Hosted by Indigenous women Sheyahshe and Osh, We Are Resilient sheds light on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis. Through powerful storytelling, they honor lives impacted and amplify voices too often left unheard. Join them in the movement for justice and change.
In 1980, 10-year-old Michael Gann vanished without a trace from his home in Oklahoma. Despite efforts to find him, his case remains unsolved, leaving behind decades of unanswered questions. What happ…
In this episode of We Are Resilient, we delve into the mysterious disappearance of Calvin Willie Martinez, a 31-year-old Navajo man who vanished without a trace in 2019. As questions mount and answer…
Lloyd Bald Eagle, a 62 year-old Lakota man and military veteran, went missing from Rapid City, South Dakota, in November 2022. Nearly two years later, his remains were identified in October 2024, but…
Annie Mae Aquash was a Mi’kmaq activist and a powerful voice in the American Indian Movement. From her pivotal role at Wounded Knee to her tragic murder on Pine Ridge in 1975, her story remains one o…
In this mini episode, we uncover the case of Matthew Broncho, a 30-year-old member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes who vanished from Fort Hall, Idaho, in March 2019. Years later, his remains were disc…
In this episode, we cover significant developments in two emotional cases. Nearly five years after Selena Not Afraid’s disappearance, an arrest has been made, bringing new hope for justice in her cas…
In December 2017, 39-year-old Audra Willis was tragically murdered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a case that initially baffled investigators. For over a year, there were no leads, and her family was…
This Christmas Eve, we revisit the story of Janice Hannigan, a 16-year-old Yakama girl who disappeared on this very day in 1971 in Washington state. Her case remains unsolved, and her story is a somb…
In 1989, Ronald Jack, his wife Doreen and their two young sons, Russell and Ryan, vanished without a trace from Prince George, British Columbia. What began as a hopeful opportunity quickly turned int…
In 2023, a 28-year-old Pascua Yaqui woman, Wilma Acosta, embarked on an exciting new chapter by moving to Portland, Oregon, filled with hope and the promise of new beginnings. But just a few months l…
We’re excited to be back! We Are Resilient returns with more MMIP stories, and Sgili Queens is ready with fresh spooky and pop culture episodes. Catch both starting December 1 on Apple, Spotify, and …
Melissa Montoya, 42, was of the Jicarilla Apache Nation and in 2001 was living with her boyfriend in Colorado, about about 30 minutes for her hometown of Dulce, New Mexico on the Jicarilla Apache Nat…
Shauntae Marshall, 26, is a member of the Navajo Nation in Albuquerque, New Mexico who went missing in June 2024. Her family desperately needs help to find her.
Sources:
https://mmip.nmdoj.gov/dashboar…
In August 2022, 28-year-old Whisper Sellars was shot to death outside a saloon in Montana. Two years later, her killer finally had his day in court and Whisper’s family and friends finally received j…
According to the National Inquiry in Canada, Indigenous women are 12 times more likely to be murdered or go missing than any other women in Canada, and 16 times more likely than Caucasian women.
This …
In April 2024, 36 year old Utahnna Bearcomesout was out on drive with her husband and daughter in Fort Washakie, Wyoming when a tragic turn of events cost her, her life. With her husband behind bars,…
Delema Sits Poor was just 12 years old when she disappeared from Pine Ridge, South Dakota in February 1974. She and another twelve-year-old girl left Delema's home walking a back road from Oglala to …
In October, 2010, 32 year old Sumi Gail Juan, a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, disappeared without a trace. Her story, mirroring similarities with another Hoopa Valley woman, further highlights th…
On October 20, 2020, one day before her 18th birthday, Jalajhia Finklea of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe was last seen getting into a rental car driven by a Florida man near her mother’s home in New Be…
In 2017, the body of 21-year-old Ci’Lina Deloney was found on a Comanche Country Road in Oklahoma. Known to her family and friends as CiCi, her murder remains unsolved and her family struggles with g…