301: No More Stolen Sisters. Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 2021, the world was captivated by the story of Gabby Petito, a young woman who went missing and was later found murdered in Wyoming. While her story is heartbreaking, the widespread media coverage concerning her case revealed something equally disturbing - the disproportionate attention to cases of missing young, conventionally attractive white women, compared to cases involving missing people of color, particularly those of Indigenous women. In honor of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness month we bring attention to two Indigenous women whose stories did not receive the same media attention as Gabby’s (and others like her), but are deserved of equal recognition and remembrance.

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Sources:

Book: Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable

Articles: NBC Insider, CNN, The New Yorker, UAB Institute for Human Rights Blog, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Grand Forks Herald, Cahuilla Consortium, Valley News Live, Fox 13 News, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Dover NH, Common Dreams

Reports: A Place Where It Feels Like Home, The Story of Tina Fontaine, National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

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0:00.0	Every once in a while, the story of a missing person's case goes viral on the internet and in the eye of the media.
0:09.0	When it does, the nation becomes completely engrossed in their stories' twists and turns.
0:15.0	We refresh our news feeds and social media pages to stay in the loop.
0:19.0	We check for updates or developments.
0:21.6	We learn the minute details of the story, begin to truly care about the missing person,
0:26.6	and worry for them as if they were a member of our own family or an integral part of our circle.
0:33.6	Some people even take it upon themselves to try and jump in themselves and utilize their amateur sleuth skills to help the case along.
0:41.9	People across the country learn the victim's name and talk about their case around dinner tables and at coffee shops, with their closest friends or with complete strangers.
0:53.0	But we seldom stop to consider why we are hearing this story,
0:57.8	or pause to consider whose stories we are not hearing. Underneath the true crime documentaries,
1:03.9	social media content, and news stories, there is a broader, deeper, and more twisted
1:08.8	story of race and power that determines whose stories
1:12.4	are being paid attention to. Some people's lives are fought and searched for, but for others,
1:18.2	it is hauntingly easy to disappear. Welcome to National Park After Dark. Hello everyone. Hello, everyone, welcome back. I'm Cassie. And I'm Danielle. And Danielle has a true crime story for us today.
1:55.2	I, not only do I have a true crime story, I have a story that I said I would, we both jointly said we would never do.
2:03.3	Yeah. And and here we are. In a way, I'm still not doing it. I'm only doing it because it serves as a
2:12.1	really important foundation for the other stories I want to share today. So, of course, if you read the title of this episode, then you know that Gabby Petito is
2:24.7	involved in today's episode.
2:27.1	But it's going to be in a way that hopefully is in a way that is refreshing and new and gives a different perspective.
2:37.4	And just as a little bit of backstory, so Gabby's case happened in the summer of 2021 or unfolded at that time.
2:47.3	And Cassie and I started National Park After Dark in January of 2021. So this was like
2:53.1	roughly six to eight months after our very first episode. And we received hundreds of requests
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