00:00People don't know what MMIW means.
00:02They know what, you know, a TikTok is,
00:03but they don't know what hashtag MMIW is.
00:05That's, that's a problem.
00:18There's so many cold case files.
00:19It gets to the point where families are so afraid to report
00:22their missing loved one as native
00:25for fear of getting them not looked for.
00:28Maybe if I report them as white, they'll get looked for.
00:29Maybe if I report them as Hispanic, they'll get looked for.
00:31But if I say native, they're going to put it in a box
00:34and it's not going to get worried about.
00:47Paula Castro Stops just found the exact spot
00:50where her daughter's body was discovered.
00:52You have these camps of workers there for years
00:55and they're just there by themselves.
00:57They're in a different area, they're not home,
00:58but they know there's some exotic indigenous women here.
01:01There's a market for that.
01:02The sex market is ridiculous.
01:05Whatever sells, they're going to harvest,
01:07whether it's drugs or women.
01:08And when you're in a certain area
01:10and they know there's a huge reservation
01:13full of native girls that these other guys have never seen,
01:17they're going to get targeted.
01:18And if they know that nobody's looking for these girls
01:20and it's really easy to get them, they're going to get them.
01:22It's when people don't make it a big deal
01:24that these people, these predators
01:26are going to keep on doing it.
01:28What is the role of indigenous women in colonization?
01:35Since colonization, indigenous and Native American women
01:38have been targeted and just have been looked at as weak.
01:41They've been taking our women since they came here,
01:44taking our people since they came here,
01:45and since anybody has colonized any land.
01:47What is the role of indigenous women in colonization?
02:04I have younger cousins that have gotten trafficked.
02:09We had, she's not a relative of mine per se,
02:11but she's of the Wampanoag Nation.
02:14Janasia, she was 18 years old.
02:18She got in a car with somebody she thought she knew
02:22and she got taken away.
02:23Today, police in Felsmere, Florida,
02:25found a body in a field.
02:27They say it appears to be Finkley's body
02:29and that this appears to be a murder.
02:31That was something that hit really close to home.
02:33I mean, I've heard so many different stories.
02:36A Native woman goes missing.
02:45Her tribal government cannot exercise
02:48any kind of police jurisdiction over that crime
02:51unless the government knows that the perpetrator was Native.
03:06I just want to use my platform that I build with boxing.
03:09I have a voice for the voiceless, you know?
03:11These sisters, these people that are missing,
03:13they're gone, they don't have voices.
03:15So I have a voice, so I want to use it to bring awareness
03:17to problems that we have in our community.
03:19I mean, this film is in no way, shape, or form an answer.
03:22It's just an artistic interpretation
03:24to get eyes on something.
03:25You want to grasp eyes and get attention.
03:28Okay, here's a thriller, here's drama.
03:30It's a heavy role, it's a heavy context of a film
03:33or even a context of a conversation,
03:35but I was honored to be able to tell the story.
03:38You know, I have a purpose,
03:40and just like what I do with boxing,
03:42if I had to film in the middle of November, December
03:45in the coldest place on earth, in Buffalo, New York,
03:47I'm going to do that, you know what I mean?
03:49If that's what I have to do,
03:50it was a story that needed to be told.
03:54By any means necessary, I was going to do it.
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