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MISSOULA, Mont. - Montana has become all too familiar with Murdered and Missing Indigenous People (MMIP) cases going unsolved on reservations across the state. Loved ones are left with little
MISSOULA, Mont. - Montana has become all too familiar with Murdered and Missing Indigenous People (MMIP) cases going unsolved on reservations across the state. Loved ones are left with little
Haley Omeasoo's dream is one step closer to becoming reality after an Indigenous youth group based in California raised $15,000 for Ohkomi Forensics.
Haley Omeasoo, the founder and executive director of Ohkomi Forensics, was 20 years old when she saw a missing persons flier for her former high school classmate, Ashley Loring Heavyrunner. Seeing the face of someone she knew on a missing persons flier wasn’t a new experience for Omeasoo, a citizen of the Hopi Tribe and a Blackfeet descendant. “It's kind of a normal thing, you see a post on Facebook about so and so being missing or an attempt to locate, and a lot of the time, they do end up showing up,” Omeasoo told Native News Online.
Haley Omeasoo was already studying forensic science at the University of Montana when she saw the poster that redefined her life. The 2017 poster announced that her former high school classmate, Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, had gone missing on the Blackfeet Reservation in northern Montana. Just 20 at the time, HeavyRunner has never been found in the seven years since.