According to The National Crime Information center there are over 5700 cases of murdered and missing indigenous women in the US. According to nativewomenswilderness.org only 116 of those cases are reported in the U.S. department of justice’s database. Alaska, the last frontier holds 229, a quarter, of those cases according to dataforindigenousjustice.com. 19 year old Alaska Native, Sonya Ivanoff, is one those MMIWs from Alaska. This story is hers.
Resources:
The Face of Evil - Season 1, Episode 1 (4/19/2019)
https://www.oxygen.com/fatal-frontier-evil-in-alaska/crime-news/sonya-ivanoff-murdered-by-cop-matt-owena
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153408249/sonya-dora-nitcuk_ivanoff
http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2005/05/ak-sonya-dora-nitcuk-ivanoffmurdered.html
https://beringstraits.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2007-Agluktuk-Summer.pdf
https://dggs.alaska.gov/hazards/coastal/monitoring-unalakleet.html
https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?q=Unalakleet%20city,%20Alaska&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1
http://www.nomenugget.com/news/owens’-murder-conviction-stands
http://www.justicefornativewomen.com/2016/05/the-murder-of-sonya-ivanoff-found.html
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2018/08/23/from-2003-nome-police-must-work-to-regain-trust-after-officer-charged-with-murder/
http://www.nomenugget.com/news/owens’-murder-conviction-stands
https://robinbarefield76.medium.com/betrayal-of-trust-2c6d5b8e362b
https://law.justia.com/cases/alaska/court-of-appeals/2021/a-13016.html
https://dataforindigenousjustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/We-Are-Calling-To-You-1.pdf
Music Used:
Walking with the Dead by Maia Wynne
Link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Maiah_Wynne/Live_at_KBOO_for_A_Popcalypse_11012017
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Deep Relaxation Preview by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5726-deep-relaxation-preview
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
Deadly Roulette by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3625-deadly-roulette
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
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