This week's podcast recommendation is Island Crime Season 1, Where Is Alisa?

This podcast investigates the disappearance of Lisa Marie Young, a 21-year-old Indigenous woman

who went missing after leaving a house party on Vancouver Island. Stay tuned to the end of the

episode for a promo and subscribe to Where Is Alisa in your favorite podcast app.

Today's episode does deal with sexual assault, as always I will not be graphic about it,

but listener discretion is advised.

In 1984 12-year-old Sharon Bald Eagle disappeared. Unlike most long-term missing children's cases,

we know who kidnapped her. And when the man gave a convoluted story about what exactly happened,

he opened up a search area from Texas to Wyoming and everywhere in between.

I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Welcome to the third Thursday series every third Thursday of the month. I cover another missing

or murdered Indigenous persons case. This month's case is going to take us on a journey because

I started with the missing persons case, but this grew because the culprit in this case is a suspect

in a number of other cases. But the story starts with the kidnapping of Sharon Bald Eagle and her

friend, so that's where we are going to start. Sharon grew up in Eagle butte South Dakota.

This is the tribal headquarters of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe and is located on the Cheyenne

River Indian reservation. Though the tribal name and the reservation name both have the word Cheyenne

in them, they are not Cheyenne. It's named for the Cheyenne River which runs south of the

reservation. Sharon is Lakota though I don't know which tribal band that information isn't out there.

So the way this works is that Sioux is what you could think of as an umbrella term for tribes that

speak the language. Then we divide this into three tribes based on the dialect of Sioux they speak,

the Lakota Dakota and Dakota. So basically everyone who is Lakota is also Sioux but not everyone who

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