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To a crowd of around 170 people on the University of Montana campus Wednesday night, Anya Means spoke about her niece Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, who she lost in 2019.
âShe was such a beautiful soul, she was full of light, she was compassionate and she had a big heart,â said Means, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Nation.
She described the frustrations she and her family have faced with law enforcement who were in charge of investigating Stops Pretty Placesâ death, including not being notified that her body was located until about two weeks after officials had found her.
Colorlines Q&A: Where is the Data on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women?
Investigative journalist, Connie Walker, of the Okanese First Nation in Canada, discusses her work, the media’s lack of response and her podcast, Stolen: The Search for Jermain.
Photo Credit: Connie Walker, courtesy of Connie Walker; Stolen show art, courtesy of Jessie Harte, Elise Harven and Talia Rochmann
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1995, 28-year-old
Pamela Jean George a mother of two from the Sakimay First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada was brutally murdered by two white, affluent men, ages 19 and 20. The following year,
MacLean’s reported that the men boasted about driving around, getting drunk, sexually assaulting and killing George. MacLean’s also noted that one of the murderers was even reported to have told a friend, “She deserved it. She was Indian.” For killing George, the two university students received