"Sharing One Skin"  Okanagan Community written by Jeannette Armstrong 

Armstrong, Jeanette. “Sharing One Skin: The Okanagan Community,” in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds), The Case Against the Global Economy. San Francisco, CA, Sierra Club Books, 1996. Pp 460-470.

Toastie, B. “How place names impact the way we see landscape.” High Country News:    Know the West, 1 May 2022, https://www.hcn.org/issues/54.5/people-places-how-place-names-impact- the-way-we-see-landscape.

Heart, Brave, and Lemyra M. DeBruyn. "The American Indian holocaust: Healing historical unresolved grief." American Indian and Alaska native mental health research 8.2 (1998): 56-78.

Golden Talks about many different cases of Native Americans who have been murdered or have gone missing and have been neglected by the MMU and the FBI. Golden mentions and describes cases that have all met the same fate, where neither the MMU or FBI ever got back to the families with any valuable information. Those people were just left hanging with no hope to ever discover how or why their family member died or went missing. “They could have found something by now, instead of just back and forth.” “They’re probably not even doing anything.” (p1)

Golden, Hallie, and Deb Haaland. “'People are angry': US families feel let down by Indigenous missing unit.” The Guardian, 1 April 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/01/mmu-missing-and-murdered-unit-indigenous-native-american. Accessed 17 October 2024.

Throughout the article Porter emphasizes on how the whites idolized the land they had “discovered” and not so much the people and cultures that came with it. Since the arrival of Europeans on our land, our people have suffered for centuries in the hands of many europeans. They all try using and assimilating us in many different ways. “Natives” were seen as an accessory from the land and were treated as such. Porter explains this by saying The Spanish conquistadors wanted the Indians as a source of labor. The Christian missionaries, many of whom were English, viewed them as potential converts. French traders and trappers used the Indians as a means to obtain pelts.”

Griswold labels the number 177 as a very important number because it represents how many active cases of missing indigenous people there are from New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. He emphasizes that this number is a result of many inconsistencies in the federal agencies and police departments when it comes to responding to these cases. “One-hundred and seventy seven. That number is key in part because it's the first time law enforcement found agreement on how many active cases exist.” (pg.2)

SHAUN GRISWOLD. FBI assembles 177 active cases of Indigenous people missing from N.M. and Navajo Nation; Scan of databases is the first attempt by law enforcement to quantify the crisis after pressure mounts for years. Durango Herald, The (CO), [s. l.], 27 jul. 2022. Disponível em: https://research-ebsco-com.sfis.idm.oclc.org/linkprocessor/plink?id=1cc4da22-96e6-368e-91b6-6ead78ec168f. Acesso em: 4 nov. 2024.

Fisher reflects on how many agencies and departments do not report their crime data to FBI databases. They emphasize that even though they are under a state issue that requires them to report crime a lot of officers don’t. They say that by stating “Less than one-third of police departments in New Mexico are following state law that requires them to deliver crime data.” “But only 35 police departments are reporting.” “Twenty-nine were in a 6-month testing period where the FBI was ensuring the numbers are accurate, and 51 were not reporting.”

Fisher, Austin. “Most NM police departments fail to report crime data, LFC analysts say.” Source NM, 22 July 2022, https://sourcenm.com/2022/07/22/hed-most-nm-police-departments-fail-to-report-crime-data-lfc-analysts-say/. Accessed 11 November 2024.

Throughout the article Porter emphasizes on how the whites idolized the land they had “discovered” and not so much the people and cultures that came with it. Since the arrival of Europeans on our land, our people have suffered for centuries in the hands of many europeans. They all try using and assimilating us in many different ways. “Natives” were seen as an accessory from the land and were treated as such. Porter explains this by saying The Spanish conquistadors wanted the Indians as a source of labor. The Christian missionaries, many of whom were English, viewed them as potential converts. French traders and trappers used the Indians as a means to obtain pelts.”

Throughout this article, Baswan discussed the harsh reality of the Disney princess “Pocahontas,” whose real name is “Amonute”. They highlight the many different struggles Pocahontas and her people faced. The author emphasizes that many tribes were robbed of land, food, and supplies. Colonizers also targeted women and young girls in which they would rape and sexually assault them. Pocahontas is considered to be the first Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman.