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
143 episodes
MURDERED: Jadie Butterfly
In this episode of We Are Resilient, we remember Jadie Butterfly, an Indigenous woman who was tragically killed on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana in December 2024, at just 19 years old. Her case remains open and her family is still waitin...
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MISSING: Jeanette Kamahele (Lost Coast)
**Listener Request**In 1972, 20-year-old Jeannette Kamahele disappeared while hitchhiking near the Cotati onramp of Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, California. Last seen getting into a faded brown pickup truck, she was never heard from again....
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MURDERED: Trystan Benallie
Trystan Benallie was a 28-year-old Indigenous mother of five, killed in a 2021 domestic violence shooting in Phoenix, Arizona. Despite having a protective order, she and a friend were murdered days after her abuser was released from jail on red...
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MURDERED: LaTisha Brien
In 1999, there was no national spotlight on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. The movement, as we know it today, didn’t exist. There were no hashtags. No public campaigns. No national awareness.That year, LaTisha Brien was murdered ...
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MURDERED: Tara Lynn Woodman (Mini Episode)
In this mini episode, we share the story of Tara Lynn Woodman, an 18-year-old Diné woman who vanished in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2005. Tara had recently moved to the city after graduating high school, but months later, she stopped contactin...
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MURDERED: Dora Owl
We’re joined this week by our very first guest—Brooklyn Brown, reporter for The Cherokee One Feather—as we visit the powerful and heartbreaking story of Dora Owl, a young Cherokee mother whose life was taken in 1947.Through Brooklyn’s re...
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MURDERED: Candrick Begay
In April 2023, Candrick Begay, 31, and his co-worker, Anthony McCants, 26, were working at the Highway 64 Auto Salvage in San Juan County, NM, when they were sent out to pull parts for a truck. They never returned. Both men were found murdered—...
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MURDERED: Regina and Raina Lansing (Mini Episode)
A mother and daughter, murdered six years apart in Denver, Colorado—both cases unsolved, both stories forgotten.No arrests. No suspects. No answers.Why were their cases ignored? How does a mother and daughter get murdered in the s...
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SPECIAL UPDATE: Emily Pike
Fourteen-year-old Emily Pike, a member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, was reported missing in Mesa, Arizona, in late January 2025. Weeks later, in February, her remains were discovered and later identified—confirming the worst fears of her lov...
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UNKNOWN: Mariah High Hawk (Mini Episode)
In 2016, 20 year old Mariah High Hawk was found under a trailer in Rapid City, South Dakota. Police ruled her death an accident, but her family saw bruises and believe otherwise. In this episode, we examine the inconsistencies, law ...
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MURDERED: Jennifer Jesse (Mini Episode)
Today marks five years since Jennifer Janelle Jesse, 30, was found murdered in Union City, Oklahoma. The case remains unsolved, but the OSBI just renewed its push for answers, offering a $10,000 reward and releasing images of a man seen at a Br...
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MISSING: Quana Big Spring
In this episode, we share the story of Quana Big Spring, a 17-year-old from Kansas City, who remains missing. She was last seen on October 30, 2023, when she went out for a walk around 7 p.m. and never returned home. Quana, who is 5’4” and 125 ...
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MURDERED: Lacey Arkinson
In December 2019, 16-year-old Lacey Kaide Arkinson was killed in a hit-and-run on the Rocky Boy Reservation in Montana. She was struck by Shoshana Saddler, who had been drinking at a local bar and fled the scene without stopping. In...
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SPECIAL UPDATE: Justice for Mika Westwolf, Michelle Elbow Shield & Aubrey Dameron
In this powerful update episode, we revisit the cases of Mika Westwolf, Michelle Elbow Shield, and Aubrey Dameron, three Indigenous individuals whose stories we’ve covered and whose families have fought tirelessly for answers.After a lon...
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MURDERED: Michael Gann
In 1980, 10-year-old Michael Gann vanished without a trace from his home in Oklahoma. Despite efforts to find him, his case remains unsolved, leaving behind decades of unanswered questions. What happened to Michael that day? How did a young boy...
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MISSING: Calvin Willie Martinez (Mini Episode)
In this episode of We Are Resilient, we delve into the mysterious disappearance of Calvin Willie Martinez, a 31-year-old Navajo man who vanished without a trace in 2019. As questions mount and answers remain elusive, Calvin’s family’s ...
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UKNOWN: Lloyd Bald Eagle
Lloyd Bald Eagle, a 62 year-old Lakota man and military veteran, went missing from Rapid City, South Dakota, in November 2022. Nearly two years later, his remains were identified in October 2024, but questions still linger as his cause of death...
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MURDERED: Annie Mae Aquash
Annie Mae Aquash was a Mi’kmaq activist and a powerful voice in the American Indian Movement. From her pivotal role at Wounded Knee to her tragic murder on Pine Ridge in 1975, her story remains one of courage, betrayal, and unanswered questions...
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UNKNOWN: Matthew Broncho (Mini Episode)
In this mini episode, we uncover the case of Matthew Broncho, a 30-year-old member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes who vanished from Fort Hall, Idaho, in March 2019. Years later, his remains were discovered in the desolate mountains of Utah, rai...
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SPECIAL UPDATE: Justice for Selena Not Afraid, Truth for Jessica and Ah-Yo-aka Calhoun
In this episode, we cover significant developments in two emotional cases. Nearly five years after Selena Not Afraid’s disappearance, an arrest has been made, bringing new hope for justice in her case. We also discuss the recent conclusion of a...
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MURDERED: Audra Willis
In December 2017, 39-year-old Audra Willis was tragically murdered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a case that initially baffled investigators. For over a year, there were no leads, and her family was left without answers or justice. However, in...
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SPECIAL RECAP: Janice Hannigan (Mini Episode)
This Christmas Eve, we revisit the story of Janice Hannigan, a 16-year-old Yakama girl who disappeared on this very day in 1971 in Washington state. Her case remains unsolved, and her story is a somber reminder that the MMIP crisis doesn’t take...
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MISSING: The Jack Family
In 1989, Ronald Jack, his wife Doreen and their two young sons, Russell and Ryan, vanished without a trace from Prince George, British Columbia. What began as a hopeful opportunity quickly turned into one of the region's most enduring mysteries...
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