with us, amara cofer, host and executive producer of the podcast black girl gone. with reporter melissa jeltsen, who covers violence against women. and mary kathryn nagle is a citizen of cherokee nation and a partner at pipestem & nagle law, law firm dedicated to the restoration of tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction. democracy now! we welcomedemocracy now! you all to mary kathryn nagle, let's begin with you. >> first and foremost come out hearts are with gabby's family. no one should ever have to lose a loved one in this manner. horribly tragic but i think what it brings up for a lot of our native families who have lost loved ones is the complete disparity, thebvious is very between how the fbi behaves when a white woman behaves and when a nati woman goes missing. when a native woman goes missing , and thousands to every year, the fbi did not do nothg. i often times families are told its not a crime. oftentimes the fbi's only law enforcement agency with jurisdiction to investigate because it is complicated, but in 1978, the supreme court limited to tribal or juris