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Vigils, Panel Discussion Call Attention To Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women
The crisis of violence against Indigenous women and girls is being recognized in ceremonies in Montana and around the nation this week. Family members and advocates gathered on the State Capitol steps in Helena Wednesday and outside the Payne Family Native American Center in Missoula.
Prayers, speeches and songs evoking hope, rage and the importance of tribal sovereignty echoed on the oval of the University of Montana campus just before sunset.
[Music] “Lately I can’t get you out of my mind. Oh how hard it is to say goodbye. But it’s never goodbye, just say I’ll see you again …”
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For years, journalist Connie Walker has been covering an overlooked epidemic: violence against Indigenous women. Across North America, women and girls vanish without warning and are murdered at more than ten times the national average, according to the Indian Law Resource Center. Families often wait days for authorities to take action as they desperately seek information and accountability.
Walker, who is Cree from Okanese First Nation in Canada, helps those families find answers. In her latest investigation for Gimlet/Spotify, a new eight episode podcast called
Stolen: The Search for Jermain, Walker looks into the disappearance of Jermain Charlo, a 23-year-old woman from the Flathead Reservation in Montana who has been missing since 2018. “As an Indigenous journalist, I have a responsibility to tell the truth,” Walker tells ELLE.com. “[To] connect the dots for our listeners, so they understand how this history is connected to the crisis of violence in our communi