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 Kirk s sister.
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Two years ago, Merle Kirk asked Oregon legislators for help.
During a House committee hearing in February 2019, she told the story of the women in her family who have disappeared or were murdered over the last 60 years.
Kirk told lawmakers that her sister, Mavis Kirk-Greeley, died in 2009 when her boyfriend deliberately hit her with his vehicle on the Warm Springs Reservation. He was never convicted of a crime. For Kirk, her sister’s death echoed the 1957 murder of her grandmother, Mavis Josephine McKay, on the Yakama Indian Reservation and adds
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