@kylie.brewer: The best way to help is to KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT. We need more media attention on these cases, and the laws around reservations need to change immediately. Indigenous women are not protected 💔 #indigenouswomen #humanrights #education #USHistory #antiracism

Merkassassin :

10,000!?!? How is this not in the news!?

Evelyn 🦢 :

Thats what the movie wind river is about 😕

🔥😈🔥 Darkmatter2143 🔥😈🔥 :

I’m just saying is there another possibility that these women just leave and don’t tell their family? The only reason why I bring that up is because my grandmother left her Ojibwe reservation when she was younger because her family expected her to stay there the rest of her life, and she simply wanted more than that

CHRIS_301🍁🇨🇦🍁 :

Not just the U.S.! We have the exact same issues here in Canada!!

⊹ ࣪˖ ۶ৎ :

It also is incredibly important to note that not every single indigenous person lives on a reservation. There is the basic truth that not everyone who's native wants to live on a reservation, especially with how many have been systemically sabotaged throughout the entirety of their existence but there's more to it. Federally recognized tribes may be "sovereign nations" on paper but in reality they still must comply with federal statutes, and as those shift, especially under this administration, things only become more difficult & tribal policies grow more strict. That entails people not qualifying for enrollment if they don't meet the arbituary colonial standards that the federal government enforces rather than the tribes themselves. There are rising numbers of people who were born enrolled or have gone about most of their lives enrolled then suddenly become un-enrolled. When it comes to tribal nations, enrollment is equivalent to citizenship, so think how if someone isn't a citizen of the US then the odds are stacked against them. Not enrolled in your tribe? That means no access to housing (unless you buy property), no access to those schools or classes, no access to support groups, no entitlement to treaty rights. The list goes on. Not to mention that some families fled the reservation they were assigned to as soon as they could manage to do so, due to the way they were sabotaged. Over 2 miliion indigenous individuals were enslaved as well, in both the forms of chattel slavery and sexual slavery. That means they were subject to the decisions of their “masters” , and almost always entailed being displaced. Some families have abandoned their identities and erased any trace of their ancestry as a desperate attempt to protect themselves from the racism & the plethora of other issues which should be considered too. My point is when we talk about indigenous people who've gone missing or been murdered, we should be concious that these cases are in no way limited to the bounds of any respective reservation, it happens everywhere. Signed by an indigenous person who does not live on the reservation and is in fact is stuck living in a very predominantly white area

Lili :

This is heartbreaking😭

spencers771 :

Kylie you are a force for good! We love you 🥰

siigwan❀.ೃ࿔* :

This makes me emotional to see someone even talk about it because I lose loved ones all the time and while it feels devastating to me, everyone pays no mind to it because of racism

sgallahorn :

thank you for posting

Missing In Color :

talk about it!!!!

KelvinKC :

thanks Kylie

angelfawndoll222 :

thank you for sharing

ItsDokiDoki :

Thank you for speaking on this issue!

free palestine 🍉🇵🇸 :

Two years ago?!

Trinity :

Sad!

4ysiaaa :

thank you sister

m3bullet :

damn

hooked_siren 🆘️🇺🇲🆘️🏳️‍🌈 :

Charlotte :

This is so f’ed up and depressing 😞

KelvinKC :

We love you

landinsky :

wao! interesting

just.peachy67 :

howlingwolf680 :

And it doesn't make the national news, indigenous women lives matter just as much as any other womens lives.

Ally Haystack :

i did an essay and presentation on this topic after reading Killers of the Flower Moon and the statistics absolutely shocked me. learning about the systems that also stop justice for victims was another part that was shocking. i myself am not native american but i truly hope every victim and every family affected gets the justice they deserve