Monday, December 9, 2024 – Native MMIP advocates use their skills to seek answers

Native America Calling

The disproportionately high number of unsolved cases for missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP) inspired Haley Omeasoo to launch a research lab on the Blackfeet Nation’s Montana reservation. Ohkomi Forensics offers tribal police and other law enforcement agencies scientific data in an attempt to make connections with current and past investigations. It’s one of the ways Native advocates all over the country are working to fill gaps to improve the troubling statistics for Native crime victims.

GUESTS

Haley Omeasoo (enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe and Blackfeet Nation descent), executive director and president of Ohkomi Forensics

Eleanore Sunchild (Thunderchild First Nation), Indigenous human rights attorney with Sunchild Law

Bree R Black Horse (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma), MMIP Assistant United States Attorney for the Northwest Regions

Melissa Skeet (Diné), endurance roller skater

Break 1 Music: Remember Me (song) Fawn Wood (artist) Kikāwiynaw (album)

Break 2 Music: I Am the Beginning and the End (song) Dorothy Tsatoke (artist) Native American Healing Songs Come to me Great Mystery