Ashely Loring Heavyrunner went missing on the Blackfeet reservation in Northern Montana in 2017. In the years since her disappearance, her sister Kimberly has spent countless hours searching for any evidence on a reservation the size of Delaware. It took 10 months for the FBI to finally begin an investigation into Ashley’s case, after Kimberly traveled to Washington DC and testified before congress.

In 2015, Lonette Keehner, a member of the Blackfeet tribe, was murdered by two white supremacists at the Super 8 Motel, where she had worked for over 20 years. The newspapers simply referred to Lonette as a housekeeper; to her family, she was much more than that, and it was devastating to see her life reduced to those words. Since her death, Lonette’s daughter Nicole has been working to tell her mother’s story while raising the voices of others who have been lost to the crisis. Lonette’s killers have been brought to trial, but the DA declined to include hate crime charges in their case.

In 2017 Bonnie Three Irons went missing near the Wolf Mountains on the Crow reservation. After struggling to file a missing person’s report with the local tribal police, her family organized a search party of their own, finding Bonnie’s body in just three hours. No one has been charged, and the “open investigation” appears non-existent. Bonnie’s mother Jennifer continues to struggle to come to terms with the loss of her daughter and the injustice that comes with investigating crime in “Indian Country”.