6/13/2023 0 Comments Pocahontas greek audioThe actual story is less charming and more straightforward. On its face, it looks like another princess story, spiced up with the idea that it's a romance pulled straight from history: Two good hearts finding each other as their respective nations perpetuate destructive, xenophobic ideas, fomenting war. The problem is, we passively do, and much of this relates to the stories we are told, and then pass down, about whose life is valuable, and in what way. ![]() I like to think this isn't because we actively think some lives are more important than others. Overall, Indigenous people are 100 percent more likely to still be missing after 30 days than white people. Some 85 percent were minors, 57 percent women and girls. In Wyoming alone, 710 Indigenous people were reported missing over the past decade. ![]() But another, lesser-known story unfolded alongside Petito's-one about the many Indigenous women who go missing, without justice or news coverage, every year. If you followed it, you know what happened. This was a tragedy and an injustice in thousands of ways. After reams of news coverage and intense searches-five different agencies pitched in-through vast territory (Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park), her remains were found. ![]() ![]() Last year, a van life influencer, Gabby Petito, went missing.
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