This particular evening my niece decided to sneak out of the house to go to a party and my daughter Samantha did not want her to get in trouble so she get out of the house to go find her.

Four white males in a black SUV with leather interior for white males in this vehicle trying to get my daughter to go party with them and she says no and she starts walking faster.

And they were being more persistence

because they were just rolling along the sidewalk with her.

And then she just takes off running.

The vehicle stopped, two men jump out, they chase her down, and they

pull her into that vehicle. And while one was driving, two held her down and

a third one raped her. They had on bandanas, they had used a condom, so this was premeditated rape. And they threw her out by a bridge.

It hasn't changed. Violence and that targeted violence and being hunted as native people,

especially as Native women,

has not changed in over 500 years.

Even though we're only approximately 2% of the population,

we are trafficked, murdered, and raped at five to ten times the

national rate. The length of time it's been a problem goes back to when Columbus arrived. Columbus is the first

known sex trafficker among Native American indigenous people.

Every year hundreds of young Native American women and girls go missing from reservations as well as cities across the United States and Canada.

Some are runaways, some are taken. Some of them return. Others are never found.

Murder is the third leading cause of death among Native women.

I'm Leandro Nefin of the Omaha tribe of Nebraska. I was born and raised on the Omaha Indian Reservation located in the northeast corner of Nebraska.

Istashundi Waaubadi, Umaha I jage we witt that they,

Amabadagadi. I'm a Thunder Clan woman and I belong to the Sky People.

My Omaha name means coming of a beautiful day. I am also a trauma therapist working

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