Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 55:57 — 38.4MB) | Embed
The disproportionately high number of unsolved cases for missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP) inspired Haley Omeasoo to launch a research lab on the Blackfeet Nation’s Montana reservation. Ohkomi Forensics offers tribal police and other law enforcement agencies scientific data in an attempt to make connections with current and past investigations. It’s one of the ways Native advocates all over the country are working to fill gaps to improve the troubling statistics for Native crime victims.
GUESTS
Haley Omeasoo (enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe and Blackfeet Nation descent), executive director and president of Ohkomi Forensics
Eleanore Sunchild (Thunderchild First Nation), Indigenous human rights attorney with Sunchild Law
Bree R Black Horse (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma), MMIP Assistant United States Attorney for the Northwest Regions
Melissa Skeet (Diné), endurance roller skater
Break 1 Music: Remember Me (song) Fawn Wood (artist) Kikāwiynaw (album)
Break 2 Music: I Am the Beginning and the End (song) Dorothy Tsatoke (artist) Native American Healing Songs Come to me Great Mystery
Yes, it is definitely disturbing to me. I am a white woman that had an uncle that married a full blooded Indian. He ended up moving to the rese ationThey had like 7 children and also fostered quite a few.