Humboldt County Yurok Tribe Grapples with California’s Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

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🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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“In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who’s gone missing or been murdered,” begins LA Times reporter Hannah Wiley’s reporting on the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in California. The Sovereign Bodies Institute reports that at least 183 indigenous women and girls have disappeared or were murdered in California, a figure it says could be many times higher owing to incomplete data. Their disappearances are part of the legacy of anti-Indigenous violence, experts say, and perpetuate cycles of generational trauma. We hear how Northern California’s Yurok Tribe is addressing the crisis and trying to achieve justice for those who have disappeared in their own community and nationwide. Guests: Hannah Wiley, politics reporter, Los Angeles Times Honorable Abby Abinanti, chief judge, the Yurok Tribal Court Blythe K. George, associate professor of sociology, UC Merced; member of the Yurok Tribe Chief Greg O'Rourke, chief of police, Yurok Tribal Police Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.4	Coming up on forum, California tribes, they struggle with a high rate of people who've gone missing or are murdered, especially women and girls. For the Urock tribe along the state's North Coast, one of those missing women is Emily Ristling, a mother of two, who was last seen in October of 2021.
1:11.3	The Los Angeles Times Hannah Wiley spent months reporting on the tribal community and tracing
1:16.1	the generational trauma that contributed to Riesling and other women ending up in a missing
1:21.0	person file.
1:22.7	She joins us along with members of the Urock Tribe and the tribal police chief investigating
1:26.7	Ristling's disappearance after this news.
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1:39.3	In her reporting on the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women in California,
1:44.5	LA Times reporter Hannah Wiley writes,
1:47.0	In Indian Country, everybody seems to know somebody who's gone missing or been murdered.
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