Hello listeners, I'm your host Amara, and this is Black Girl God, a true crime podcast.

On this episode of Black Girl Gone, we tell the story of Rosetta Strong, a 31-year-old mother

of four who disappeared in 2018 from top of Nishwashed.

Rosetta left her sister's home to go to a casino with friends, but was never seen or heard from again.

Nearly 300 days after Rosetta was last seen, her remains were found.

Three years later, her family is still trying to find out what happened.

This is Rosetta's story.

When I started this podcast, I knew that cases involving missing in murder black women and women of color were under-reported.

But what I didn't realize was how under-reported they actually are.

It wasn't until I started doing research for these shows that I realized that this under-reporting, coupled with some very deep-rooted systemic issues, also affects native women and their stories.

And so doing Rosetta's story is important because indigenous women are also being murdered and going missing at extremely high rates.

But these cases receive even less coverage by the media.

The fact is that most of these crimes take place on reservations, and the media doesn't pay much attention to what's going on there.

These reservations also have very limited police resources, and they often need support from the local counties or FBI to assist in these investigations.

But for 99% of these cases, no one pays very much attention, including the police.

In 2018, Rosetta Strong was living in Wapato, Washington.

The mother of four was living with her sister Sissy at the time.

Now, there isn't much public information about Rosetta's early life, but she and her siblings had grown up in Yakima County in Washington state.

And Yakima County is where the Yakima Indian Reservation is located.

Rosendo was a citizen of the Confederate tribes, the Umatila Indian Reservation.

The Yakima Indian Reservation includes the communities of Wapato and Tapanish.

Now, the combined population of these two areas is around 15,000 people.

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