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  Missing and murdered Indigenous women
context: Twenty-one of them are between the ages of 13 and 17, with one 9 y/o in the mix.
  Edit: After a little googling it sounds like the 9y/o is a case of familial abduction. I’m not sure about the other ones. It’s going to take me a while to look up all the names.
  Edit #2: I’ve searched about six or seven names so far and they all lead back to either this article or the SD missing persons website which only seems to list physical descriptions and last known clothing worn. >
  
  In 21 days there are 21 kids missing? That’s terrifying. >
  
  
  In 21 days there are 21 kids missing? That’s terrifying.
  
  Especially in a place of such low population >
  
  There's only like, 4 or 5 people left in the state at this point. >
  
  Statistically, the perpetrator is likely a cow. >
  
  That's udderly impossible >
  
  Y’all are gonna milk this for all its worth. >
  
  You can cownt on that >
  
  Sounds cud to me. >
  
  Enough of the bovine puns - time to mooove on with our lives. >
  
  The book Yellow Bird is set in ND not SD but has some great context for how difficult it is for native people to be found and get justice once missing. The titular Lissa Yellow Bird also does a This American Life episode where she details her search for her missing niece as a civilian. Super sad/scary and interesting >
  
  The movie Wind River is similar but set in Montana. It’s heartbreaking that this is a reality.
  Edit: it’s actually Wyoming and not Montana >
  
  Wind River takes place on the Wind River Reservation which is in Wyoming. >
  
  You’re so right! My bad! >
  
  31 in January 2023. That’s more than November and December 2022 combined. This is crazy! Most are young, where did they all go? Surely someone has to know something. Aren’t these mostly all small communities? Also some of the names are very interesting, Respects Nothing, and Bad Milk. >
  
  According to the SD Attorney General website, 1780 children were reported missing in SD in 2022. That would be on average 148 a month. So 30 so far for this month would be well below the monthly average. (Actually, it's less than 30 because a few of them were adults). I'm guessing way less kids run away from home in the cold winter months. Just a guess though. >
  
  This. It’s unconscionable. And as a father, it breaks my heart. >
  
  Um, you’re trying to find fault where there is none. As a father, I feel the responsibility to ensure my wife, children and extended family, for that matter, are safe as well as ensuring their future success. 
  As a human being, it breaks my heart to see injustice and abuse. I wouldn’t be any less sympathetic if I didn’t have a daughter, wife, or a mother. >
  
  Being a father (or mother) amplifies that feeling of disgust, empathy, and dred when you read these articles.   Before I had kids, I would feel sadness and rage reading about these things.  Now that I have children, there is a deeper, more primal feeling attached to that sadness and rage.  I don't understand why people infer that we didn't care about these things before having children. >
  
  The Native American population has always had an inordinate number of missing persons. Many young woman, and depending on where they disappear, it may or may not be investigated. >
  
  I totally noticed the numbers of indigenous people on that list.  When you think population size compared to the the rest of the state, I don’t understand how it’s not more in the public awareness. >
  
  Imagine if a kid disappeared every day in your area. Is the national media covering this one hopes? >
  
  And most of these are in Rapid City, which isn’t a major metropolitan. It has a pop of like 75,000 people. >
  
  Rapid City is infamous for its racism against Native Americans. Its pretty near the Pine Ridge Reservation which is one of the larger reservations and one with a lot of very important history fighting genocidal politics >
  
  People seem to overlook these basic facts. Thank you for posting about this. >
  
  Only 5 are over the age of 21. >
  
  This is so disturbing. There are so many terrible things happening all the time >
  
  That seems like an extremely high number? >
  
  ~~If I did my math correctly~~ (I didn't), it looks like it is about ~~three times~~ a third of the national average of missing persons per month.  
  South Dakota currently has 3 per 100,000 people missing, and the national average is about 1 per 10,000 per month.
  Edit: math is hard >
  
  I think the more useful number is that SD usually has 30 or so missing persons in a year. Now they’ve got that many in 18 days. 
  The National numbers are a little tricky because it’s how many people are reported missing, not how many stay missing. If half a million people get reported missing nationwide but most of those turn up eventually, it’s not really comparable to 28 teenagers going missing in 2 1/2 weeks in one place. >
  
  600,000 people are reported missing in the US every year. Given it's population, if South Dakota had that same rate they would have about 135 people declared missing in a month. Also, a very high percentage of missing persons are teenagers. They run away from home, stay with someone else without calling their parents, are taken by a parent that isn't supposed to have custody, etc.
  Also, a quick google reveals that 1,780 children were declared missing in South Dakota in 2022. That's 148 a month on average. If they're only at 30 for this month, that's way below the monthly average. (Actually, it's less than that, because a few people on this list were adults). My guess would be that way less kids run away from home in the cold temperatures of January. Just a guess though.
  Also, I'm not sure why you said "in one place." This is for the whole state of South Dakota. Also, many of these kids have already been found. This is a list of people that were declared missing, not a list of people that are still missing. >
  
  It would be seriously helpful to know how many people typically go missing.
  Example - were 40 missing in Jan 2022 by this time?  Then things have improved
  edit:. There's is a disturbingly high number of very young people in the article though.  Wtf >
  
  Interesting. What the heck is happening in Alaska?
  Edit: the number is so high primarily because Alaska is so flippin’ large and cold. Too easy to get lost or injured and succumb to the elements. The vastness of the wilderness and that cold works very much against search parties. So many rivers and lakes to be lost in; snow that covers tracks or remains. Since bodies are not recovered these people seem stay in “missing” status. As another person said, the state appeals to people who want to truly remove themselves from society and desire to be “missing,” or whatever they might be running from catches up. Alaska is wild, y’all. >
  
  Go up and meet some Alaskans sometime.
  There is a substantially higher percentage of people there who are just really not well suited for getting along with others. Some of them are perpetually running. Running from a bad situations eventually lands them in Alaska. And then the bad situations follow them because they are a big part of the cause of the bad situations. So they keep running. And end up either alone or dead.
  It's not pretty and it's not necessarily a reflection on Alaska, more on the kind of people who end up moving there.
  I'm in no way saying people like this are a majority in Alaska, but just a larger percentage of the population. And it shows in the figures. >
  
  It maybe human trafficking because of age of women. Just terrible news and mainstream media doesn’t cover it. >
  
  Serial killer or human trafficking ring? >
  
  Kids running away from home. These numbers are normal.
  Edit: I know I'm going to get downvoted to oblivion. But look up the numbers people. 
  These numbers are normal. >
  
  Says the longtime MAGA troll. >
  
  It has become well known that indigenous women disappear and never get any attention like other populations.  White girl goes missing and it’s all over the news and social media. Indigenous girl goes missing and not even a whisper. Someone has figured that out and is preying on their children. >
  
  
  White girl goes missing and it’s all over the news and social media.
  
  Many missing white girls never get coverage. You don't see the ones who don't make the news. 
  And obviously these missing teens made the news. >
  
  So many young kids. I hope they are safe. >
  
  
  I wonder how much of the disparity is due to differences in rates of missing persons cases and how much is due to differences in resolution rates of those cases.
  
  A corollary of your first comment:  or differences in a population's propensity to run away due to being in a relatively more shitty situation. >
  
  If only two of them were senators. >
  
  Sounds like the premise for a new season of "True Detective". >
  
  Or Fargo >
  
  Isn't that like 10% of the state's population? >
  
  2021; In the last 27 days, 24 children in South Dakota have gone missing according to state officials. >
  
  They really need to lose a house seat >
  
  Better yet, let’s just call it Dakota and add DC. >
  
  Maybe they are fleeing the fascist regime running the state. >
  
  Is there a way to learn about what any witnesses have said, if there are any?
  This is the perfect age for baiting someone to sneak out.
  Another comment here suggests the adults may have been inconvenient witnesses.
  Not a lot of information given that could be very helpful in this article. >
  
  I scrolled pretty far and couldn’t find it mentioned but everyone should watch Wind River. Great story the depicts this >
  
  Most of them probably left the state to get away from Kristi Noem. >
  
  I've reached out to two people I know from South Dakota asking if they have any insight. I was shocked at their reactions. 
  They both said "it happens pretty much constantly there, kids missing from the reservations." One of them said they think it is basically just the new residential schools. Making sure the next generation doesn't grow. They are both very caring people so the blase attitudes were unexpected. 
  I know the MMIW movement has been talking about this for a while. But where are these kids? Where is the bread coverage?? What the hell is going on?? >
  
  Wonder if this would have anything to do with the children cleaning slaughterhouses or similar? >
  
  So like half the population? >
  
  Sounds like trafficking >
  
  Well, well, now we sure must not think they have died in the snow storm? But then I hear in the news about some human sex trafficking going on in some of the Meat Packing plants? South Dakota has a number of them, with a Republican Governor that loves them. What do you think? >
  
  1/2 the state goes missing and no one knows anything ? >
  
  Something tells me the Bad Milk Brothers are the ones we need to be looking for first. >
  
  Looks like at least some of the missing were Native American. Has anybody checked into where Ezra Miller was on those dates? >
  
  There’s only 42 people in the state how are so many missing?!? >
  
  That’s what I was thinking. So sparsely populated. That is a lot of people in 21 days. >
  
  Law enforcement and media often make this assumption about missing Black and indigenous people, even in the total absence of evidence, which leads to their disappearances not being adequately investigated. 
  Let's not perpetuate the practice.  All it does is protect predators. >
  
  
  Sioux Falls is hideous shithole.  2. Something like 2k kids are murdered by their parents every year. You don’t get a hashtag me too if you’re 14 and you’re mom kills you. >
  
  FBI is useless unless your white and rich. >
  
  If I lived in the Dakotas, I’d gone missing from there as well. >
  
  Is there anyone there left to turn off the lights? >
  
  Please tell me this isn't some kind of far-right nutjob killing spree. >
  
  One thing to keep in mind when looking at a list like this is that there are very likely at least a few missing folks of that age bracket who aren't on it because they are too brown or too red.  These are not the only ones. >
  
  Why isn’t this a bigger story?  And so many Native Americans?