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Several violent events in Native America were recently put in the national spotlight. Two Native Americans, Rexdale Henry and Sarah Lee Circle Bear, died while in police custody. A shooting on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana and one on Wind River Reservation in Wyoming left family and community members in shock. What do you think is needed to make our communities safer? How can communities heal after violent crimes?

 Guests:

LeMoine LaPointe (Sicangu Lakota) – coordinator for the Indigenizing Crisis Intervention Teams in Indian Country Initiative

Chante Hart (Rosebud Sioux) – student, mother, and community organizer

 

Break Music: Honoring The Homeland (song) Radmilla & Herman Cody (artist) Shi Kéyah (album)