We Are Resilient: An MMIP True Crime Podcast

In August 2012, after checking out of rehab, 28-year-old Heather Cameron received a ride from an ex-boyfriend and was never heard from again. A member of the Grand Ronde Tribe, she had moved to North…

In January 2006, the body of 18-year-old Tamara Susan Seay was discovered in the woods of the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. An enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she …

In the 1980s and 1990s, at least 14 Indigenous women were murdered in cases that remain unsolved or died under mysterious circumstances on the Yakima reservation in Washington. Daisy Mae Heath was 29…

In 1979, Keara Lee Coshow’s death has remained one of Iowa’s most tragic cold cases. She has endured more abuse, trauma, and neglect in her three short years on earth than most people would in a life…

Cheyenne Toineeta, a 30-year-old member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, died under mysterious circumstances in December 2015. Her case remains unsolved.

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Tanya Begay, a 36-year-old Navajo woman, vanished in March of 2017 in Tohatchi, New Mexico, when she was last seen with her then-boyfriend Jason Alan Thornburg, also known as the Tarrant County Seria…

In September 2009, 17-year-old Stacy Hill vanished on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota, only for her remains to be discovered a month later with no clues as to what happened. Now, 13 year…

In 1978, the body of 20-year-old Iris Whistling Elk was discovered in a ditch just outside the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Her death ruled an accident, and her family believes she was m…

Janice Hannigan was only 16 when she mysteriously vanished on Christmas Eve in 1971. Born on the Yakama Indian Reservation in Washington, Janice's case is the state's oldest reported MMIW cold case.

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Maggie talks with us, in the last mini this week, about the inequity of media coverage when it comes to MMIW and questions what makes the media decide whose story is worth sharing.

Nancy Grace Analoa…

Mildred Alexis Old Crow was just six years old when she was reported missing in November 2020 on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. Her body would be discovered a few months later, and yet the q…

Today's mini takes us to Canada and covers the ongoing case of an alleged serial killer in Winnipeg who spent the earlier part of 2022 targeting Indigenous women. As we still await more details regar…

Join us for a special episode as we discuss the tragic life story of Matoaka, a young woman known to the world as Pocahontas.

Sources:

https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2007/07/pocahontas-saves-john-sm…

In August 2003, 19-year-old Sonya Ivanoff left home with her best friend in Nome, Alaska, for a night out of fun. Two days later, her lifeless body would be discovered, and the following investigatio…

Rita Papakee is one of the first instances of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) experienced by the Meskwaki Nation, also known as the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. She was …

Thank you again to Western Carolina University and the Bardo Arts Center for inviting us to record on location at their beautiful MMIW exhibit, and thank you to everyone who came to see us!  It was t…

In August 2022, a weekend altercation at a bar in Montana escalated into the death of 28-year-old Whisper Sellars. While this case is still ongoing, with multiple conflicting witness testimonies and …

Vanessa Yvette Niko, 35, was a member of the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe in Upper Lake, California. She had a tumultuous on-off relationship with the father of three of her children, Willy T…

In June 2022, the body of Mavis Nelson, 56, was found less than a mile from where she lived in Seattle, Washington. Mavis' last contact with her was in April 2022 and for three months, her sister was…

In September 2018, Ashley Johnson Barr decided to go to the park near her home in Kotzebue, Alaska. She never returned home that day, and her body would be discovered eight days later. She was only t…