Unsolved Podcast: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

The disappearance of Native American women in the U.S. is a crisis that’s been ignored for decades.

Native American women are killed and go missing at 10 times the national average, but only 2%of these cases receive federal attention and less than 5% get some kind of national media attention.

But tribes here in northern Michigan are working to change that. The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians recently held red shirt day in an effort to draw attention to the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women.

The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women has plagued Native American tribes for years, but the hope is events like this help bring about much needed change.