MISSING: Nevaeh Kingbird

Dateline: Missing In America

NBC News

True Crime

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On October 22, 2021, 15-year-old Nevaeh Kingbird, a member of the Red Lake Nation, left her family’s house in Bemidji, Minnesota at around 1 a.m. At 2 a.m. she left another home in a nearby trailer park. She was last seen in the Nymore neighborhood of Bemidji. Andrea Canning talks to Nevaeh’s mother, Teddi Wind, her sister, Lakaylee, her uncle Daniel Wind, and Indigenous missing persons advocate Lissa Yellow Bird Chase. Nevaeh was 5’4” and weighed 120 lbs. at the time of her disappearance. She has brown eyes and dark brown hair with blonde highlights. She has two scars: one on her left eyebrow, another on her left thigh. If you have information on Neveah’s case call the Bemidji Police tip line at 218-333-9111 or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE LOST.

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0:00.0	It's just after dawn and people are climbing out of their trucks.
0:11.0	It's so cold, they can see their breath.
0:13.5	They got word on Facebook to meet at the Eagles Club.
0:17.2	They've got miles to walk before sundown.
0:20.3	Probably everybody showed up.
0:23.3	They set out across the south end of Bemidji.
0:26.1	It's a small city in northern Minnesota that sits near three Native American reservists
0:29.9	and hugs the lake with the same name.
0:33.1	They're here to follow this man, Daniel Wind.
0:36.7	I'm not going to quit.
0:38.4	Uncle's going to find her.
0:40.1	He's looking for any sign of his 15-year-old niece, Naveya.
0:44.2	If she's out there, you know, we got to find her.
0:47.7	In the winter of 2021, Daniel and dozens of volunteers spent days on end searching for her,
0:53.9	hiking through woods and brush and along railroad tracks.
0:57.8	I still got a few miles yet to go.
1:01.8	Teddy Wind is Daniel's sister and Naveya's mother.
1:05.4	I couldn't feel the cold.
1:07.3	I couldn't even feel if I walked four miles that day.
1:12.0	The dinner bothered me because I was looking for my child.
1:15.9	Naveya is still missing, but Teddy has seen her in her dreams.
1:20.0	A girl with a cheeky smile and a blonde streak in her dark hair.
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