i try to rise drive past the talk as a former president who is been determined by the media to up to now he's not being allowed to meet and speak with most of the people that when of delegation. so he's living in a miserable condition to see ways. thank you very much. that was the w report or waste interest in a budget. you're watching dw nose up. next, we've got a documentary for you looking at disappearances and murders of indigenous women in the united states. i'm terry market. thanks for the image of so many portions of lots of thrown out in the world climate change. the story, this is much less the way from just one week. how much was going to really get

we still have time to act. i'm going to like this my grandmother was kidnapped when i was 9 years old. kind of created fear in me is a child that you know, you could be taken the

i wouldn't go missing and there murder, that is the person. it rates. anywhere that on top of the socio economic impressions that are communities often face tied with the lack of access to resources such as internet and phone. sometimes it's really easy to get targeted by predators. i want you to think about the life and the loves and the energy that this mother earth is giving you when the verdict was it. oh yes, we had a march downtown one time. we had a lot of marches and walks to banner for savannah greatland. yeah, yep. she was murdered. the

the and they left. i need some help cracking the. can you help me? is there like crack a joke too. you're going to get it for breakfast and i see you have a chipotle, a cup in your room. do you like having an individual as an artist and a curator, i'm interested in artwork that highlights issues impacting the native

community. this is a piece done by james audio. this title out there. it totally brought like a flash back to me of like watching my dad when i was a kid. go out to look for my grandma and we were in the car, were driving home and he pulled off on the side of the road and walked out into the woods. and i remember like watching my dad kind of disappear into the woods and i was scared because i was afraid that he would come running back out and say that he'd found her body, you know, and that is the role that you know, families take on when someone goes missing is you know they, they go out and search themselves,

the women are lice, givers, the women sometimes run a household. they're the glue to the family, a bank from a matriarchal nature lineal people. when a woman goes missing it, it completely ends the lifeline for a clan to continue. so it's, it's big, it's a big deal.

i can't figure out how to change it back to english because i was in uruguay. but a month and a half ago, how i got involved and kind of pushed into the forefront of missing and murder. indigenous women was when a young indigenous mother. when she went missing in fargo, police, they didn't jump into action when the parents went to them and told them, our daughter is missing. that just to hit all of us like just we saw the justice system fail, our community and the family. the this is 100, are the one for

person. let me just say i know we're top, hold it down while you're talking. ok, you do it now. the grand i've been trying to, i can't find a bull horn. i'll go take care of it. i'll just take care of it while you're doing you. i got this the missing and murdered indigenous march. that happens here. minneapolis was a 1st initiated by the minnesota indian women sexual assault coalition and it was just to march to bring awareness to the stuff a demick for years i've just participated. there were some incidents that had happened years prior, and we just wanted to make sure that the indigenous community could creve and more him and he'll together in a safe space. oh my god, i think this isn't a big enough venue assigned to you all guys. let's do,

let's keep them all then we can be blocked and the people need to be able to get in and out. i don't think the work that i'm doing right now is prompted on pilots that it was perpetrated upon me. somebody i care about very much, i'm just getting it by about 12 minutes and then you know, it always hits a little different when it somebody you up because for some reason we don't love ourselves as much as we love our family anyway, just i couldn't sit and do nothing is, are you able to mars? yeah, i had to get some stuff for my son. he's coming from his high school. oh, they're coming out with his indian ed class. yeah.

i'm heading to the end of my w march. and i'm thinking about my grandmother, and i'm thinking about what my family went through when she went missing, searching for her. those are the things i think about when i go to the marches to think about those women who they were as individuals, you know, who my grandma was not how she died, but who she was as a person. yeah this is the 1st time that i've been out here since i was 9 years old. my dad come home and said that my grandmother was missing and that was kind of this

like shock of like what does that mean? like how can she be missing? she's, you know, a grandma my grandmother, her name is danielle bernard, and she was my grandmother's sister about like a native way. you know, she was my grandma and she was a tiny lady. i remember her being in a wheelchair and she liked to play bingo. my uncle went to her apartments to check on her. they found her wheelchair and it was abandoned in the back of her apartment building. and it was bloody. and so do you know, it kind of leads you to believe the worst the we are we are going between your girl here with just a piece of ranger to keep it rosie. dolly

. these are all for dignitaries. the pocket, the oh, the hiring are certain and i saw it part of your face of like are you doing pretty good. going to be a great day. the

face, the as like the last fall i kept time. he almost ran into me and i was like, you can't come in here the last fall and he's like, is that how you watch the media sounds like you're not special? these people are special to me. no, no, he's out of here. but i want to know who the reporter is, because that's what i want to talk to you from here. give me that baby. jeremy and i bear in mind that the more and more people are in this fight with the shoulder to shoulder, to ensure that our native women and girls are to spare community that we are of the value that we've deserved to be seen and heard of. rejected

when i was 13 years old, i witnessed my grandmother being murdered in front of me. and i had been a victim to a sexual assault multiple times. i was living in rome, minnesota. there is a disabled vehicle. i was just trying to help them get home and they were supposed to drop me off on the way back home and they kept going. and once they passed the exit, i was like, well you can just turn right here, just take her right here or start screaming nice at home part of the vehicle and let me out. one of them said that they had a gun in the car and they would kill me. i think i kind of went into a shop to them and left the vehicle in the garage while the other one helped me down and reach me in the truck. after it was done,

he um, turned his back to me for a 2nd and i pushed them and i ran out and there is a gas station that was um, just down the hill. i ran back to the bathroom and i just sat in there and i cried . good evening. everyone of family is desperately searching for a fargo woman who is 8 months pregnant. she's been missing for more than 48 hours. now. family believes she may be in danger. many people from del court from done seed and several other cities came to help with this search. all wanting to bring comfort and peace to savannah's family. when savannah la fontaine, great. when flint missing it really hit home because it was an, a young, native american women and working mom preparing for the arrival of their daughter didn't realize how traumatic the experience was just helping with the search until i drove to north fargo one time. but yeah, this whole area with

a certain the search headquarters family and put a call to action on facebook that week. and so everybody just showed up here the, there was a young lady standing on top wireless tables shooting. she was emergency management students, they had the map of the whole area assessing at your search assignment. you just left. everybody realize the sense of urgency we were coming the river down here. so we did that until i got started. i was asked by 2 women from turn them out and if i would leave the search just following day the

when we went out to search for a sweet smell, just use it. but we also stuck small balls of seeds in our shoes. just because we didn't know what we're going to be coming across in the search. we were still hoping that she was alive, but we were still trying to prepare ourselves and, and protect ourselves the i want to welcome all of you here and thank you all for coming. we know that there have been attempted abductions, if you have or no of somebody that this has happened to in our community reach out to a trusted person might not be calling 911. it might be calling our american indian community advocate or navigator with the police department to make sure that our people are safe here. all of us have

relatives that have been impacted by this. i'm going to give a minute for us to call out those relatives. and just holler at out. it doesn't have to be one by one, just call out their name, send them some love the the me glad. we haven't forgotten them. we'll never forget them. and today is for them the

as a culture of the society as a species, we have sick theirselves into believing that be instructive and domineering is the way to be we have to learn how to live in harmony with the natural world and each other. please come here. pat montana has a population of 218 people. they have 48 registered sex offender living in that area. the structure project came through and that type of a population of 281 to be 600. the, the, the tribal community. when you look at the statistics, the men who are by sex, on average,

their middle class white men and sometimes not series construction workers are they get away from their family for extended periods of time. they have an excess in money and time because the government and the price is the government ourselves. we can't do anything about this. and this is you're going to. c a good one. so after we shut down the search headquarters, drove back to our host and salt fargo, and it wasn't even long when life breaking news came on. savannah great. when who disappeared? well 8 months pregnant was found dead wrapped in plastic in the red river. savannah le fontaine greens body was found by volunteers that were helping with the search at the time she was staying with her parents in their apartment. they stayed

in the lower level apartment and the people upstairs on the top floor were brook cruise and william hand and that couple is responsible for her death. her murder broke cruise got life and then they amended william haines sentencing to kind of be a little bit lesser i attended the hearings and heard like the, the recordings that's on the law enforcement. and it was very telling that the police officers didn't find a couple upstairs suspicious in any way. and that they had in turn put their focus on the family, told the family they couldn't go up past the 2nd floor. hearing him say, you know, like, that she always goes missing, which is completely false, but whether or not that played a part in police has implicit biased will never know the

the good morning. my name is great grandmother mary lines my story began in 1990. when my baby sister was murdered on new years eve, my daughter was missing and 1996. we were denied the opportunity to file a missing persons report. there's not a system to record accurately the number of missing and murdered women in indian country. the 1st time i testified the most helpful and motivated to see that at least somebody in my state was trying to address this here. so i told myself, i am going to go live be on behalf of this the, i'm going to share some of my story that i have it shared before the woman who gave birth to me disappeared when i was 3 years old. that funding and

so the foster care system i have my virginity taken at the age of 9 years down the road. i was born of years old. i was kidnapped. i was born i was met, was that all the way down here to saint paul, where i thought for my freedom and i kept having a good police officers. i know this because i haven't counted them could on that day when i flag down the squad card on ray street. so that's great help. didn't believe me. to a sweetheart. do you live nearby? you must be a very healthy there's a family of eagles that lives like almost straight across the lake over there. and

you can see a lot of wildlife around here. i've lived in this area for 10 years, and this is the lake that i've always looked close to since i've lived here. so i often come here and i bring tobacco to her. she remembers when you come in and talk to her this task force bell got wrapped up in one of these messy omnibus bills that also included a bill that would have creased charges against people peacefully protesting near critical infrastructure. so early it sucked um, but it had, it had to tell people to call and veto that bill sworn. i vetoed the omnibus budget bill of $985.00 pages of mostly policy, the

reservations in every sport try cities and there's nothing we can do about it every time. a lot of us government thing, we all feel it. activism we call pre, they don't remember much about the actual investigation, but i remember our family searching for her body and they knew right away who it was. it was her neighbors, son had actually just gotten out of prison for raping and murdering another woman. and you know, like within 2 weeks, my grandma, i got this thing, they caught this guy, i guess, somewhere down by sioux falls, they found blood in his truck that matched my grandma. it was actually my uncle who had went to this man in prison and asked, could you tell us where she is?

and you told him like you're going to be in prison the rest your life anyway. like can you just tell us where she is? so that we can bring her home so we can vary her. and so the guy did, he told me, i'll go where her body was. and so our family came out here where her body was discovered. there's so many women that go missing and their families don't find out where they are. they are still looking forever. how is your day good. that's good to still hon. license. maybe the fluid still down there are probably still have to throw it out and they get home around about it fargo's the largest city in north dakota and the most populated. but the native american community has always been very supportive of one another. and

a lot of us have experienced injustice within our lifetime. so that's kind of a common theme. there still really are gaps within the justice system, whether it's intentional or by design is true. you know, you hear that old saying if you're not at the table and you're on the menu, the teams really elected legislators are sworn in the office today. among the new comers is response hello, who became the 1st native american democratic movement elected in north dakota? i got sworn in december 8th of 2018. i really didn't put much thought until like what i was going to where, but i did bring my regalia just in case i bounced this question off with one of my sister friends. and i was like blazer medallion, a shell earrings or out to dress isn't she responded right away of dress. so i was

like okay, i'm going to do the update. yes. so this is a replica of my grandmas dress. this is made from a lady from back home and boundaries or i'm used to being uncomfortable or unfortunately having other people be uncomfortable by my presence or by wearing a dress or you know, even with um, being a native woman in the, in the legislature. the attacks are a little bit different. it's kind of vicious at times with the land o'lakes us getting rid of the maiden. but her maiden, i was getting attacked a lot like to the point where i had to get a new number. like i have a separate number. did i guess you could say in like the state legislature? i want to stay home. no see that?

he runs off all the other squirrels that try to come onto the street and he's like this big. yeah, so we need to napoleon it is that's the boy away face of us here. by his he's going to hang out was a friend of a friend, ordered him, a lyft to go to wherever they're going to hang out. yep. you nice. so i went to public school, insisted 10. and while it was on the reservation, you know, the public school did not provide you know, history on dakota, people in general. i did not start learning about our history until i went to college at the sister walked in college. and that's where i started to learn about how we ended up in the system on the lake traverse reservation. and so that's where

i started learning. really the details about the uprising and the outcome legislation that made it illegal for dakota, people to reside in minnesota beings separated from our homelands as part of what has caused you know, the historical trauma that her people are suffering from. i didn't understand that until i moved to minnesota and i was like, this is home. this is like my home like the reservation. that's just where they put us. so every winder in it don't reset. when i moved here to minnesota, i had access to speakers, but when i would meet somebody who spoke the language, that person would speak to me and it was like a brick wall. when up in my head, it was literally like my ears would not hear what was being said.

and i felt so bad because i was like, i'm just artist that using language in my work. like, why can i not speak to which but it was an understanding for me of that's part of my trauma. for me creating artwork that reconnects me to my culture and my language has strengthened my identity as a dakota woman. and it's part of healing from historical trauma and from being displaced from our land and being separated from our language. so much that has been done to eliminate native presence in this country. part of that is what goes into y issues like and then my w exist good afternoon, re i'm it was on a house of public safety and criminal justice reform will come to order representing corners. pretty thank you chair. i would invite missy beth,

i know to come speak now. welcome experimental. mister chairman, committee members. like to start by taking representative mary for bringing this bill forward. i think everyone in this room, everyone at this committee, everybody who can hear my voice ready now to not allow this bill to become a bargaining chip on the table at the end of session, this bill needs to go for housing before hearing miss bill needs to arrive on teams, desk needs to sign. it's been too long. we filed for this bill last year. we got it into the omnibus bill. and due to politics, we lost it, not this year. employ you please. our community for the service healing is women. deserve tests. this this is not something new. 500 years we've been waiting for this. my sisters,

my people have gone missing since european settlers. certainly i'm here and turned away when it's time for joseph. this is time for healing the church. every time to step in being on the ceilings is really painful. so i'm a secret things guy boss. but every time we testified, it seemed like there was one more woman there to share her story or to share her loved one story. there was one more person that was sitting there in the audience, holding us in their hearts. and it was just really beautiful to see the people to be able to come out and support that and to feel seen to feel heard the

. a the reality in this moment is in the fact that we are all still here. speaks to the resiliency of so many of our ancestors introduced to you another sister in this fight. she just has into the battle of the north dakota legislature as the only need a woman to serve. there we give it out for my sister representative brewed buffalo the i just want to say thank you. good people for welcoming my family, my community, my district, 27. my tribe into your home loans. it's a beautiful day and it's

a good day today. my base again. i have my daughter here with me. she's out in the crowd there. she's 17. and she is why i do this work. the many of you know, in august of 2017, a young indigenous woman went missing. savannah, la fontaine, gree, when she wasn't missing in fargo, in our backyard, so to speak right in our community. and many of us were forced to the front lines to search for her. and many of us just like you and me were big sisters and we have no choice but to take action. we didn't want to waste time convincing law enforcement that we are human meetings and that we deserve rapid response. the through the trauma that we're all so familiar with in our indigenous communities.

we took action just like you're doing today, or we formed a local task force. the task force gave me a list of legislation that they wanted to see introduce. i brought those with me to the state capital and got them successfully introduced and passed in july. so i shared that to share the possibilities and do this get within these systems and fix the systems to work for us to honor us as human beings. and then the drummer is you guys will be inside right behind his work document. it will be the rest of the curve and then i'll do the rest of the body of the march. get calls get warm your care remind tried to hit me with his van earlier. i don't appreciate that. yeah. the

before i get started, i just wanted to ask you to explain the significance of the cloth that you have on the table. the skirt was hand made by an individual by the name of agnes woodward, and they represent our missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. our sisters and the ribbon skirts also represent prayer, because we are a powerful people the hundreds of communities hold stories of choose from generation to generation. our communities know which relatives have yet to return to their families. we must have

those stories told by giving them tools and resources to do so. the members of this committee may have some additional questions for the witnesses, and we will ask you to respond to those in writing. just for my personal note, i am deeply sorry that we and congress have not addressed this for so long. it is a tragedy. it is, i said that we have done and we need to do everything we can to fix this. thank you . representative roof buffalo for running and winning your seats. you are met to serve an uninspired positive as the router work that you've already done since you've been in your state. so thank you so much for that. so members, i'm asking you to be problem solvers. i'm asking you to go green. the clerk will

take the role on the bill. but it passed to the senate. i was at home watching it on my tv. guy jumped up and i was like, yeah, good. so it was, uh, it was a great day. i think we celebrated with east side pizza that nice here at the corner of chatsworth, in summit street over chatsworth, is that that way to the, to the issue. so can you thank you for being here? it's all about the unity said these cops, not the troopers are being sold. are you the officer in charge? yes. okay. now what i've been told by or will you people do that on

the side. okay. so does like up to the bike way and can we use that fast? that'll be on you that protect yourself. yeah, you know, as well, hopefully they'll respect it. we're in ceremony. you don't interrupt praying people, well, you are in the public real data. i'm not gonna argue about it, but yeah, no, i'm saying i see your side, but i also see, you know what i sympathetic that what then we got to also be careful of what people are trying and on that where they're suppose to be pulled to take care of that. thank you. officer. thank you. you know, do you have a call or the

bodies have to deal with every day. we do that you and we deserve that healing. so that's why we're here today. the, the de madison person who had a dream force and go dresses is what this medicine man saw. so today, thing to bring the thing for all of us in a manner this loves. and this energy that we have inside of us are people here on the planet the

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