Episodes

Maggie talks with us, in the last mini this week, about the inequity of media coverage when it comes to MMIW and questions what makes the media decide whose story is worth sharing. Nancy Grace Analoak Freda Knowshisgun Ashley...

Mildred Alexis Old Crow was just six years old when she was reported missing in November 2020 on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. Her body would be discovered a few months later, and yet the question remains unanswered...

Today's mini takes us to Canada and covers the ongoing case of an alleged serial killer in Winnipeg who spent the earlier part of 2022 targeting Indigenous women. As we still await more details regarding this case, we wanted ...

Join us for a special episode as we discuss the tragic life story of Matoaka, a young woman known to the world as Pocahontas. Sources: https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2007/07/pocahontas-saves-john-smith.html https://www.amer...

In August 2003, 19-year-old Sonya Ivanoff left home with her best friend in Nome, Alaska, for a night out of fun. Two days later, her lifeless body would be discovered, and the following investigation would uncover the shocki...

Rita Papakee is one of the first instances of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) experienced by the Meskwaki Nation, also known as the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. She was 41 years old when she vani...

Thank you again to Western Carolina University and the Bardo Arts Center for inviting us to record on location at their beautiful MMIW exhibit, and thank you to everyone who came to see us! It was truly a great way to celebr...

In August 2022, a weekend altercation at a bar in Montana escalated into the death of 28-year-old Whisper Sellars. While this case is still ongoing, with multiple conflicting witness testimonies and a self-defense plea, Whisp...

Vanessa Yvette Niko, 35, was a member of the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe in Upper Lake, California. She had a tumultuous on-off relationship with the father of three of her children, Willy Tujays Timmons, 37. On June...

In June 2022, the body of Mavis Nelson, 56, was found less than a mile from where she lived in Seattle, Washington. Mavis' last contact with her was in April 2022 and for three months, her sister was unaware she was missing. ...

In September 2018, Ashley Johnson Barr decided to go to the park near her home in Kotzebue, Alaska. She never returned home that day, and her body would be discovered eight days later. She was only ten years old. Sources: htt...

According to a PBS News Hours article, a 2015 report from the Treatment Advocacy Center showed people with untreated mental illnesses are 16 times more likely to be shot and killed by police. Renee Davis was a 23-year-old Nat...

Wilma Colhoff has experienced unimaginable loss. In 11 years, she has lost three children, Shelly Poor Bear, Daniel Bad Milk, and Annie Colhoff, to violence on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Her story is hard to ...

Kimberly Iron was only 21 when she left her home on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. It was October 2020 when her father received a final phone call from her, and she has not been seen or heard from again. Kimberly is ...

In 1991, Alicia Lara, a Tarahumara woman, was found dead in Weitchpec, a small community on the Yurok reservation in Humboldt County in Northern California. Her death was ruled accidental under suspicious circumstances; her d...

In June 2022, the body of Mavis Nelson, 56, was found less than a mile from where she lived in Seattle, Washington. Her death was ruled a homicide, and her family is desperately seeking answers. Mavis' last contact with her w...

On April 22, 2021, three-year-old Arden Pepion from Browning, Montana, disappeared on the Blackfeet Reservation while in the care of her uncle and his girlfriend. A formal search for Arden lasted ten days, finding only footpr...

Emilee Risling was a 33-year-old mother of two when she mysteriously disappeared in October 2021 in Northern California. Connected to three tribes, Hoopa Valley, Karuk, and Yurok, Emmilee's life was rooted in tradition. Howev...

Right now, the FBI is investigating the death of Ashleigh Wabasha, a 19-year-old woman from the Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska. Ashleigh Mae Wabasha was born in Yankton, South Dakota, on July 6, 2002. Described as full of li...

When Jamie Yazzie went missing in June 2019, she was last seen in Pinon, Arizona within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. It was announced earlier this year that her remains were discovered back in November 2021. Now an a...

In January of 2022, Matthew Edgar, 25 years old, was on trial for the shooting death of his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend, Livye Lewis, a member of the Choctaw Apache Tribe of Ebarb, on October 30, 2021, in Hemphill, Texas. On th...

Anna Marie Scott, a member of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe in Reno, Nevada, was just 23 years old when she was found murdered in a burning car on the shoulder of a busy interstate in February 2022. Since then, little informa...

On September 25, 2013, in Norman, Oklahoma, 27-year-old Owachige Osceola was found dead inside her ransacked apartment. With her cause of death undetermined and her case still unsolved, her family needs answers. Norman Crime ...

Today, we went on a tangent for you guys, from Brittaney to Yellowstone and Supreme Court decisions. We HAD to talk about it. But, most importantly, we had to speak about Khadijah. Her story will make you angry; you should be...