sovereignty and safety for native women and children carry coffer member of the clinic, tribe of south east alaska, and national indigenous women's resource center, senior native affairs advisor. thank you both for joining me on that front. mary katherine, in recent years, thousands of native american women have been reported missing law enforcement is often sorta react and families are often left waiting months for answers. and they're often dismissed and told they're going missing isn't a crime. what's the route of this crisis? you know, such an important question and i think we have to understand that this crisis is both cultural and legal in nature. i say cultural because violence against native women is the practice that began with the colonial conquest of the united states. i mean, all you have to do is read christopher columbus, his journals to understand that this is a man who literally bragged about raping and murdering indigenous women when he got lost and washed up on the shoreline over here. so you've got that. you've got the history of the u. s. military using rape and homicide agains