In Oklahoma and across the nation, Indigenous women face violence and disappear at a disturbingly disproportionate rate. I brought on Trent Shores, former US Attorney in Oklahoma who coordinated previous efforts to improve judicial and law enforcement coordination in these cases, as well as Sarah Adams-Cornell, co-founder of the Matriarch non-profit that focuses on aid for indigenous women and children, to talk about what happens to these women at the intersections of multiple axes of oppression and what we as a state and nation can do better.
Following up on a story I had produced earlier in the year, we get some insight into how COVID-19, civil unrest, and issues of police violence have disproportionately affected Black Oklahomans, according to a study by the University of Oklahoma's medical school.
