MMIWR Monday: Tyrannus White and Eugena Martinez, Gloria Jean King, Laverda Sorrell
Missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) is a national epidemic that is just now getting the attention it deserves. Native women and girls are murdered or missing at much higher rates than other racial groups. And as of 2018, New…
MMIWR Monday: Agnes Tybo, Jansen Secody, Judith Fern Garcia
Agnes Tybo Agnes Tybo is one of Albuquerque’s many cold cases. Tybo was visiting Albuquerque in November 1983 with family to attend the state rodeo. She checked into the Sundowner Motel on Central, which is now an apartment complex. Her…
MMIWR Monday: Ashlie Chee, Cheryl Rose Hatathlie and Darien J. Hatathlie, & Michelle Daz Ha Arrellano
Ashlie Chee Ashlie Chee went missing on November 28, 2022. She was 17 years old when she disappeared. She is five foot two and weighs about a hundred pounds. She was wearing a dark-colored jacket and blue jeans when she…
Walcie Rae Downing
The epidemic of Native American women going missing does not appear to be new, sadly. In fact, this 1956 disappearance points toward the lengthy history of violence towards Native American women since colonization. This disappearance is of Walcie Rae Downing,…
MMIWR Monday: Rose Bennett, Vanessa Tsosie, Tiffany Reid
Missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) is a national epidemic that is just now getting the attention it deserves. Native women and girls are murdered or missing at much higher rates than other racial groups. And as of 2018, New…
Ashley Rosales
Ashley Rosales is a woman missing from Belen. She was last seen by her sister Amity when they had an argument and Ashley stormed away on September 9, 2017. Someone else allegedly saw her on September 16. But she has…
Pepita Redhair: Vanished in Albuquerque
I am sad to write about yet another indigenous woman who vanished without a trace. Fortunately, Pepita is one of the few victims in my blog who seems to have a solid backstory to her personality and her life before…
Anthonette Cayedito: Never Found, Never Forgotten
Another missing indigenous girl…another call for justice. This is the tragic abduction of Anthonette Cayedito. I don’t like writing about horrible things happening to children. But I think highlighting their cases are crucial to maybe getting them solved. Anthonette Cayedito…
Missing and murdered Indigenous women and their relatives (MMIWR) is an international epidemic that is just now getting the attention it deserves. Native women and girls are murdered or missing at much higher rates than other racial groups. As of 2018, New Mexico leads the United States in missing and murdered indigenous women. Recent efforts have been created to combat the epidemic of MMIWR.
For this reason, I’ll be posting 3 MMIWR every Monday to highlight their cases and try to raise awareness of this social justice issue. Most of the people I post are from New Mexico but I will also feature women from other states due to the fact that tribal nations transcend state lines.
Many of these cases have few or no details. Some don’t even have photos. But we can’t forget their names. All it takes is the right person seeing a post about one of these women and coming forward to solve a case and free a family from endless painful wondering.