Can you recall any true crime stories that examine the disappearance or murder of Indigenous women?
That’s probably because their presence in the media is nearly nonexistent. It’s all the more shocking because, according to the federally funded National Criminal Justice Training Center, the rate of Indigenous women being murdered in the United States is ten times higher than any other ethnicity.
When writer/director Sabrina Van Tassel saw just how underrepresented these victims were in the media and how ignored most were by the justice system, she created the documentary “Missing from Fire Trail Road,” which just had its world premiere at NBC’s Tribeca Festival. “Our goal is to make as much noise as we can,’ she says.
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