We Are Resilient: An MMIP True Crime Podcast
Hosted by Indigenous women Sheyahshe and Osh, We Are Resilient sheds light on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis. Through powerful storytelling, they honor lives impacted and amplify voices too often left unheard. Join them in the movement for justice and change.
Episodes
168 episodes
UNKNOWN: Loverine Walking Bull and Lena Mozelle Scott
In this episode of We Are Resilient, we share the stories of Loverine Walking Bull and Lena Mozelle Scott — two Indigenous women whose lives were tragically cut short in cases connected to hit-and-run incidents that still leave families searchi...
MURDERED: Victoria “Vicki” Eagleman (Mini Episode)
In 2006, 33-year-old Victoria “Vicki” Eagleman disappeared from the Lower Brule Lakota Indian Reservation in South Dakota.What happened afterward left her family searching for answers that still haven’t come nearly twenty years later.
UNKNOWN: Maleeka “Mollie” Boone
Mollie Boone was an 8-year-old Diné girl who went missing on January 15, 2026, in the Coalmine area of the Navajo Nation in Arizona. She was walking a path she knew by heart. She never made it home.Investigators now believe she may have ...
Wear the Red Handprint: A Call to Remember
This special PSA from We Are Resilient is a call to action for May 5th, National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people.Tomorrow, we’re asking you to take part in the W...
Ella Mae Begay Update: Justice on the Line
In this mini episode, Sheyahshe provides an update on the case of Ella Mae Begay, a Navajo elder who disappeared from her home in Sweetwater, Arizona in June 2021.After a federal judge ruled a key confession inadmissible in 2024, prosecu...
MISSING: Savannah Standing Bear
Savannah Standing Bear was last seen in March of 2025 on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.In the months since her disappearance, there have been searches, sightings, and rumors but no clear answers as to what happened to her.<...
UNKNOWN: Bessie Walker (Mini Episode)
Bessie Walker, a 27-year-old woman from the Big Sandy Rancheria of Western Mono Indians in Fresno County, California, was last seen in early August 2021, and her death is considered suspicious by authorities. The case remains unsolved.In...
Special Coverage: The Nathan Chasing Horse Verdict
In this episode of We Are Resilient, we discuss the conviction of Nathan Chasing Horse, the former actor known for his role in Dances With Wolves. A Las Vegas jury found him guilty on multiple fel...
MURDERED: Alexia “Lexi” Marie De La Cerda
On August 9, 2024, Alexia “Lexi” Marie De La Cerda, a member of the Three Affiliated Tribes, was brutally murdered by her boyfriend in White Shield, North Dakota. As her case moves through federal court, her family is questioning whether accoun...
MURDERED: Lenart Brown Eyes, Jr
In early 2025, a 68-year-old Lenart Brown Eyes Jr., Oglala Sioux, was killed in Rapid City, South Dakota. While his killer was ultimately held accountable, justice does not erase the loss and Indigenous men are too often left out of conversatio...
MISSING: Sa’Wade Birdinground
Sa’Wade Birdinground, a 13-year-old girl from Montana vanished from her grandparents’ home late at night in October 2024. A member of the Three Affliated Tribes, her disappearance was completely out of character. More than a year later, with se...
MISSING: Janice Hannigan
Every Christmas Eve, We Are Resilient returns to the disappearance of Janice Marie Hannigan. Janice, a sixteen-year-old Yakama Nation citizen, vanished after being discharged from a hospital on Christmas Eve of 1971. She left alone, injured, an...
MISSING & MURDERED: Jemini Posey and Isaac Hunt
The 2024 disappearance of Jemini Posey, a young Indigenous mother from the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota, has taken on new urgency following the 2025 discovery of Isaac Hunt’s remains. Once treated as separate investigations, the two ...
MURDERED: Challistia Colelay
16-year-old White Mountain Apache teen Challistia Colelay was reported missing on October 16, 2025 and later found deceased near Whitewater, Arizona, on November 3. At the time of recording, authorities had not reported any arrests. Since then,...
MURDERED: Lakota Renville
Lakota Renville left home at 20, believing she was stepping into a new future. Two years later, in 2005, she was found in Independence, Missouri and nearly twenty years later, her case remains unsolved. One distinctive clue has been released, a...
SPECIAL EPISODE: Halloween in Bemidji - Jeremy Jourdain & Nevaeh Kingbird
On a night meant for costumes and laughter, two Native teens vanished, years apart, in the same Minnesota town and neither has been seen since.In this Halloween special, we remember 17-year-old Jeremy “Worm” Jourdain and 15-year-old Neva...
MURDERED: Ashlea Aldrich (Mini Episode)
In this mini-episode, released in recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Sheyahshe revisits the story of Ashlea Aldrich, a 29-year-old Indigenous mother from the Omaha Reservation whose death remains unsolved nearly five years later....
MURDERED: Carly Johnson
In September 2025, tragedy struck when 50-year-old Carly Elizabeth Johnson, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, lost her life in Asheville, North Carolina. As investigators work to uncover the full truth, her story serve...
MISSING: Besalynn Mary James
This listener-requested episode shares the story of Besalynn Mary James, a 62-year-old Lummi elder who vanished from her home in Washington in January 2025. But after a delayed missing person report and months of searching, her loved ones are l...
UNKNOWN: Corbett LaPlant (Mini Episode)
In April 2025, 22-year-old Corbett LaPlant of Browning, Montana, was killed when his vehicle was forced off the road. The driver who caused the crash fled the scene and is still walking free.Corbett’s family has been met with silence and...
MURDERED: Velda Chimoni
On April 23, 2001, Velda Chimoni was fatally shot during a robbery at a Whataburger on West Indian School Road in Phoenix. Over two decades later, her case remains unsolved, and her family continues to seek answers and justice.Sources:
MURDERED: Terri McCauley
In 1983, 18-year-old Terri McCauley, an Omaha Tribe member and mother of two, disappeared in Sioux City, Iowa. Days later, she was found murdered and for over 40 years, her case went cold. In January 2025, a suspect was finally indicted. <...
MISSING: Elijah Maney **FOUND**
Elijah Maney, 25, member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was last seen after midnight on Aug. 10, 2025 entering the woods near 886 Lambert Branch Rd, Yellowhill Community, Cherokee, NC.He is described as 5’6”, slim build, medium...