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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.
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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.
Yellowstone Public Radio A poster with the missing notice for Selena Not Afraid blows in the wind on a blue road sign for Interstate 90 on Jan. 17, 2020.
Nearly 30 Indigenous advocacy groups are condemning the work of a presidential task force on missing and murdered Indigenous person cases.
On National Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, the groups issued a statement on Operation Lady Justice (OLJ), claiming the presidential task force established in 2019 has been, “continuously inflict[ing] harm on MMIWG and MMIP families and show[ing] disrespect to the movement.”
The statement says no significant outreach was done to engage with impacted families and grassroots advocates, an inadequate number of task force listening sessions were scheduled and that families and participants were required to pay their own travel expenses despite some sessions taking place only in-person and over a 12-hour drive away.