Feb. 17, 2026
Chapter 132: Buried Beneath The Water: The Death of Olivia Lone Bear
In 2017, Olivia Lone Bear disappeared from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Months later, her truck was discovered submerged in a reservoir, but the answers never surfaced. As the investigation stalled, the story of a missing mother and the community that searched tirelessly for her became part of a larger, devastating pattern: the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women whose cases remain unsolved, yet refuse to be forgotten.
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Body found in submerged truck believed to be missing mother of five. (2018, August 3). NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/fbi-confident-body-found-submerged-truck-belongs-missing-mother-olivia-n897546BREAKING: New information in Olivia Lone Bear case. (2019, November 20). KX News. https://www.kxnet.com/news/local-news/breaking-new-information-in-olivia-lone-bear-case/Dura, J. (2018a, February 3). Searchers comb Bismarck for missing woman as volunteer effort expands. The Jamestown Sun, A4.Dura, J. (2018b, February 4). Bureau of Indian Affairs takes lead in Lone Bear Case. The Bismarck Tribune, 1.Dura, J., & Emerson, B. (2018a, December 28). Lone Bear case awaits answers. The Bismarck Tribune, A1.Dura, J., & Emerson, B. (2018b, December 29). 14 months after North Dakota woman was last seen alive, family and tribes await answers. The Dickinson Press, A3.Emerson, B. (2019, April 9). Stenejhem: Lone Bear report of death exempt from open records. The Jamestown Sun, B4.Emerson, B., & Dura, J. (2019, August 2). One year later, no answers from FBI about death of Olivia Lone Bear. Grand Forks Herald, B2.Family frustrated by lack of search efforts in Native America woman Olivia Lone Bear’s disappearance. (2017, December 11). NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/missing-in-america/family-frustrated-lack-search-efforts-native-america-woman-olivia-lone-n828561Hopkins, R. (2018, September 11). When the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis hits home. Teen Vogue. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/when-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-epidemic-hits-homeKeeler, J., & Keeler, J. (2024, January 24). ‘No crime scene’: The search for Olivia Lone Bear. High Country News. https://www.hcn.org/issues/50-12/tribal-affairs-no-crime-scene-the-search-for-olivia-lone-bear/Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC. (n.d.). https://www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awarenessObituary for Olivia Keri Lone Bear at Langhans Funeral Homes, Inc. (2018, August 5). https://www.langhansfuneralhome.com/obituary/olivia-lone-bearOgden, E. (2018, January 2). $5000 more reward offered in search of Olivia Lone Bear. The Dickinson Press, 2.OLIVIA LONE BEAR. (n.d.). FBI. https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seeking-info/olivia-lone-bearSkurzewski, J. (2019a, July 31). Investigation continues into death, disappearance of Olivia Lone Bear. https://www.kfyrtv.com. https://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Timeline-of-events-in-Olivia-Lone-Bear-investigation-513457331.htmlSkurzewski, J. (2019b, November 20). Feds meet with Lone Bear family, offer reward for information. https://www.kfyrtv.com. https://www.kfyrtv.com/content/news/Feds-meet-with-Lone-Bear-family-offer-reward-for-information-565233562.htmlSuspicious death: Olivia Lone Bear | New Town, ND | Uncovered. (n.d.). https://uncovered.com/cases/olivia-lone-bearThe Associated Press. (2019, November 21). Native woman found in Fort Berthold Lake was belted in. Rapid City Journal, A5.Wigginton, C. (2018, July 9). Frustration with investigation mounts. The Bismarck Tribune, A5.
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friends loves to watch them. For those that don't know,
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dive team. It was founded by Jared Lasik and from
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their website, since December of twenty nineteen, they have located
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closure to families, and that's in part what inspired this episode.
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When a young Indigenous woman seemingly vanishes after a night
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out at a bar, her family spends months desperately searching
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for her, as jurisdictional issues and miscommunications hindered law enforcement's
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efforts to find her themselves. When the car she borrowed
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is found at the bottom of Lake Sakakuweya, the investigation
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pivots to figure out what exactly happened the night she
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went missing and who could have been responsible. This is
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the death of Olivia Loanbear. Olivia Carey Loanbearer, whose Hidatsa
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name was Cedar Woman, was born on October eleventh, nineteen
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eighty five, to Iris Sherman Forbear and Harley Text Loanbear.
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She was a member of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara
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nation also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes and Mahahati
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or Dripping Dirty Clan, and she also identified as a
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member of the Spirit Lake tribe. Olivia grew up with
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a large family. She had two sisters, Erin and Marlis,
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as well as five brothers, Melichi, Harley, Houston, Matthew, and Joy,
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and she loved spending time with them and going on adventures.
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Throughout her school years, she made a lot of friends
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and not only did she excel in her classes, but
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Olivia loved being involved in athletics, playing basketball, volleyball, and
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running cross country track. She did move around a lot,
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starting high school in Newtown, North Dakota, before moving to
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Montana and later Washington State when she entered her junior
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year in two thousand and three. That year, she also
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gave birth to her first child, a little girl, and
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so she could raise her daughter, she transitioned to homeschooling
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and an independent studies programmed in order to obtain her diploma.
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loss after the death of her second child at eight
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months old, and she transitioned to a more nomadic lifestyle,
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going between Welpinit in Washington and Newtown, before finally settling
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back home there on the Fort Bertholed Reservation for good
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in two thousand and nine. She built a life for
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her children, going on to have four more, and she
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worked hard, taking on various jobs at the Forebears Casino
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and launch. Her favorite position was working as a live
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games dealer, and she also picked up ships at the
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Edgewater golf Course in Legion. Olivia was an incredibly hard
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worker and wanted to give her babies, who were her world,
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the best life possible, but she also loved to have
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fun with her friends and family. She was always ready
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to go out and play poker or golf, and she
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loved a good concert. She was known to be incredibly
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adventurous and loved to go on spontaneous trips and spend
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as much time outdoors with her loved ones when the
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weather permitted as possible. Described by her family as vibrant
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and outgoing, intelligent and loving, she spent many days just
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spending as much time as she could with her family,
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taking on a large role in caring for her father
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and her grandfather. By twenty seventeen, when this case begins,
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things were a bit hard for thirty two year old Olivia,
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and she was focusing most of her time on taking
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care of her children by this point, all under the
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age of fourteen. According to an interview, her brother Matthew,
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gave a dateline she was in between jobs, so that's
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all she did take care of them. She stayed at
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the house and cooked dinner at night and got the
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kids to school in the morning. Matthew recalled that while
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things were difficult for his sister, she was in good
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spirits and didn't appear to be under any real stress.
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She was her usual outume going self, going about her
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day to day life, taking care of her family, By
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this point, she was living with her father and children
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at a home on the edge of the Fort berth
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Told Reservation, and nothing was amiss with her, which made
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the events that came after all the more devastating for
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her family. On October twenty fourth, twenty seventeen, according to
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an article for Kfgo, Olivia had plans to go out
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with her friends to a bar. She told one of
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her children she would be home later, and she headed
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to the Sportsman's Bar in Newtown. Later that evening, and
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the exact time is unknown. Olivia leaves the bar and
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gets into a blue twenty eleven Chevrolet Silverado twenty five
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hundred HDLT with a dented tailgate and a silver toolbox
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visible in the back. According to the Dickinson Press, Olivia
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had gotten into the driver's seat, but her brother, according
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to Dateline, was asked not to comment on whether or
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not she had left with anybody. According to an article
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for High Country, the truck was lent to her by
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a friend, Jim Hoffanky, who confirmed that he had spoken
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to Olivia that day. He said he lent her his
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car whenever she needed it, and on the twenty fourth
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she had texted him and mentioned doing laundry. Haffankey said
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he went to the house to drop up some groceries,
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but no one was home and when he later returned,
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Olivia was not there. It is believed that Olivia returned
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to her home at some point that evening, though, as
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her phone and her wallet were in her room, as
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well as the clothing she had been wearing two sportsmans
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that night, but she wasn't seen by anybody in her house.
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After two days of not being able to get into
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contact with his daughter, Harley Lonebear called the tribal police
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to report her missing. However, the police were not quick
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to investigate, taking another three days to take action or
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issue a statewide alert. Matthew said quote The Maha Nation
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Police did not act on the missing person's report until
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the following Monday, and news couldn't report and put it
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on air until the Tribal Police department filed a police report.
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One of the critical issues at the very start of
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this investigation was a lack of evidence. There were no
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signs of foul play, no trace of where she could
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have gone, and no one reported anything suspicious. While a
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witness had come forward, according to the Rapid City Journal,
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who said that Olivia had texted her on the night
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she disappeared, saying she had been at a bonfire and
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she was planning on going mudding. If she was with
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anyone or going anywhere specific was not mentioned, so it
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wasn't very much to go on. Detective Sam Lincoln of
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the Three affiliated Tribes police department told Dateline that in
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the first two weeks of the initial investigation, they had
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combed through the waterways in the area searching for her,
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but absolutely nothing was found. Also searching were Olivia's brothers
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and uncles, and they took their ATVs out to cover
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more area, but with hundreds of thousands of acres to cover,
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search efforts were difficult without a clear direction to look in.
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Not only was the investigation hindered due to having very
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little to go on, Olivia's family was left frustrated by
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a lack of communication from the tribal police. Allegedly, it
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took five weeks for investigators to come speak to the
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family after Olivia had been reported missing, and they were
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left in the dark for far longer than what anyone
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would consider acceptable. Matthew said, quote, they should have come
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to talk to us right when she was reported missing.
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We don't even know who the lead investigators are. We
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try to be civil and work with them, but there's
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a lack of transparency from them. Additionally, they were allegedly
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not willing to verify tips that were coming in. Matthew
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claimed that someone had spotted hoff Henky's truck, or at
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least one that looked like it, but because the tipster
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cannot provide a color of the vehicle or its license
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plate number, no one from the police department went out
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and spoke to this tipster to see what they knew.
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The family had also asked police to search the on
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Star system to try and locate the Silverado, but questions
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of whether or not this had been done when unanswered.
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By December, the Lone Bear family was vocal in their
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disappointment with police. While they acknowledged that original search efforts
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by them were good and they were proactive in looking
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for Olivia once they had started, that drive that should
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have been consistent had lost its power. At a press conference,
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Lisa Yellowbird Chase three Affiliate Tribes member and the founder
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of Sawnish Scouts, an organization that conducts searches for missing people,
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especially those in North Dakota's Indian and oil countries said, quote,
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don't wait for law enforcement because as people have this
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false sense of security that when you file a missing
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person report that all of the officers and detectives jump
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in their cars and run all over the place looking
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for this person. Lysa and the Sano Scouts joined Matthew
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in launching a large scale search to find Olivia and
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bring her home, setting up search camps and organizing volunteers
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and search parties set out to try and cover as
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much as possible, using drones to try and find the Silverado,
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but they were consistently left frustrated when nothing was found.
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Also active in assisting the family was North Dakota Senator
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Heidi hate Camp, who was vocal in her advocation for
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crimes against Indigenous women. According to NBC, she had introduced
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Savannah's Act into legislation the same month that Olivia disappeared,
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in an effort to combat the epidemic of violence against
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Indigenous women and girls. This was done in response to
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the murder of twenty two year old Savannah Lafontaine gray Wynd,
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who was brutally murdered and her baby had been ripped
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from her womb two months before Olivia went missing in
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twenty nineteen, when this act was presented at that year's
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legislative session, Spirit Lake Nation Tribal Chairwoman Mara Pearson said
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in her address of the two cases that they quote
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forced local, state, and national attention to the fact that
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Indigenous women are missing and murdered at rates far exceeding
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national averages, and all too often justice salutes the families
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in such cases. Unfortunately, cases like this are and at
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the time of Olivia's disappearance, were all too familiar for
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Indigenous women and their families. In twenty seventeen alone, Native
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women made up one point eight percent of missing persons
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cases in the FBI's national databases. Indigenous women are also
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more likely to experience sexual violence by non natives. In
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twenty sixteen, according to the National Crime Information Center, there
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were fifty seven hundred reports of missing and murdered Indigenous
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women in just the United States alone. Again, those numbers
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are specifically from the time of Olivia's disappearance. The numbers
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for twenty twenty five are alarmingly much higher, according to
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the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center, Quote, American, Indian and
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Alaska Native women experience a murder rate ten times higher
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than the national average. More than four and five American,
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Indian and Alaska Natives, or eighty four point three percent,
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have experienced violence in their lifetime. Fifty six point one
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percent have experienced sexual violence, fifty five point five percent
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have experienced physical violence by an intimate partner, and forty
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eight point eight percent have experienced stalking. Sixty four percent
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of trafficking survivors in Hawaii identified as being part Native Hawaiian. Unfortunately,
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while these numbers are staggering, it's likely even higher, as
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according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, less than half
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of the violent crimes against Indigenous women are ever reported
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to the police. This crisis is described as being quote
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the legacy of generations of government policies of forced removal,
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land seizures and violence inflicted on Native peoples, a crisis
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that is very much prevalent and in fact continuously on
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the rise in this day and age. According to the
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Dickinson Press, in the first two months of the investigation,
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twenty one thousand dollars was gathered by anonymous contributors to
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offer as a reward for any information that could lead
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