I never heard of this problem and I lived there many years 😢 it just shows how quiet America is keeping this problem!

[@jasonl3185]

Start carrying pocket pistols im not even joking if that was my daughter I would have given her one I rather be in trouble than her dead!!!! Someone close knows your people!!!!! Possible police!!!! I feel in my spirit if not them Someone that knows these beautiful women/girls

[@erickrishel694]

Grimey area's

[@takineko]

My friend told me back in the 80s it was normal to get children with the consent of their parents, and just adopt them totally off the books. But then she sited someone doing it while the parents were drunk and passed out. Sounded like abduction to me.

[@DiegoGarcia-zt4ne]

Thtas insanely fucked up

[@jcolterh]

Why would they be passed out drunk with no one to watch the child? Sounds like the kid was taken away because of their drunkenness and inability to care for a child.

[@mommyiianaxoxo8342]

@@jcolterh learn ur history, there was residential schooling that they also had to deal with. Very traumatic .

[@rhettlover1]

@@jcolterh Pretty bigoted comments you've posted here. A child going into foster care is not at all the same as a child being adopted into another family.

[@greenstreet5287]

reminds me of the movie "Wind River" from 2017 starring jeremy renner. very good movie that points out how little these authorities look for missing native women

[@cinowhite9355]

Thats what the movie was based on....

[@lisagleeson893]

I just watched this.

[@FoxyNinetails]

I still think about that movie every other month since it's premier. It's heartbreaking. It's horrifying that these people are targeted for violence without so much as a thought by mostly white men (of all walks of life, it's not just obvious low life creeps but also often unassuming 'normal' everyday men that could be your brother or father). Predators know they can get away with their crimes against vulnerable women, so they often do, and barely anyone raises a fuss. Racism, sexism, and opportunism is a very bad mix in rapists and killers. It gives them all sorts of reasons to do damn despicable things, things that get covered up easily. Guys and gals, never victim blame. Support victims, point out any isms whenever you can, especially in your friends and family and most importantly believe people that tell you they've or their loved ones were raped. Believe people if they feel fearful for their safety, especially if they point out individuals that exhibit scummy behavior even if those individuals are teachers and police or that person you knew in highschool and thought was pretty cool- because guess what? Anyone can be a garbage human being. Anyone. Stay safe out there.

[@tiffanyyoung9671]

Its because the police dont have jurisdiction. Natives who live on native van its literally a separate nation. Tribal cops cant search off the reservation and state cops cant search on the reservation to get a starting point and clues

[@blyat4024]

It's mainly because of lack of jurisdiction, ironically a consequence of the Government trying to give indigenious people more independence. Though i am impressed the FBI inst more involved in these cases, probably incompetence and apathy combined

[@HarleyRunner]

this is hard to watch. many prayers for our sisters.

[@tarah.1648]

Allies right behind you praying ❤ it's not okay

[@AutumnalSunests]

How much longer does this have to keep happening before something is really done about it, it seems like they are dismissed as if they are worthless, its disgraceful and heart breaking.

[@aeacan2350]

That's exactly what is happening. Don't let it happen. Keep talking about justice for all. Keep reminding people that what happened to the indigenous people of First Nations was unjust & needs to be rectified asap.

[@-John-Doe-]

@@aeacan2350 So what do you suggest? The United States nullify their sovereignty and take it over?

[@orchidtrust2543]

@@-John-Doe- Sorry but we don't have real sovereignty and ignorant people just need to educate themselves on how the system works as far as Natives and reservations are concerned. We can't independently arrest and prosecute people for crimes, especially federal crimes, because the federal government will not let us. We are underfunded and provided too little resources by the federal government. We cannot control commerce on our own reservations. The CDC and state department of health and human services refuses to share important epidemiological data with tribal governments to aid the control of pandemics and other communicable diseases. It's not sovereignty if you aren't allowed do those things. So I'd suggest first giving tribes actual sovereignty so we can improve things, considering the gross negligence and failure of the federal government to do so.

[@memezoffuckery3207]

We have all these military assets sent over seas, to patrol what’s going on in the Middle East, but not enough to patrol these small reservation areas? Looks like it’s time to take matters into our own hands and find the rapist ring.

[@AutumnalSunests]

@@memezoffuckery3207 Totally agree

[@bryce9100]

They might need foreign detectives for better transparency

[@mariehenriksen67]

Just what they need... Europeans can't even take care of their own and UN soldiers have committed so many crimes in various countries it's ridiculous.

[@mariehenriksen67]

@S N Y D E R its pretty damn clear what I said.

[@Alex-mc5yn]

Maybe detectives from other states? I don't really think foreign detectives would be knowledgeable enough on local specifics.

[@haratiiaswegobandi746]

Tribal police often overlook these issues due to family ties, I live on a reservation, I know first hand.

[@keeganhalton9406]

I’m from billings and I remember when Selena went missing. there were some weird circumstances about the whole thing and quite a bit of ppl had uneasy feelings about. there were dogs, drones, tons of ppl searching for her and they somehow missed her?! idk but this is a very concerning issues taking place in Montana.

[@ezav420]

missing 411

[@DancingDevil89]

Was she found?

[@wakeupsheepleNWOREAL]

@@DancingDevil89 found in snow died from hypothermia. She tried walk to town.

[@DancingDevil89]

@@wakeupsheepleNWOREAL that's so sad. I read the same thing online, but her family thinks that something else happened as well.

[@wakeupsheepleNWOREAL]

@@DancingDevil89 I can sympathise. No one wants to believe a young person can die like that. Too tragic and sad.

[@chumajamesnxele106]

Same situation happening in Australia with the Aboriginals, I ain't pointing fingers but...government definitely knows something.

[@kathryncarter6143]

:(

[@evaneichenberger845]

The Australian govt is openly trying to kill them off to me

[@pizzaburger9928]

They are probably targeting melanated peoples. For what reason? Maybe they know something about us that we dont know... 🤔

[@briandavis1692]

She was sadly found dead on January 23rd, cause being hypothermia :(

[@Karbear9]

Poor baby

[@emhu2594]

If she truly died of hypothermia, we really need to talk about the real problem here...all of them were drunk. If there were alcohol addiction treatment places accessible from reservations, a lot of these problems would disappear.

[@OneGuyIKnow]

@@emhu2594 Thats the best case scenario. Worst case, is that theres an active intentional threat causing this, perhaps from Organized crime, or human traffiking rings

[@peachy6396]

My your so gullible. Autopsy report is what ever the authorities want them to say. My dad was murdered yet says alcoholism wtf. Prayers for your stupidity of authorities stupidity.

[@kaseylee1152]

My old mans friend passed away the same way on the crows reservation 4 years ago.

[@Sommersole86]

This is heartbreaking. Stay strong Inuit people

[@Amanda_1985]

This is so tragic, me being a proud indigenous woman. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of these women

[@Kazilikaya]

You gotta stand up and fight for the rights of your people and work tirelessly to put a stop to this.

[@Bonaboo]

@@Kazilikaya maybe we should stop putting all the burden on the people who all already exhausted from fighting their oppression, and take some action ourselves. Maybe white men should stop fucking killing women, too.

[@laurajamesness]

I had no idea this was going on. If it’s ok I’d like to contact 48 hours, 20/20 and 60 minutes. The country needs to know about this.

[@heartstrings7814]

Do it Laura. If you have the heart, time and passion to help, please do what your inner voice is calling you to do. Anything is better than nothing. Thank you.

[@Fatima-rz9vt]

Do what you can, anything helps

[@garysmith8405]

MEDIA WONT HELP THEY ARE THE PROBLEM

[@ralphbernhard1757]

From the "Trail of Tears" to trails of tears. The minute they were deported from their fertile homelands, and dumped onto a barren wildland, indigenous peoples lost their identities.

[@charlesmartel342]

Yeah... I think you have your tribes confused. The Cherokee were hundreds of miles from here. This is the homeland of the Crow...well that is after the Cheyenne and Sioux ran them out of their territories. But, your implying Montana as infertile seems odd, as well as...inaccurate, when white Farmers and Ranchers have made use of that land.. Sorry you can not blame Whitey for this one.

[@ralphbernhard1757]

@@charlesmartel342 My comment is about *all* the indigenous people all over the world. The whites who came in *the Big Replacement* came *voluntarily, as part of an organized agenda.* The "manifest destiny"-mentality. A point you seem to have missed. Oh, so you're saying that if a person with a "white rancher"-background is deported to a tropical jungle, with no resources, and the logistics/finances of "an agenda", that he will become automatically successful?

[@charlesmartel342]

@@franciscoacevedo3036 No, we do not. We are a large monolithic group . There must be about 70 million of us nd we all think alike. You racist.

[@boepaynepill318]

Why should black people care they don't care when something happens to black women.

[@melancholygirl840]

My granddaughter is her cousin. I never met Savannah but i sure can tell you she became everyone's sister, daughter and friend!

[@BehdinAzadih-hh7rj]

This gives me an incredible rage and horror in my heart. I cannot believe how we can let this happen, my goodness what are we?

[@BehdinAzadih-hh7rj]

@@pamelamartin8464 Here it goes! Did you feel personally effected by my comment? If so then you are definitely part of the problem, and look I don’t need you checking for me.

[@TheAvkdutch]

We are Americans, you know " the greatest country in the world".

[@BehdinAzadih-hh7rj]

@@TheAvkdutch I mean’t as a human species because it’s happening in a lot of places where Native Americans reside.

[@keisi1574]

@@pamelamartin8464 Your mom told you there would always be one very creepy person in every group you'd ever be in...but you can never find 'em.

[@boepaynepill318]

Why should black people care they don't care when something happens to black women.

[@jrock8033]

Note the absence of indigenous men interviewed on what they're going to do about this problem.

[@JohnnyBot71]

how do you know they aren't killing them?

[@billywallis4633]

So true

[@peachesp7409]

Exactly. The drug and alcohol problem is huge in that community and this video didn't even touch on who they suspect could be the perpetrators.

[@daniela.m.d7655]

Trump pas a bill on Look for it

[@daniela.m.d7655]

@@allgoo1990 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oZ6XeGh3asmqf8U

[@Darthbeeds]

Im first nations and my grandmother was murdered as well . I never knew her and i hope they all get solved.

[@heartofdixie1031]

@Lil Beedz so sorry about your grandmother. Many blessings to you

[@andrayayazzie8495]

There still no justice even if the killer is found. My nephew was brutally murdered and his killer only got 6 years with time served its only 3 years a killer is gonna serve.

[@maxwellstudio19]

I’ve always thought Joe Kenda should investigate this....it’s in multiple states that this is happening. He’s solved over 400 cases. Call Kenda

[@peakey1651]

Yea he's very good

[@gxoney9163]

I just saw my auntie the first picture when they showed missing Freda knowsHisGun it’s been 5 years... her kids miss her everyday I feel bad for them because I still have my mom with me. I pray everyday she comes back

[@ang3licfire843]

Love you so sorry ❤️

[@gailcarey3597]

Lord, Jesus, Freda is greatly missed. If it is Your will, please, return her to her family. Expose the perpetrators and bring them to justice. End the insults of misinformation. Guide, give strength, and wisdom to those who are searching. Raise up another leader in Washington who will with determination take on this terrible epidemic as a mission.

[@laurenjackson2810]

This is so terrible... my heart aches for the Native American community. Wow.

[@kevinbuda7087]

She died of exposer after a party. Walked into a field without proper attire. 16 years old. Parenting is non existent. No foul play.

[@laurenjackson2810]

@@kevinbuda7087 Who died of exposure? What is proper field attire? This video talked about a widespread issue of multiple women going missing...

[@kevinbuda7087]

@@laurenjackson2810 her name was Selena Not Afraid. Did you not Google her story? Her sister hung herself at eleven years old. Her brother was shot and killed by billings police. There is a problem. And argueing with me is not going to solve it. There are predators preying on these girls guaranteed. Targeting them. In Missoula I asked what this young crow woman at the stadium was presenting behind her table. I was shocked as at every pow wow I go to there does not seem to be any hint of a problem this video speaks of. Why not? The tribes need to become aware and make this known at the pow wows. Sweeping it under the rug doesn't work. Tribes can point the fingers as to who is suspect.Being a good silent Indian has got to stop! I took her literature in quantity and spread pamphlets and magnet stickers around to towns on my way home ,deeply disturbed by what is finally becoming news. Selena was 16 and unaccompanied. There is a problem. Our children and women everywhere need to be protected. Education is the key.

[@ObloccfrOmTheTre4383]

The fact that this isn’t huge news is sickening

[@thatguy1522]

Thank you for reporting on this. I am Chippewa Cree from Montana. I was living In Billings at the time of not afraid disappearing I took the day off and went and helped with the search wish I could have been out there more to help. I am glad she was found even if it was not to bring her home alive. I am the father of a daughter and I worry all the time for her when she gets older. I have been a follower and activist for this sense 2015 at one point I was obsessed with it and it takes a toll on you following so closely to it.

[@ronsmith1364]

🙏

[@montanaliving4769]

Thank you sir for service, I pray your fellow Montana people will get up and help! This is not acceptable!

[@lindamaemullins5151]

😔🙏❤️

[@kevinbuda7087]

Where are your children? Did they come home? Do they call? Where are your children when pow wow comes to town? Hitching to aunties or grammas house on a whim? Is discipline taught along with freedom? Do your children understand curfew? Why is tee-pee creeping so winked at? Does your tribe get along with other tribes or do old wounds run as deep as those beautiful names? Short of tieing your daughters up what is your family plan? Evil exists and it exists within and outside the boundaries of your rez. It's not the matter for the fbi.

[@montanaliving4769]

@@kevinbuda7087 wise words

[@ThisTheBreaks]

I say its a Truck Driver that frequents i90. Set up good cameras and undercover agents at the nearest Truck Stop

[@thatboyj1211]

That or someone with a seasonal job nearby. Serial killers and kidnappers actually learn a ton from these t.v shows and it helps them slip thru.

[@rafaelmolini4164]

People talking about truckers being suspects ..... more uncomfortable reality is when Native women are kidnapped and murdered, the culprit tends to be a Native man. What needs to happen is massive investments in these communities to break the cycle of poverty, depression, alcoholism, murder. But Republicans certainly wont and Democrats will pretend to care, but do nothing.

[@freedomordeath89]

Most crimes inside any community are caused by members of the community.

[@RichardDOwens]

Excellent job baselessly asserting your speculation without any evidence or information.

[@rspoonq5360]

@Right Wing Media tell that to the natives

[@kendrick607]

There are to many of my sister's coming up missing. The world is rampant with demons praying on the lost and weak. When I see news like this it just breaks my heart.

[@AfroMan187]

I didn't know about this epidemic until I saw the movie Wind River a few years back, it was eye opening to say the least

[@bearsbeauty5007]

This is true on the Navajo reservation as well, I currently reside there.

[@doc.christopherthompson324]

. I saw that every year, ya'lls local clinic does free blood test for health reasons. But Fed. Gov. is waiting for The end of a certain % of pure DNA, as to take The rest of your land. (SO STOP TAKING DRUGS= MEDS, ALCOHOL, ETC. & cigarettes is a start ta ya down fall) So ya'll better come together and protect The Native blood line. God bless everybody real Good, more in&by Jesus, thank you Jesus.!!!

[@OAlem]

@Daniel Smith Only 22 percent of American Indians live on reservations. You thought it was the majority, didn't you?

[@RadagastBrown420]

@Daniel Smith trolls are going to troll.

[@emmettlester739]

@Daniel Smith White people say that about minorities in the "hoods" in the city. They have these areas where minorities live in, black people in this conversation, because of segregation, where they were cut off from jobs, education, and health care. Systematic oppression. Reservations are the same. You put poor ultra-poor people in one area and say "it's your fault" but it isn't at all. Poverty leads to crimes. Statistics across the world came to that conclusion. You can spew racist propaganda but the truth is, colonizers, ruined the lives of millions of people. Why spread misinformation about Natives on a video about Natives being killed? Let me answer that for you, you aren't smart enough to read a book and just stupid all the way around.

[@SORBCOINC]

A nation that forgets it's people will itself be forgotten. We all live here together. Together we can be invincible and unforgettable. This story is both heartbreaking and extremely concerning.

[@-John-Doe-]

So do you suggest the United States take away their sovereignty?

[@fredricksmith-something.2125]

They need better protection and information. Im getting sick of these women getting preyed on.

[@trevorlastname2139]

They literally have their own laws and land. Wtf do you expect? If they were smart they'd leave the god damned reservation and 50 percent of these cases would disappear. They have very little to nothing to even live on, but they stay.

[@savannahy1176]

@@trevorlastname2139 it’s not that easy to just leave the place you’ve probably lived your whole life, where your family is, and your job most likely is. Also, the government still fucks over Native Americans so they can keep them poor and underserved so they’re more likely to be dependent

[@fredricksmith-something.2125]

@Oszy Buhligen What does that have to do with my comment moron?

[@fredricksmith-something.2125]

@Oszy Buhligen Shhhhhh. Crawl back into your hole.

[@trevorlastname2139]

@@savannahy1176 If they're off the Rez. I think you'll find that there is 1000.00 a month for even being half Indian. In Brighton, Florida they have a ton of scholarships to go to good colleges to better their lives.

[@thrillcker68]

We have this happening in Canada too. It’s terrible

[@Nyc99]

Someone evil as hell doing it

[@thrillcker68]

@@Nyc99 many evil as hell I’m afraid. Serial killers choose them because they are easier targets. Many socio-economic factors are in play. I wish there was better education for them more opportunities to get out of poverty.

[@Nyc99]

@@thrillcker68 me too, those reservations make them accesible to killer. Should be with rest of population and not in dessert, so we all could protect one another

[@thrillcker68]

@@Nyc99 even when they are amongst us they still are targeted. Society is failing them. They look and see gangs, drugs easy money. Pretty tempting. Instead they need to go into trade schools IT schools. Programs 2 or 3 years so they make a decent living without the temptation. We need to address the poverty issue then the people will succeed. More teaching about drugs and alcohol and addiction and more programs. My friend has had 3 children die, and several grandchildren. My heart aches for her.

[@gobofraggel7383]

My daughter is 16. I still drive her everywhere and sleep in my car waiting outside of wherever she goes. I am very afraid because I see many men looking at her even though I taught her to dress properly and not wear tight revealing clothing. Very sad for the families who will be forever tortured by this loss.

[@shubhamvats6920]

And you call us a third world country .

[@th-cq2wg]

Stay alert always

[@eric6345]

@elkq03 I agree that women are not "asking for it" if they choose to wear skimpy outfits, but dressing properly for the environment your in can reduce risk of an attack. For example, If I were walking by myself in a downtown area of the city-- late at night-- I would not want to walk around in a nice business suit. I would much rather be dressed rather grubby and scruffy looking to reduce the chance of being Robbed. If I were wearing that business suit, and I get robbed, Was "I asking for it"? Well, NO but what was I doing walking around at night in a Business Suit?? You kind of need to have street smarts and common sense about things like that.

[@toplel1860]

@elkq03 thats actually very true while men generally notice and feel attracted to a pretty woman abducting them or physically harrasing them is what turns them into a criminal you might get a cat call but the guy trying ro actually grope you is the actual criminal

[@brandonp2211]

This world is sick you are keeping her safe

[@davidstevens3371]

We just sent billions of dollars to foreign countries including 10 million for transgender studies in Pakistan. We need to start taking care of our own.

[@puzzled012]

yes you do, but USA is really not a benifactor on the outside either, blaming Pakistanis for this is ridiculous. ps dropping bombs, athough costly, does not constitute help

[@themookshit]

@@puzzled012 you misunderstood the comment

[@michelestack6474]

Amen . I agree 100% . We need to take care of our own . We got issues in this country.

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

@@inventorydepartment3662 well you sound like a hateful waste of human life.

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

@@puzzled012 that’s funny coming from a guy that lives in a place they treat woman like dogs and behead people for no reason.

[@hello40169]

Wind River is a good film that shows the reality of this issue

[@dvsn23]

I was thinking the same thing. So heartbreaking.

[@feleciajohnson8467]

Good movie

[@monacoofthebluepacific2571]

Is it on Netflix?

[@sabrina.natalie]

@@monacoofthebluepacific2571 - I don’t believe it’s on Netflix, unfortunately. You can rent it on Amazon Prime for $3.99 or rent it on KZbin for $3.99. It’s definitely worth the money. It really gives some insight on the horrific issue on why indigenous women are being murdered and going missing, with no justice, so rapidly. It really paints an accurate picture. Definitely watch it that movie when you get a chance.

[@SageandDust]

Thank you for reporting on this. This is something we cannot ignore.

[@ccchk1]

Those killers or killer know what's going on with the system and are taking advantage. I wouldnt be surprised if is someone related to the police system, someone familiar to the system.

[@1000dotsdeath]

Maybe even a tribe member...

[@SuperTonyony]

Cops have a much higher rate of psychopathy than the general population.

[@eltorocal]

Who do people turn to up there, in times of need or instances of trouble? Who is in charge? The Police... that's who. Hhhmmmmmm....

[@Mark_nobody3]

I think some asswipe may have sold some people out for that little money

[@manlyjoel8829]

@Jake R People are people don't matter what group or classification you give them.

[@RichardDOwens]

RESERVATIONS NEED MORE SELF-POLICING & POLICE TRAINING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM THIS PREDATION

[@Elizabeth-pi4qh]

Most reservations don't have a lot of extra money for either. Your capitalization indicates you think its the reservations and women's fault. If our government did what they should and invest money on schools trade schools infrastructure internet. There are Navajo who have no electricity or indoor toilets. We have failed our fellow Americans.

[@washingtondale]

@@Elizabeth-pi4qh The problem includes girls without skill / education turning tricks at the bars. That & tribal sovereignty are “inconvenient facts” left out of the article. It’s heartbreaking as are many things happening around the world under (nonwestern) traditions.

[@RichardDOwens]

@@Elizabeth-pi4qh I'm begging for help for our sisters and daughters! I'm all capping because I want this problem remedied quickly! PLEASE FUNDING NOW

[@カスカディア国人]

@@RichardDOwens our government doesn’t care about us regular folks, it only cares about rich people. We have to stand up together and fix our problems and wage a peaceful revolution against the system. No one is going to save us, only a movement of the people for democracy and human rights can save us, and make no mistake the neglect of Native American communities is a human rights issue, just like healthcare, just like BLM, just like the abuse against refugees happening at our border, just like poverty in my white rural southern town devastated by free trade. We have a system that does not care about our wellbeing, that does not value human life, it takes everything from us and pits us against each other while people like Bezos laugh all the way to the bank.

[@direfalcon-twospies4466]

@@Elizabeth-pi4qh lol you're hilarious - you think ALL CAPS = BLAME? That's utterly ridiculous. He never said that. You're putting words into his mouth. You want our government to invest in their "school schools trade schools infrastructure internet"? You DO realize these are reservations - their own nations. The "government" isn't allowed to go in there and build infrastructure, you uninformed person.

[@rosyx7148]

Dang, I cannot believe I am only learning about this. My heart goes out to the Native American community. How absolutely horrible :(

[@nahwhitfield2016]

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[@kevinbuda7087]

She died of exposer. No foul play. After a party. She walked into a field without proper clothing. 16 years old . It's called poor parenting.

[@ggdiaz8007]

I sadly often forget my dad's Choctaw/Creek heritage because I wasn't raised in that world. Hearing this is like tearing open a wound I didn't know existed.

[@gibsongirl4443]

My heart goes out to the families of the women who have fallen victim to these horrible crimes!HELP for our sisters🙏

[@walkerpublications4418]

Here is the bottom line....the Native American community does not need our hearts....they need help to fund law enforcement on the rez, they need the full set of databases the narrator of this video is describing, and they need EVERYONE TO GET INVOLVED.

[@respecteverybodynohate9637]

It not just women it men also

[@andreperry7995]

This is sad

[@evelynargueta490]

The same thing is happening in the west coast of Canada...makes me want to bring up..I'm not native but I want justice for these young people..

[@dangerislander]

Isn't there a highway named after this.. the highway of tears?

[@MegaCassie83]

My mother and I went through this violence. I survived she did not.

[@tarah.1648]

I am so so sorry ❤ I can't imagine the pain. I'm in tears after just watching a 14 min doc. I live in Alaska and every Alaskan Native woman I've gotten to know has been assaulted in some kind of way. It's heartbreaking and I have only seen it on its surface. Making some offerings and prayers for you and all the other indigenous women out there. You all deserve love and protection

[@cntpdbab]

I'm northern cheyenne and it is horrifying to think that she may be one of my cousins (and she looks very similar to my older cousins). I hope that she will make it back safely and that indigenous women will be able to live without fear.

[@based7213]

I am Ch’orti Maya from honduras and the same thing is happening here.. and indigenous woman goes missing every 24 hours in our country and they kidnap young girls and peel their skin like potatoes. It’s very scary and the police are too scared because the gang members are too violent. Indigenous communities make up 28% of our population we must stand up!!

[@TonyBMoviehood]

They're kidnapping them knowing that they won't be apprehended compared to other people

[@jaxtrax7173]

Why??

[@talitam.8414]

Exactly!

[@talitam.8414]

@@jaxtrax7173 The whole documentary is the answer to your question.

[@billyyamahaboy]

She wasnt kid napped idk why vice tried to play the story this way she died in the snow on side of hwy she wasnt harmed by anyone

[@TonyBMoviehood]

@@billyyamahaboy I know just in general. This is just one instance

[@rsh573]

There is a huge problem and it has gone on too long! My prayers are with the families.

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

Some of the last names like “Stops Pretty Places” broke my heart…they all do and for my heart breaks those who love them…but that just broke me. One of my sons, when very young, disappeared in a Penney’s…I remember the terror, the anguish…oh I can’t imagine if he’d been taken. That whole communities have to live under the threat of this for all the worst reasons infuriates me. Shame on this country. Shame.

[@trelanding]

My heart goes out to the Families of the missing Women 💜

[@bachmannjbrad]

This breaks my heart. Why are people so horrible to one another. It makes me sick to my stomach seeing these beautiful souls taken from us way to early and absolutely unnecessary. And it only seems like it's getting worse. What do we need to do?

[@rickpickle]

Understanding the story of "the frog and the scorpion", would be a start.

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

1. record everything relevant, just letting people get the bodies then not investigate isnt good, they are ruling it as suicide and stuff because they may be guilty themselves, the police. You need to form your own investigators, and realize there may be a deceiver 2. the ladies need to practice with rifles and carry rifles 3. they need a source of money to afford that stuff, rely on less middlemen and less outsiders where money is involved, like, produce goods to sell, start a charity off indigenous land to fund indigenous 4. dont be gullible 5. it could be someone pretending to be a friend to the community 6. its almost certainly someone with dark triad traits in the community, or a secret agent, or police officers on the other jurisdiction side who have dark triad traits. 7. research a lot. In canada its perpetuated by the catholics. In USA it may be the same. Catholics had their hand in african poverty too. In Ireland killing mothers and their children. In china its committed by the government to muslims. 8. Realize you can understand everything with visualization and conceptualization, you may make mistakes in comprehension sometimes. But large scale patterns can be recognized and known. Don't assume things, but study and look for patterns. But some ideas require assumptions to form speculation on potential explanations initially to see what you are potentially dealing with to know to prepare for a wide range of things.

[@okpo2596]

@@mimszanadunstedt441 All those native women that are going missing are probably killed by other native men

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

@@okpo2596 Its a possibility, but at the same time if you look at the news of what catholic boarding schools and the like do to native populations, the answer isn't so cut n dry. I always find it ironic when africans worship jesus because thats an imperial religion. Also, all religions have a policy on how to hold nature. The bible called for dominance over nature in genesis. Thats why society is how it is today.

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

@@okpo2596 Maybe maybe not, you can't deny that even a small amount of hardcore racists could deal a lot of damage tho. And theres likely more of them potentially, than how much natives would end up serial killing just from population size differences.

[@joanofarca-8157]

It’s wild how people still call them ‘Indians’. They’re not from India, they’re not Indian, they are true Americans.

[@abhinay172]

Yeah I mean it all started when Columbus thought he discovered Asia but infact it was North America...He referred to the Native Americans as indos( Thinking that they were the people of Indus river). But now mostly people prefer native American rather than Indian's..

[@marilynv6224]

Indians from INDIA are not the only Indians in the world. Native American Indians here in the States have always been Native Indian Tribes before the White Man took this country over from them. That is how America became American!

[@ashenone3050]

@@abhinay172 he called them Indios not indos, but yea cz he thought he would arrive to india

[@elisa5215]

Literally -like it isn’t hard to call them Indigenous, First Nation peoples or even by their tribal name. De-centering ourselves from eurocentrism starts with using PROPER vocabulary.

[@abhinay172]

@@elisa5215 Yeah indigenous will be much better than native Americans since America was not even in existence at that time...

[@Monchis181-he3fy]

Indigenous women have been going missing all over the world including Australia and New Zealand. It is worldwide phenomenon.

[@tarah.1648]

It really is. Indigenous women deserve help

[@montanamike7948]

Breaks my heart knowing theres someone out there right now in danger :(

[@lionkills1]

"They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind." - Tuscarora.

[@tylervanmeter5628]

VICE should continue to follow this long history and future of the MMIW in Canada and the US and donate some proceeds to the cause. This has gone on for long enough. Bless the aboriginal nations!

[@andiestewart7423]

Thank you Vice for doing this! I wish more news channels would shine a light on these poor women

[@americaninfidel9001]

I am part of First Nation, God Bless all those young Ladies.

[@kevinbuda7087]

8%?

[@MAK3199]

There was a news story a while back the same thing happens in Canada. Keep finding indigenous women dead by the river. And their own community had to volunteer to try and search for the missing bodies in the river no government help. As if no one is investigating this properly.

[@SuzanneDeniseB]

Yes. The Highway of Tears

[@gtas321]

Wtf.

[@florjean965]

I heard somewhere that the serial killer along the highway of tears was in fact a police officer. Allegedly the cop was able to target Indigenous women in Prince George, surrounding areas and dispose of their bodies throughout the vast forrest.

[@florjean965]

@insomanic I was watching a documentary about the Highway of Tears and there was an older gentlemen who had dedicated his life trying to solve cases about missing Indigenous women in the Prince George area. He was the one that speculated that the serial killer may have been a cope. And what's with the condescending tone in your comment?! Besides who's to say that there haven't been other serial killers targeting vulnerable women? Canada is quite a vacant country and it makes it a serial killer's heaven due to large forests we have; a body can be discarded in middle of the woods and no one could find it.

[@randylahey8318]

This problem is really bad in Canada too

[@MrMAC8964]

Well , have you even looked in the dtes ? Prob not as your understanding will increase.

[@av8264]

I have asked a woman from the Lakota Nation why the sisters go missing. She never gave me an answer. Silence is what kills. I'm thankful to come across this documentary. I encouraged Native American women to speak out more about this issue.

[@Jewels122003]

she didn't trust you....sounds like you were hostile/accusatory. Look at yourself, what have you done in defence of sisters?