Humbolt County, on the northern California coast, is known as the place where the name Bigfoot originated and is the home of Murder Mountain, which took its name from serial killers who fled here. The 2018 documentary by the same name explores how Humbolt is the county in the United States with the highest rate of missing persons. But it does not touch on how many of those people are Indigenous. North of Murder Mountain lies the Yurok Reservation, where 33-year-old Emmilee Risling, a University of Oregon graduate and accomplished tribal dancer, disappeared in 2021. We are joined by her cousin, a tribal judge, Victorio Shaw, to discuss Emilee's case and broader solutions for the challenges of creating a just world for Indigenous people.
Listen to our second episode with Victorio:
For more information on Emmilee's case, check our the feature in The New York Times, "Whose Searching for Emmiliee Risling?":
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