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ABC-TV executives are getting pushback from more than a dozen Native American groups, after a new television series ignored the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Crisis.
According to a press release from the Global Indigenous Council, a letter was sent to the network urging ABC Studios to show some cultural sensitivity on the popular new series Big Sky.
The show is set in Montana, home to eight federally recognized tribes, which make up the largest minority population in the state. Unfortunately, Big Sky casts white women as the victims in its made-for-TV production, disregarding the epidemic of violence known as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) plaguing Indian Country.
On the same week members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes were meeting with the U.S. Department of Justice and other law-enforcement agencies to hammer out protocols to address missing people on the reservation, the ABC series, “Big Sky” – a drama about missing women in Montana – sought to use tribal imagery without permission.
The crime thriller debuted Nov. 17 and is based on a book by Wyoming author C.J. Box. The series, set in Montana and filmed in British Columbia, follows two women, a private detective and an ex-cop, who team up to search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway. Along the way, they discover a spate of other abductions in the area.
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ABC s Big Sky has drawn claims of exclusion and misrepresentation.
Activists and leaders in the industry say that Hollywood has significant outreach work to do: There s not parity in terms of the Native community getting an equal amount of support with what the other communities are getting.
On Dec. 2, Indigenous groups protesting the lack of Native and Indigenous female representation on the ABC procedural
Big Sky sent a message that they won t be backing down anytime soon. Not long after the show s executive producers responded for the first time to the weeks-long protest saying that their eyes had been opened and they had started working with Indigenous groups dozens more tribes joined the anti-