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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 Facebook Share Two years ago, Merle Kirk asked Oregon legislators for help. During a House committe...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day marked in Western MT May 5 marks the silent crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and girls in the US -- including in Montana. By: Katie Miller and last updated 2021-05-05 20:12:17-04 The day marks the silent crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and girls in the US -- including in Montana. Numbers compiled by the Blackfeet Community College in regards to the MMIW crisis show there are over 1,100 tr...

May 5 marks the silent crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and girls in the US -- including in Montana.

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 Kirks sister. This story originally appeared on Underscore.news. Two years ago, Merle Kirk asked Oregon legislators for help. Durin...

Western Native Voice will fight Montana bill that limits ballot collection Keila Szpaller View Comments Organizers for Western Native Voice are paid to collect ballots, but that’s just one part of their job, said Keaton Sunchild, political director for the nonpartisan voting and civic engagement nonprofit based in Billings. But this week, those organizers have been handing out coronavirus survival kits, which include items such as masks, he said. They earlier completed health care appreciatio...

Spotify 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. I...

Connie Walker’s New Podcast Seeks Justice For Missing Indigenous Women ELLE 4/28/2021 Rose Minutaglio © Spotify In her new podcast‘Stolen,’ Walker investigates the disappearance of Jermain Charlo, a 23-year-old woman from the Flathead Reservation in Montana. For more than two decades, 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 mor...

SPRs Doug Nadvornick reports. Researchers from two Northwest universities are wondering about the most effective way to get Covid testing supplies to Native American and Latino people. They’ve received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to test their ideas in Washington and Montana. Alexandra Adams from Montana State University is the principal investigator of the project known as Protecting Our Communities. “What we know is that the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affe...

Rolling Stone ‘Stolen: The Search for Jermain’ Highlights Plight of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women “Someone knows something about Jermain Charlo. And we’re really hoping that this podcast sheds light on her case, but also on her life,” host Connie Walker says By Courtesy of Gimlet Media; Connie Walker Connie Walker vividly remembers the day she started to pitch a story about a missing indigenous woman to her boss at a national currents-affair show — a woman w...

1990s country music veteran Tim Ryan Rouillier, right, performs in “My Grandpa’s Fiddle,” a wild autobiographical Montana tale of traveling and performing with his Salish Indian grandfather, a tribal judge, a master entertainer and fiddle player, throughout the picturesque Flathead Reservation landscape in his youth. Courtesy / Tim Ryan Rouillier