MissingFlowers: Missing Murdered Indigenous Women & Men

11/11/2021

Taboo~BlackEyed Peas~For Leonard Peltier

Taboo~BlackEyed Peas~For Leonard Peltier

11/08/2021

Lander County, Nevada

Unidentified American Indian/Alaska Native Female

NamUs #UP7532

Date Found: February 25, 1990

Estimated Age Group
Adult - Pre 40

Estimated Age Range (Years)
28-38

Estimated Year of Death
1990

Estimated PMI
6 Months

Height
5' 5"(65 inches) , Measured

Weight
Cannot Estimate

Head Hair Description
Long dark hair

Eye Color
Unknown

Clothing and Accessories

Jewelry
One white metal ring with red and blue stone(s)

Hand crafted sterling silver ring with turquoise and coral triangular shaped stones inlaid in an alternating pattern, size 7.5 to 8.
-On the Body

Inventory of Remains
Torso not recovered

Condition of Remains
Not recognizable - Partial skeletal parts only

Circumstances of Recovery
On 02/25/1990 at approximately 1145 hours, hikers discovered the skeletal remains of the decedent. Remains were found one mile east of Hilltop Road. From I-80 and Combs Canyon Road and Hilltop Road, the body was 16.8 miles near the fork in the road next to an old mine. Anthropology consultation revealed dismemberment and possible multiple blows to the head, unsure if this was ante or postmortem. The remains showed evidence of postmortem “sawing.”

Investigating Agency

ME/C Case Number
236-90

Lander County Sheriff's Office
Agency Case Number
CR6296-90

Contact NamUs
The Regional Program Specialist contact for this case is Dustin Driscoll
* (817) 240-4106
* [email protected]

NamUs #UP7532

NamUs Case Created
August 6, 2010

GPS Coordinates According to NamUs

40°03'03.6"N 116°59'06.9"W

https://www.namus.gov/UnidentifiedPersons/Case#/7532/details

http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/2016/08/lander-county-jane-doe-discovered-in.html?m=1

https://dps.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dpsnvgov/content/Citizen/NVRCFemaleUnidentifiedDeadUnsolvedHomicides.pdf

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/unsolved-homicides-and-missing-persons-project/amp/

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/usedtobedoe/nvf900225-february-25-1990-t31363.html

https://www.facebook.com/110100133841022/posts/132660781584957/?d=n

11/06/2021

A Wampanoag retelling of Thanksgiving

A Wampanoag retelling of Thanksgiving

A Wampanoag citizen retells us the true story about the first meeting between the Wampanoag people and the pilgrims. Plus, more on the handful of Native people who ran for public office in Tuesday’s election

11/05/2021

Photos from Martha Redbone's post

11/05/2021

This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later

This tribe helped the Pilgrims survive for their first Thanksgiving. They still regret it 400 years later

The Wampanoag tribe, which helped the starving Pilgrims survive, has long been misrepresented in the American story. As the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving nears, the tribe points out that most of what we heard in grade school is...

11/05/2021

Who is Helen Doe, unidentified Native American female with feather earring, hitchiker and victim of truck collision that caught fire on May 14,1991? Before accident truck passed through Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Washington State authorities travel now through Kansas searching for cold case clues
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Kalama, #Washington - Nearly 30 years have gone by since a fatal collision in Washington State took the lives of a Missouri truck driver and his still unidentified, unauthorized female passenger.

The Washington State Patrol Cold Case Team sent a representative to follow the presumed route from Missouri to Washington, by using fuel purchase records to determine the most likely route.

There were two fuel stops in Missouri, and then a gap of more than 24 hours and more than 500 miles until the next known fuel stop in Limon Colorado.

Washington State Patrol representatives are stopping at gas stations and rest stops along a westbound route through Kansas, posting flyers asking for anyone with information to please reach out to them.

“A family is missing their loved one, and we really want to give her a name, and that’s why we’re doing this now and we’ll continue to do this. We may be talking again in ten more years. hopefully not.” Washington State Patrol, Program Manager/WA State AMBER Coordinator, Carri Gordon says.

Representatives of the Kansas Bureau of Investigations Missing persons/human trafficking division met with the Washington State Patrol at Sapp Bros truck stop in Junction City, Kansas to assist with placing the flyer inside the business.

If you have any information regarding this case, please contact the Washington State Patrol Cold Case Team at 425-401-7740.

If you have information which could help to identify this woman, you can call also the Kansas Bureau of Investigations Missing Persons Tip Line at 785-296-4017.
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She was a passenger in a semi-truck headed south on I-5 near Kalama, nestled in the shadow of Mount St. Helens. That day — May 14, 1991 — there was a backup on the freeway. The semi was going full speed, but the driver wasn’t able to stop and slammed into the rear-end of a paper-hauling truck blocked by the backup.

“The vehicle immediately burst into flames,” Washington State Patrol Detective Sgt. Stacy Moate told KOIN 6 News recently. “The fuel tanks ruptured and it just kept growing from there.”

Both the driver — 26-year-old Lester Harvel of Missouri — and his passenger died.

“There were many people that tried to get in to help the driver and the passenger and they were just unable to.”

“The trucking company had no record of an authorized passenger to be in the (truck) that day. So we assume that the truck driver had picked her up somewhere along his route,” Moate said.

Investigators believe Harvel picked her up as a hitchhiker or at a rest area somewhere along the way, but they haven’t been able to figure out when or where. They mapped his fuel receipts over the one-week trip: Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

Helen Doe was likely a Native American woman in her 20s. Witnesses said she had a long, dark ponytail and a feather earring, was wearing a black vest and had multiple rings on her fingers. She had “a very long, slender nose and her face was very slender as well,” Murry said. There was a space between her bottom 2 front teeth, and she likely walked with a limp from scoliosis.

https://www.wibw.com/2020/07/29/washington-state-authorities-travel-through-kansas-searching-for-cold-case-clues/

11/02/2021

The Lewis and Clark expedition from an Indigenous perspective

The Lewis and Clark expedition from an Indigenous perspective

New federal-tribal partnership will deepen the Corps of Discovery journey with stories from the many tribes who helped the explorers find their way

11/02/2021

11/02/2021

How the US stole thousands of Native American children

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqWRyBCHhw&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR2x9TDrguxJlaKwKMnfQ1d1ritTWoIPH0sRwb7ppLPLw4IbyIr7-AKSP7I

The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”.Help our reporting on hidden histories. Submit a story idea here: http://b...

11/02/2021

Resistance at the residential school: Survivors recall 3 hours of freedom in little-known riot

https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/docproject/residential-school-riot?fbclid=IwAR22HzIgSVdY-XDFzhoxuhrNTr5MQm9x0bY0j7XHyv3lJ1twth1HiAvewao

One evening 60 years ago, some 100 students at the Edmonton Indian Residential School took control in an all-out act of defiance.

11/01/2021

It would benefit nearly every person in the US to read An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. This was one of the most important books that I have ever read.

Most of you have realized that the history we were taught in school is incomplete. United States history was mostly written by white men for the benefit of white men and white society. Unfortunately the "history" most of us are raised on is not only incomplete, it is an all-out lie.

Reading this book is an important step in removing these fallacies that have become deeply ingrained into our brains and overcoming them with truth. This truth hurts. It's not easy to read. But if we are to create a society that is equitable and just, it is absolutely imperative to understand the foundation of what we currently call the United States.

This nation was founded on genocide, murder, slavery, lying, manipulating and delusion... It was not a war that "won this nation." It was not "fairly purchased." It was stolen with atrocious tactics by both the government and many citizens.

For those thinking they don't want to dwell on the past... Well, this isn't the past. This is the present. This "history" has not only been continuing during our lifetime, but the past forms the present. We will never understand the present and live honestly, if we do not understand the foundation of our existence as we know it.

Read this book. Educate yourself. And then change your life to abolish the lies and live for equity, justice and regeneration.
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Written by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Published by Beacon Press as part of their ReVisioning History series "of accessibly written books by notable scholars that reconstruct and reinterpret US history from diverse perspectives."
www.beacon.org/An-Indigenous-Peoples-History-of-the-United-States-P1164.aspx
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More books I recommend: www.robgreenfield.org/books

10/29/2021

Dinosaur addresses the United Nations about extinction

Dinosaur addresses the United Nations about extinction

10/29/2021

Last 4 living descendants of Sitting Bull identified with DNA testing

https://nypost.com/2021/10/28/last-4-living-sitting-bull-descendants-identified-with-dna-testing/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site+buttons&utm_campaign=site+buttons&fbclid=IwAR1d5oKYVg0YfTxW38XGSU7irpMTOlNHHIcYXzaESMJhSP6HyL5espFYIjw

South Dakota author Ernie LaPointe has spent 14 years trying to prove his historic progeny.

10/28/2021

Melissa S***t plans 300-mile skating trip across Navajo Nation for MMIW awareness

https://www.nhonews.com/news/2021/oct/26/melissa-skeet-plans-300-mile-skating-trip-across-/?fbclid=IwAR07m7hcCuGC1fteO0IcL0qHdMxR6SVSbCjU_gBhNVbhZVFaiz0CKT-89nU

Former roller derby athlete Melissa S***t, known as S***t Fighter, is roller skating more than 300 miles, from Window Rock to Flagstaff and back (the length of The Long Walk) to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women, children and two-spirit people.

10/27/2021

10/25/2021

Site of ‘Great Swamp Massacre’ returned to Narragansett Indian Tribe

https://thepublicsradio.org/article/site-of-great-swamp-massacre-returned-to-narragansett-indian-tribe

The site where English colonists massacred hundreds of Narragansett Indians more than 345 years ago has officially been returned to the tribe in a land transfer that’s being described as monumental.

10/22/2021

A Star of ‘Reservation Dogs’ Breaks Barriers

A Star of ‘Reservation Dogs’ Breaks Barriers

Paulina Alexis, an Indigenous Canadian actress, also appears in the next “Ghostbusters” movie.

10/22/2021

Photos from Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer's post

10/21/2021

10/16/2021

FBI offers $10,000 reward for information on the disappearance of Native American woman

FBI offers $10,000 reward for information on the disappearance of Native American woman

The FBI has announced a reward for information on Mary Johnson, a Native American woman who went missing from the Tulalip Reservation in Washington state in December 2020.

10/16/2021

Protect the Indian Child Welfare Act - Tell Biden to Step Up

Protect the Indian Child Welfare Act - Tell Biden to Step Up

10/15/2021

Native Americans Respond to "Christopher Columbus"

Native Americans Respond to "Christopher Columbus"

10/15/2021

WOMAN STUFFS 5-YEAR-OLD IN TRUNK OF CAR

WOMAN STUFFS 5-YEAR-OLD IN TRUNK OF CAR

10/14/2021

Biden administration is under fire #PeopleVsFossilFuels

Biden administration is under fire #PeopleVsFossilFuels

10/14/2021

Fending for himself: As winter closes in, isolated elder chops wood, survives - Navajo Times

Fending for himself: As winter closes in, isolated elder chops wood, survives - Navajo Times

At the center of what could be a cozy, warm 70-year-old hogan is a seven-foot log that keeps the roof from caving in on everything Harrison Kee owns.

10/14/2021

10/14/2021

Holbrook Police are asking for the public's help in locating the person pictured below. Candace Manuelito (31) was last seen in Holbrook on Friday, September 17, 2021 at 3PM. She was wearing the shirt and jacket pictured and also wearing khaki pants and carrying a blue and yellow bag/or black and yellow bag. If seen or if you have any information, please contact the Holbrook Police Department at 928-524-3991 or [email protected]

10/13/2021

AOC Opens Up About Seeking Therapy After Capitol Attack

AOC Opens Up About Seeking Therapy After Capitol Attack

10/13/2021

Dozens of interfaith environmental activists arrested protesting outside White House``

Dozens of interfaith environmental activists arrested protesting outside White House``

10/05/2021

Missing Child - Jeremy Jourdain

Missing Child - Jeremy Jourdain

10/05/2021

Army to begin returning the ‘unknowns’ at Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Army to begin returning the ‘unknowns’ at Carlisle Indian Industrial School

CARLISLE, Pa.—Mary Kininnook was one of nearly 200 children who died and were buried while students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the nation’s first off-reservation Indian Boarding School. But you wouldn’t know it by scouring the graveyard at the former school grounds.

10/05/2021

Wanbdi Wakita, Portage La Prairie Residential School

Wanbdi Wakita, Portage La Prairie Residential School

10/03/2021

After 58 years of searching, a residential school survivor finds her baby brother's grave | CBC News

After 58 years of searching, a residential school survivor finds her baby brother's grave | CBC News

That last time Eliza Beardy saw her baby brother Isaias Harper was in 1955, when she was taken from her home in Garden Hill First Nation to the Norway House Indian Residential School.

10/02/2021

Why Do Some Missing Women Get More Media Coverage Than Others?

Why Do Some Missing Women Get More Media Coverage Than Others?

09/28/2021

Manitoba, BC Canada

Kendara Ballantine, age 18 years old when she was last seen alive on the afternoon of July 18th, 2019 walking down Cathedral Avenue in The Pas, Manitoba. She was reported missing and the community was told she could be traveling to Winnipeg. Tragically, Kendara was found deceased near University College of the North in The Pas on August 6th, 2019. Her cause of death has not been released to the public.
Kendara was small in stature but possessed a big personality and had a very giving and kind heart. Her family and community continue to urge for justice in her case and for her and other MMIW to not go forgotten.
Kendara's death remains unsolved.
If you have any information regarding the death of Kendara Ballantyne, you are encouraged to contact the Thompson RCMP at (204)677-6909.

#MissingFlowersMMIWM #MMIWawareness #SayHerName

Manitoba, BC Canada

Kendara Ballantine, age 18 years old when she was last seen alive on the afternoon of July 18th, 2019 walking down Cathedral Avenue in The Pas, Manitoba. She was reported missing and the community was told she could be traveling to Winnipeg. Tragically, Kendara was found deceased near University College of the North in The Pas on August 6th, 2019. Her cause of death has not been released to the public.
Kendara was small in stature but possessed a big personality and had a very giving and kind heart. Her family and community continue to urge for justice in her case and for her and other MMIW to not go forgotten.
Kendara's death remains unsolved.
If you have any information regarding the death of Kendara Ballantyne, you are encouraged to contact the Thompson RCMP at (204)677-6909.

#MissingFlowersMMIWM #MMIWawareness #SayHerName