Natives and allies gathered in front of the Big Horn County Courthouse to remember the fathers, mothers, daughters, brothers, and sisters whose deaths have gone uninvestigated and unsolved.
Documentary filmed in Hardin highlights missing and murdered cases
Documentary shot in Hardin highlights local missing teens
By: Russ Riesinger
and last updated 2021-05-13 11:35:46-04
A new documentary, filmed in Hardin, seeks to raise awareness about Montanaâs Missing and Murdered Peopleâs cases, of which a large number continue to go unsolved. Say Her Name
is directed by Rain and hosted by Juliet Hayes, a member of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana. She calls Big Horn County, which includes parts of two reservations, the epicenter of the MMIW crisis.
âI m an indigenous woman myself. Before going to Montana to film this documentary, even I didn t know the severity of it,â said Hayes.
People gather at the Big Horn County Courthouse to remember the hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Billings Gazette
Several people wearing red gathered on the steps of the Big Horn County Courthouse on Wednesday, most of them carrying signs with the name of a young woman who had just turned 18 when she went missing.
The friends and family of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places remembered her as a tenacious person. She had enough ambition to fight past dyslexia and earn the grades needed to compete in cross country, wrestling and football as a Hardin Bulldog.
âShe was also very protective. She looked out for her friends who lived under less-than-great circumstances, and invited them in. I would have a lot of kids staying over. She did that with animals, too ⦠I think we had about 100 dogs one year,â said Yolanda Fraser, one of Stops Pretty Placesâ grandmothers who has stood in front of the county courthouse to ask for county officials to ac