In Montana’s Big Sky Country, a black cloud hangs over the state’s expansive horizon. It looms above the indigenous residents of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations and nearby towns in Big Horn County most of all. “That energy just consumes you as an individual,” explains an elderly Native American woman, “then it consumes your family until it consumes your whole tribe.” But what’s the dark energy that smothers the southern Montana region?
It’s the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW), with cases increasing over the past decade at alarming rates.
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