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In the United States, Alaska, Canada, and Mexico, Indigenous women have been taken from their homes and never heard from again. In many cases, women, and girls: mothers, daughter, aunties, and sisters have simply vanished without a trace. Many have never been found or sadly, their remains have been found. Families on reservations have no closure; not knowing for sure what happened to their loved one is like a wound that never heals but continues to fester.
This book is a collection of poems and a short story dealing with the plight of MMIW. The story is a work of fiction with three protagonists are strong women of the Blackfoot Nation in Montana: Agnes, Mary, and Dani. Tragedy has hit this family very hard: when Agnes is taken ten years prior and then in 2023 Dani not long after her high school graduation. Mary is left to lead the fight to find her missing loved ones. The story follows Mary on her path to find her loved ones. Her search has her fighting a bureaucracy of tribal, city, county. State, and federal jurisdictions, none of whom are communicating with each other. Worse than that is a nationwide epidemic of apathy: they’re Indians, what happens on the rez stays on the rez. Mary’s journey takes her across the United States to the Middle East. With the help of ‘the brothers’, Mary (is a warrior) soldiers on fighting against time before Dani’s case goes cold. |
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