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Efforts to address missing, killed Indigenous women falter in Oregon despite new law
Updated May 05, 2021;
Posted May 05, 2021
Mildred Quaempts and Merle Kirk hold a portrait of Mavis Kirk-Greeley, who died in 2009 after a driver allegedly deliberately hit her with his vehicle on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Kirk-Greeley is Quaempts’ daughter and Kirk’s sister. Kathy Aney/Underscore
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Two years ago, Merle Kirk asked Oregon legislators for help.
During a House committee hearing in February 2019, she told the story of the women in her family who have disappeared or were murdered over the last 60 years.
Kirk told lawmakers that her sister, Mavis Kirk-Greeley, died in 2009 after she was deliberately hit by a vehicle on the Warm Springs Reservation. The driver was never convicted of a crime. For Kirk, her sister’s death echoed the 1957 murder of her grandmother, Mavis Josephine McKay, on the Yakama Indian Reservation and adds more grief to the loss of y
Following Oregon investigation into murdered, missing Indigenous women, next steps unclear Brian Bull © Kathy Aney/Underscore Mildred Quaempts and Merle Kirk hold a portrait of Mavis Kirk-Greeley, who died in 2009 when her boyfriend deliberately hit her with his vehicle on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Kirk-Greeley is Quaempts daughter and Kirk s sister.
This story originally appeared on Underscore.news.
Two years ago, Merle Kirk asked Oregon legislators for help.
During a House committee hearing in February 2019, she told the story of the women in her family who have disappeared or were murdered over the last 60 years.
Kirk told lawmakers that her sister, Mavis Kirk-Greeley, died in 2009 when her boyfriend deliberately hit her with his vehicle on the Warm Springs Reservation. He was never convicted of a crime. For Kirk, her sister’s death echoed the 1957 murder of her grandmother, Mavis Josephine McKay, on the Yakama Indian Reservation and adds
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KLCC s Brian Bull reports on the lingering scourge of violence and oppression of Native American women, which has led to the observance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW.) While officials and advocates are working to overcome obstacles to investigating homicides and abductions against native people, some recent developments in the last year may help.
Merle Kirk and her family have felt the pain firsthand. In 1957, her grandmother was killed on the Yakama reservation. In 2009, her sister was allegedly run over by her boyfriend, but he was never charged. That piles on to the grief of yet a third tragedy.
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