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Why Are Native Women Vanishing

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Roxanne White, whose aunt was murdered in 1996, sings and drums a women's warrior and honor song created for missing and murdered indigenous women, before joining a search in Valier, Mont., for Ashley HeavyRunner Loring, who disappeared last year from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. For many in Native American communities across the nation, the problem of missing and murdered women is deeply personal. (AP Photo/David Goldman)