Episode 4: Meskee Yatsayte & Tabatha Frank

Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines

07/28/20 • 38 min

Episode 4 of Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines is a double feature of two powerful women. First, we hear from Meskee Yatsayte (Potawatomi/Diné) from Navajo Nation Missing and Murdered Relatives. Meskee’s work is about including all missing Native kin, including men and boys, elders, the disabled and the trans/non-binary community. Next we hear from Tabatha Frank (Tla-o-qui-aht Ahousat/Muchalaht) whose striking face paint has become an iconic symbol of the MMIWG2ST movement. Her advocacy work on her own and with Butterflies In Spirit, a dance group that shares the story of those who are missing and murdered, has impacted her own life.
Watch the PBS News Hour interview with Meskee: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/304420/meskee-yatsayte
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07/28/20 • 38 min

Not Invisible: Native Peoples on the Frontlines - Episode 4: Meskee Yatsayte & Tabatha Frank

Transcript

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Tang say everybody. Before we start, we want to issue a content warning for this episode, which will contain discussions surrounding violence and murder around Indigenous women and families. The US and others. OTOs to the Imagine you're sitting in a room with the 10 women closest to you. They could be your sisters, your cousins, your friends, your auntie's your grandmother's. Now imagine that eight of those 10 women have been sexually assaulted or murdered. Indigenous women go miss

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