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Donna Bartlett (left) walks to court in Winnipeg with other family members. Photo APTN file
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Grandmother of victim remains hopeful as Manitoba landfill search marks first month

By APTN National News
FILE - The FBI seal is displayed on a podium before a news conference at the agency's headquarters on June 14, 2018, in Washington. A U.S. senator is pressing the FBI for more information after a whistleblower alleged that an internal review found 665 FBI personnel have resigned or retired to avoid accountability in misconduct probes over the past two decades, according to a letter early from the senator early Oct. 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
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FBI: Two-year surge led to 2,000 new cases, 40 arrests

By Amelia Schafer
Chris White Eagle and his son Chance White Eagle stand in front of their Sacred Storm logo on their business named in honor of Chance's daughter, Aiko Storm White Eagle. (Photo by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)
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A girl named Storm: An MMIP story

By Amelia Schafer
Riders pose for a photo at Bear Butte State Park before the 2024 Medicine Wheel Ride on August 4. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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‘We belong here too’

By Amelia Schafer
A group of red dresses hang from the trees outside the Journey Museum in Rapid City. The Red Ribbon Skirt Society, founded by Lily Mendoza, has put up this display every year since 2016 to honor missing and murdered Indigenous women. (Photo by Darsha Dodge, Rapid City Journal)
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Search for Native woman’s identity reignites

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
Carmen White Horse spoke about the murder of her granddaughter Reganne Chekpa during the inaugural MMIP conference held by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Rosebud Sioux Tribe. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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MMIP conference a place for healing and hope

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
Allison Morrisette is the state of South Dakota's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Coordinator. (Photo by Matt Gade, Rapid City Journal)
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MMIP cases in South Dakota remain high, new efforts hope to change that

By Amelia Schafer
Bo Sits Poor and sister Tawny Eagle Louse pose next to an age-progressed photo of their missing aunt, Delema Lou Sits Poor. Sits Poor was last seen in 1974 heading to a friends house after school. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)
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50 years later, Lakota girl still missing

By Amelia Schafer
Mountain Bureau
Author and former rapper Wab Kinew, shown here with a traditional pipe and headdress, is sworn in on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, as premier of the province of Manitoba, becoming Canada's first-ever First Nations provincial premier. He is joined at the podium by, from left, Chief Lola Thunderchild of Canupawakpa Dakota Nation and the chief of Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, Jennifer Bone. Kinew was elected on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in what was dubbed an "Orange Wave" with sizeable turnout of young voters. (Miles Morrisseau, ICT)
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CANADA 2023: The Year in Review

By Miles Morrisseau
Family members of missing and slain Native Americans gathered to watch New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham sign legislation during a ceremony in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. New Mexico's governor isn't backing down on her decision to nominate a former tribal leader who once faced sexual assault charges to head the state's Indian Affairs Department. Advocates who have worked to address violence against Native American women and bring more attention to missing persons cases within their communities are pushing the state Senate to hold a confirmation hearing for James Mountain. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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Money to find missing Indigenous people sits untouched

By New Mexico In Depth
Norma Rendon, Oglala Lakota, has been a domestic violence victim advocate since 1977. Rendon currently runs Where All Women are Honored in Rapid City. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal.)
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Survivors speak out against domestic abuse

By Amelia Schafer
Prairie Rose Seminole, a citizen of the Three Affiliated Tribes, raises her fist as she rides out of Bear Butte during the 2023 Medicine Wheel Ride. Seminole produced the documentary about the ride, “We Ride for Her”. (Amelia Schafer for ICT and the Rapid City Journal)
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Riding for remembrance, riding for change

By Amelia Schafer
Sabrina Van Tassel pulls up press releases and news articles from past films at the Sorrento Hotel in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (Annie Barker / The Herald)
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Filmmaker aims to shed light on missing Tulalip woman

By Everett Herald
The Maori flag known as Tino Rangatiratanga, shown here with a protester on top of One Tree Hill in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2007, will be flown at Women's World Cup Stadiums in FIFA's 2023 matchs in Australia and New Zealand. FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed the decision on Friday, July 7, 2023, that First Nations flags will be flown at Women's World Cup stadiums after soccer's world governing body agreed to make exceptions to the usually tight FIFA match day regulations for tournament venues. (Xavier La Canna/AAP Image via AP)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Flags, forests and landfill protests

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Indivisible Tohono Co-Founder April Ignacio talks about the importance of the City of Tucson and Pima County’s intent to form a task force during a press conference on National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on May 5, 2023. (Photo by Antonio Ramirez, City of Tucson)
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‘This is the bare minimum’

By Shondiin Silversmith
Canadian Member of Parliament Leah Gazan, Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation in Saskatchewan, presented a motion approved unanimously in Canada's House of Commons calling on the government to declare an emergency over missing or murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. Gazan, is a member of the New Democratic Party from Winnipeg Centre, Manitoba. She is shown here campaigning on Sept. 24, 2019, in Winnipeg as NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh looks on.  (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Protests, reforms and Aboriginal art

By Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
The City of Portland, led by Laura John, held an event aiming to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous people at South Hawthorne Waterfront Park on May 5, 2022. Many people wore red in commemoration of missing and murdered Indigenous people. (Photo by Leah Nash/Underscore News)
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Wearing red, Indigenous families honor missing relatives

By The Associated Press
Washington Rep. Debra Lekanoff, D-Anacortes, speaks Thursday, March 31, 2022, before Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill sponsored by Lekanoff that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people — particularly women, in Quil Ceda Village, near Marysville, Wash., north of Seattle. The law creates a system similar to Amber Alerts, which are used for missing children in many states. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Missing Indigenous people cold case unit created

By The Associated Press
Pictured: The Navajo Nation Veterans Memorial Park in Window Rock, Arizona.
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Remains are Navajo woman missing since 1987

By The Associated Press
FILE - Seraphine Warren, center left, is embraced by state Sen. Shannon Pinto outside the state capitol building on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Santa Fe, N.M. They participated in a rally drawing attention to murdered and missing Ingenious peoples, including Warren's aunt Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo woman who went missing in June of 2021. A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on assault and carjacking charges in connection with the 2021 disappearance of Ella Mae Begay in a case that has helped raise awareness about missing and unsolved slayings in Indian Country. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)
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Judge orders man held in case of missing Navajo woman

By The Associated Press
Red dresses in memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls hang on the fence on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022, at the Brady Landfill in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, where the remains of Indigenous women targeted by a serial killer may have been dumped. Protesters blocked entrance to the landfill after the Winnipeg Police refused to search the landfill. A Winnipeg man, Jeremy Skibicki, 35, was charged Dec. 1, 2022, with murder in the deaths of four Indigenous women, but the bodies of three have not been found. (Photo by Miles Morrisseau/ICT)
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First Nations chief challenges Winnipeg police to do ‘proper investigation’

By Miles Morrisseau
FILE - Seraphine Warren, center left, is embraced by state Sen. Shannon Pinto outside the state capitol building on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Santa Fe, N.M. They participated in a rally drawing attention to murdered and missing Ingenious peoples, including Warren's aunt Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo woman who went missing in June of 2021. A federal grand jury has indicted a New Mexico man on assault and carjacking charges in connection with the 2021 disappearance of Ella Mae Begay in a case that has helped raise awareness about missing and unsolved slayings in Indian Country. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)
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Man charged in case of missing Navajo woman

By The Associated Press
Indigenous protesters have remained at the Brady Landfill in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for more than a month, posting signs such as these in early February 2023. They are calling for police to search the landfill for the remains of women believed to be the victims of a serial killer who targeted Indigenous women. (Photo by Miles Morrisseau/ICT)
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Another Indigenous woman’s remains found at Winnipeg landfill

By Miles Morrisseau
Kuspuks of varying colors displayed at a tribal consultation meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, on Sept. 21, 2022 represent Indigenous victims of violence. The color red represents Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women; orange for victims of boarding schools; the baby kuspuk for children who will never be born; purple for victims of domestic violence; turquoise for victims of sexual assault; multicolor for LGBTQ victims; and black for men who are victims. The kuspuks were arrayed at the Justice Department's annual tribal consultation conference required under the Violence Against Woman Act. In testimony Wednesday to the state House Tribal Affairs Special Committee, members of a working group listed several practical steps they said could improve safety of Indigenous people. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
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Protecting Indigenous women and girls

By Alaska Beacon