When i became a trucker my parents were terrified. My dad was a Detroit cop who was also anishinaabe. My mom is Metis. Before i was born one of my mother's niece's was waking, possibly hitchhiking (this was late 70s), to visit some family in Northern Michigan. She missed her check in. Then she missed it again and that's when the family got on my dad to help. My dad reached out to the state troopers and they basically said "Indians run away all the time. " Sara was a straight A student who lived in the suburbs, and she was still an "Indian girl" to them. Sara was never found.

Being from Northern Canada and indigenous myself. This is a huge issue in Canda as well. Thank you so much for bringing this to light

Yes, bring this to public knowledge. So many indigenous and native peoples in the Americas are abused and neglected

This whole topic of native disappearances/murders by non natives is honestly really interesting and there no telling how many serial killers exploited the jurisdictional loophole created by a problem that the federal government hasn't cared about until very recently

Indigenous woman from Canada here, thank you for covering this!... EDIT : Have you seen anything or know about the "Highway of tears." here in Canada I feel it's something you would be great at making a video about, also needs awareness , ties into MMIW and is just such an odd, sad and mysterious thing. So glad Wendigoon had you on his channel, subbed!

My family is Metis. This happened in my own family with my cousin. The cops didn't give a solitary shit. It was my aunt's biker friends who found her, not the authorities.

I wrote a paper on this for college a while back, it’s terrifying stuff, especially when you dig deep enough to see how the governments are covering it by sectioning the roads to make it seem like less go missing.

6:00 I really appreciate how you are framing all of this. A lot of people play into the culture war framing instead of placing the blame where it belongs which is with the authorities in power. Pitting common people against each other is pointless and counter productive; ultimately, we want peace between common peoples. The eternal antagonists to that peace are the government and capital interests.

As a Indigenous girl happy to see people talk about this, there’s so many issues nobody cares about and it hurts

I had a friend who's father was a firefighter on the Rosebud Reservation and he told me horror stories about witnessing domestic abuse. I think the worst he told me was about witnessing a murder s**cide involving a husband and wife. All they could do was sit in the fire truck and watch while they waited an hour for tribal police to arrive. It's a shame how terrible the conditions can be

I have so much respect for you for covering this topic. No more stolen sisters.

This is such an important topic. It’s the elephant in Alaska. We just declared Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Day. The series Alaska Daily focuses on it. Thank you for the spotlight

Went to a Native American Reservation in 2019 and the conditions the people have to live in are fucking horrific. A majority of adults and quite a few kids smoke (I myself saw school-aged children smoking) and drink, there's MASSIVE suicide rates on the reservation I went to, and they have very few occupational opportunities alongside incredibly disturbing living conditions. They deserve significantly better than what they're being forced to live in and with.

I am an internationally native person. My dad is Mapuche Chilean from a reservation, but his dad was cherokee and mexican and moved to chile when he was young from mexico. my mum is also Larrakia and Wurundjeri australian from Darwin and West Melbourne respectively. my dad told me stories of life on reservations in chile, as well as the stories his dad told him about cherokee culture so i have a decent understanding of that stuff, as well as mapuche folklore. but this happens EVERYWHERE!!! In central australia, there is a highway where there is a pretty high chance that you will go missing or be murdered without being investigated if you are an aboriginal woman. In fact, when my mums sister was heading up to Larrakia country up the highway, she went missing, presumed dead by my whole family while on that highway, that was a few years ago. my auntie in chile was murdered (without her death being investigated) on a highway near Retiro (the res) in may 2017. This shit is a massive problem worldwide, ive heard stories of it happening in canada and the USA, as well as in native reservations all across latin america, and australia and New Zealand. This happens everywhere and almost no one talks about this. As an indigenous person myself, Aidan, I am so thankful for this video because I love being able to see people with a platform talk about the aunties of my people. Because thats what the world needs

For those curious, the part about the Government only logging only 116 of the 5712 missing reports of Indigenous Women means they have only logged 2% of the cases

you're a good man Aiden, both of you. i've always gotten good vibes from you and i think it's great that there's someone who cares and tries to bring awareness to these issues.

In Canada I grew up learning that we treated the natives far better than the US, although it turned out we probably treated them worst. You gave them swift death, but we really messed up the entire culture and killed an insane amount of native children, up until the19-MF-60s

Wind River is actually one of my fav films of the last decade. Taylor Sheridan is a great screenwriter.

Thank you so much for covering this. I hope you cover individual cases. These people need help.

Hey Aidan and Lore Lodge team. I am a Canadian living in south-west Manitoba and I want to convey my thanks for this amazing video you have produced. I graduated college this past June and the topic of MMIW was a frequent topic of study in my program. I was in college for Social Work. The issue is so pervassive and deep that many more people need to know about it and we all should be discussing it and not stopping until the issue is solved. In Canada, this issue combined with the "Highway of Tears" (which I would also encourage you to produce a video on, does truly represent an epidemic that the Canadian government has been far too slow to act on. My deepest thanks to you and other Aidan for using your platform to bring awareness to this topic. I wish you all a Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

My great-grandmother was Choctaw. She died when I was 15. She was born in Noshoba. Oklahoma (Noshoba means wolf). She was raised by her mother and grandmother, who had survived the death march called The Trail of Tears. She told me the five civilized tribes was called the Muskogee nation and was made up of: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole and Creek. I just watched Wind River a few weeks ago. Thought it was excellent. The movie did claim it was based on true events. Made me think of a movie from back in the day called Thunderheart. It starred Val Kilmer and Graham Greene. I watched it again and also thought it was very good.

I'm glad a big channel has covered this 🧡❤️ My 19yr old sister was taken from us in 2020 and we still haven't even gone to trial. She was visiting friends, and another group of friends she knew came by but the original group she was with didnt like that group so ofc their solution was to kill my sister. First trial date was supposed to be in 2021 and it's been postponed every single time we get to the newest date. Before my sister got killed I knew what MMIW was but I never actually fully understood the extent of how many of us go missing or are murdered. So many of my own family members are missing their cousins, or their aunties, or even their grandmas.

This topic is awful and something non-native people need to know more about. Thank you Aiden, I can tell from your videos like these that you don’t just distrust the feds, you have immense empathy for those who are wronged by them (and the wider American culture) too.

I live at one end of the Highway of Tears (which is itself a good video topic) and I've heard some pretty awful stories about near misses women have had in the area.

It’s bizarre that this isn’t taught regularly in primary and secondary schools. I grew up in freaking Arkansas, yet still learned of the atrocities in both junior high and high school…

Didn’t realize this was such an issue. Thanks Uncle Sam

Thank you for making this video Aiden. This is widely ignored outside of reservations and all to common on reservations. There is ridiculous amounts of corruption on reservations, especially poor ones, and the red tape and bureaucracy makes it almost impossible for these crimes to be solved. On my reservation, for example, there are numerous missing children and women sign that have been up for years, with families still hoping for closure. Again, thank you for bringing this further into the public consciousness and I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

A girl in my English class my senior year did her final project on mmiw. It was a great presentation. She focused also on the fact that not only is it underreported, but the media widely ignores reporting on the cases we do know about. Every aspect of American society really seems to be working against helping Native Americans when it comes to violent crime against them. I can not speak on Canada as I am not Canadian but from what I hear it's sadly much of them same.

I’m so glad I found this channel. You covered this with the reverence it deserves. All the attention this issue can get… the better.

Thank you for bringing this to a wider audience!

This topic definitely deserves a lot more attention than it gets. It's astounding how little awareness there is about this, even in parts of Wyoming. You never hear about this stuff outside of the communities directly affected by it and it sucks. I grew up in Wyoming and was only recently made aware that this was a thing that happened. If you don't live in Riverton or Lander or don't know any Native Americans, your chances of hearing anything about this are very low.

Thank you. (Canada doesn't use First Nations, we use Indigenous as well as thats how Indigenous people refer to themselves as) , Canada and the RCMP literally blatantly refuse to look for people or bodies (as in, very recently they made a statement saying they refuse to look for the bodies of 4 suspected victims of a serial killer and this happens very often, or they say nothing). There's a whole highway that's known for targeted attacks, and a lot of the people they've found on the rare occasion they look for the perpetrators, they've been current or past RCMP, police or well loved community members.

Good man Aiden, I was just watching the smile stream where you mentioned wanting to make a video about MMIW and I’m glad you were able to. Thanks for bring this to light and talking about it

Thank you for this, this has effected my family more than once. My great aunt was a First Nation’s woman, who’s murder is still unsolved because the RCMP essentially went “Yeah this isn’t really our problem”. Only looking into it at all once the psychic Alison Dubois made a prediction about where her body was (yes I’m serious, that’s how ridiculous this is) This is the same response they gave my cousin in her domestic violence case. Hell, I’ve had my own disregarding by police when my friend and I were victims of a hate crime, the police took our statement after being chased and assaulted, taking us seriously at first (we are both of mixed heritage) but the second we said it was racially motivated (it was, they called us slurs throughout) the just told us to take it up with the reservation police, who then had to come back to the same cops as we were assaulted in their town, and they did nothing about it.

A note on the Cherokee removal: Though the Cherokee's attempt to sue the federal government did not stop their expulsion, they didn't lose their case. The Supreme Court actually sided with the natives, but President Jackson ignored the Court's decision and forced the Cherokee westward anyway.

Thank you for using your platform to talk about this issue, it means a lot. It shows you care, and that you can use the community around your videos for good and that's something so few people seem to do. I hope this can really bring it up to a wider audience and I know it will help make a difference.

So glad you covered this. As horrifying as it is, I am going to watch Wind River. I never knew what it was about. I have major depression and horrible anxiety, so I normally stay away from fictionalized movies with a lot angst, but THIS is important.

So glad to see you address this. Honestly it needs more attention then it has gotten in the past. Also you should look into the murdered and missing aboriginal people in Australia and New Zealand too!. It's very similar.

Boosting the algorithm. Very insightful and respectfully made. Thank you for bringing attention to this issue

honestly, better than paulides in everyway. so much more information and objectivity than any other stream i see. far too many, regardless of subject matter, give equal footing if not more, to supernatural explanations for absolutely everything. you guys are the best

This is my first video of yours and I'm already wildly in love with your channel. This was intelligently and unflinchingly executed and I hope your parents are as proud of you as I am (I'm almost an old lady). Lately, many people have been touching on this epidemic, but that's it -- they've touched on it only. It's such a welcome change to see someone going deeper into this and bringing it out to a wider audience. I'm also so thrilled you're a male; the only way we as women survive our rights being trampled on, no matter the color, is if the men are fighting for us too. Thank you so much.💜

Thank you so much for bringing attention to this and the charities too!

Thank you for making this video!! All these stories need to be told !!

Yes, thank you for making this video. I stopped it half way through and went and bought "Wind River" and watched it, and then finished your video. Thank you for talking about this issue.

Dude, yes, I am so happy you made a video on this because I have heard about this subject many times but never seen ANY videos on it (yet). There are a variety of factors or explanations but I've never seen anyone go into weighing and analyzing the likelihoods of it all based on factual data

Thank you so much. Thank you for bringing the awareness we need.

Thank you Aiden for educating people about this disturbing crime.There does NEED to be action! Not discussion. I like the face you point out how to change this situation.

Thank you for using your platform for good and raising awareness for people who need it. 🙂

So glad I found your channel!! I've run out of stuff to watch and it's a struggle to find new videos and/or content creators that I can enjoy. From what I've watched on your channel so far you seem very kind and sincere when discussing tragic topics, such as this one, but you have a friendly persona that makes me feel engaged in the subject of your videos. You also have enthusiasm in your presentation, so it doesn't feel as though you're just reading stuff off Wikipedia and inserting nuanced opinions or constantly quoting/showing screenshots of what others have already said about the topic. Basically, what I'm saying is: I dig the cut of your jib and I jibe your keen vibe, haha! I look forward to watching your other videos, your future uploads and seeing your subscriber count grow!! Merry Wishes for you and your loved ones! Shalom to you dudeski!

I just recently found ur channel, ty for this video topic! very much needed

Interesting to know that the problem is contributed to by a legal loophole, thank you for covering this topic

I am always and forever so happy you boldly talk about this travesty with no sugar coating. You don’t do the white man shame groveling for karma points, you don’t care simply because of some personal emotional association, you care because it’s the DECENT HUMAN thing to. And that’s so important to come along with that purely human compassion in regards to a society, culture, identity that’s been dressed down and slandered as “savage” and “wild “. So thank you Aiden(s) for creating a fiercely safe place for indigenous peoples and encouraging others to become aware and do the same.

Thank you for highlighting this, hoping more people comment so the algorithm stops trying to hide this. This is incredibly important

You are, without a doubt, my favorite KZfaq content provider. Thank you for all of your research (from experience, I understand how much investigating, examination, analysis, triple checking sources, weeding through studies to find credible information, etc.) can go into a ten minute segment. You discuss topics that are sometimes considered divisive; you deliver the stories with a moral compass and compassion while remaining politically neutral. You deliver the facts without “dumbing down” the information. You are clearly very articulate and intelligent. I have a lot of respect for what you do. Thank you for sharing your gift of story telling with us and bringing awareness to issues some people may not know anything about.

I just want to say: I absolutely appreciate you and your content. It’s truly apparent that you sincerely love what you do as well as putting in hours of work and research into your episodes rather than the typical “repetitive” & ever changing videos of content creator’s playing “telephone” (essentially & for lack of a better term); point being- it shows and gives your audience a feeling of appreciation towards you, your content and extraordinary hard work. I’m very positive that all of your fans & followers/supporters honor your sincere effort and dedication you’ve put into your work & consistently continue to do without fail! I absolutely adore supporting content such as the “Lore Lodge” & the content/research/well rounded and impartial subject matter that you and Aiden cover, create and deliver; it is extremely well- earned!! I am extremely certain I am far from the only one who has noticed this and likely am not anywhere near the first (& far from the last), to say so! Content creators such as yourselves who genuinely put in such an extensive effort is a truly authentic reason folks choose to follow you compared with similar types of content. Myself included! Though some of the topics are similar; what you deliver and the quality it delivers (so much more information, attention to detail, obvious time devoted to extensively cover each topic, etc.), nothing is ever a “repeat” when it comes to the Lore Lodge, that’s for certain! Rather, I head straight to your channel when seeking out the complete story, background information, missing pieces in your non biased, “Tell it like it is,” manner before wasting my time with other channels OR, if perhaps I’m curious about a particular topic I’ve come across, know is in your wheelhouse and think 🤔 .. Maybe the Aiden’s covered this already, as it’s your genre- I head straight for your channel!😊 Your (keep in mind although I am saying “your”… I am also referring to the high quality and effort of Aiden the #2?… the 2nd??.. whatever he prefers to be called lol 😊😊 and his professional contribution to the channel as well) - I definitely don’t want him to feel as though he’s been left out or has gone unnoticed! The dedication you put forth into your creative process is so impressive, appreciated Important and noted. As is your knack of easily being able to expertly execute engagement behaviorally interactively with your audience, it deserves healthy praise. As a fan of true crime, mysteries (real life), missing persons cases, historical content, justice, theories, the larger, more impactful aspect of a topic including your passion for piquing the interest of everyone in TLL’s community to contribute towards exerting an effort with the ultimate objective being in order to contribute to & help incite positive change effecting the larger population! Absolutely admirable and something we should all strive to do for one another! I’ve said it a ton however, I wanted to express my gratitude for all the hard work you do. (By far, much more vastly, researched & well thought out fact-based reasoning and common sense; regardless of the category…..compared to what we’ve all been TOLD to think rather than learning HOW to think we’re all so used to seeing… teaching other’s to understand own our capabilities we can and should be utilizing to contribute to society as a whole- we have more power and control over our influence than we may believe) holding accountability towards the appropriate parties, and so on, etc. In combo with the keen ability to communicate and verbally deliver appropriate and comprehensive analysis utilizing exceptional, descriptors-AWESOME!! I especially appreciate the way in which you’re able to do all of this, while continuing to be positive about other content creators vs being competitive and/or tearing others down/obsessing over likes. You don’t even have to ask; it’s automatic:-) You have truly earned my complete support and respect. I was likely recommended your channel due to my interest in true crime, civility, accountability, integrity; unafraid to discuss topics others may consider to be “taboo,” but absolutely necessary to address (yet society as a whole generally elects to NOT engage in a dialogue about), your overall character and commitment to the work you do & the effort you put into absolutely everything you discuss. Really! (Idk- maybe because I am a “research nut” myself… I only need one episode and was hooked). Though I suppose all healthcare practitioners or perhaps those that are a bit more familiar with empathy? Or, perhaps especially (maybe), those specializing in the emotional and behavioral health aspects of life and which many times is such a challenge for others. More common these days. As is learning how to communicate actively and with empathy, avoiding making immediate, oftentimes crucial decisions based upon emotions or what one’s believed prior to being given the opportunity to understand all contributing qualities. If you ever need help with research or people, I’m your gal! I love it!! I wish there were a better way I can support you. Either way, THANK YOU for your channel and the contribution it makes in the community!!

Thank you for caring and showing much respect. That's what I love about this channel, you always give respect where respect is due and for that I will always subscribe to you

Thank you for covering! Fyi I was on your page going thru your videos and this one didn't show under the video tab. It did show in my regular feed😢

Aiden does a great job of just shooting out videos of great quality multiple times per week

Thank you for this! I have a sister in law, a cousin, and childhood friend who are MMIW. Every video, all of the attention and information and history that can be spread is helping us

YOU ARE DOING GREAT WORK!! THANK YOU FOR SPREADING AWARENESS OF THIS SITUATION. HOPEFULLY JUSTICE WILL HAPPEN IN THESE CASES. THANK YOU AGAIN. GOD BLESS.

I recently discovered Lore Lodge & am binging videos on New Years Day. 1. Please do more videos on MMIW to keep this in people's minds. 2. If i had Aiden as a history teacher, I might have learned history.

I found you on TikTok and just recently found your channel. Thank you for speaking about this topic I have a lot of people close to me that are native.

Your intro line are top notch you really be hooking me, making me invested in the video from one line

Thank you for highlighting this Aiden

Thank you for doing a video about this. It means a lot to the Indigenous communities to have someone speak up for us and to have someone care. I'm Algonquin first nations btw!

New subbie here. I'm from New York and just letting you know there are plenty of Native American reservations on the East Coast. That's the point of reservations, the government wanted them hidden. They are everywhere.

One of your best videos bro. Very concise and straight to the point on an important topic

Thank you for using your platform to talk about really important issues.

Thank you for talking about this. The only other context I've heard this discussed was in a college course. And thank you for how you framed this - like you said, we need people that will hold the feds' feet to the fire and help bring justice to those denied it and work together. Really well made video.

Had the pleasure in working with the BIA Police’s MMIW Unit. This is amazing a channel this big bringing this to everyone’s attention. Another reason why I love this channel.

Thatnk you for working to educate people and raise awareness of this 🙏

thank you. this has been happening ever since colonialism began. it’s a hard topic but it dilutes to natives have a lot more rules on reservations and any foreigners are basically exempt from said laws.

After seeing this video, and hearing Jeremy Renner's in it, I....really want to find where I can watch this movie now. I never knew this issue was this prevalent, and while it's great to watch fun feel good movies, sometimes, you need to watch the hard hitting ones, like this one, the original Godzilla, movies that aren't made to be entertainment, movies that are meant to make a statement. We live in a country that's roots trace themselves back to the Native American's way of life, I actually live in New York, near where the Iroquois used to live, and seeing how much of our government took from that, and the way we treated the Native Americans even up to today is..... We come for the conspiracy theories, stay for the banter, but these, these videos, are what really make the channel something special.

I honestly love this man's story telling. Truly an underrated channel 👏

The movie sounds excellent but, also incredibly important. Thank you so much for such a concise and interesting summary. I have to say that as an Irishman it’s fascinating to me that parallels between the narratives of First Nation people and the Irish. I’m even more humbled by the beautiful humanity of the First Nations who after living through the brutality and horror of the trail of tears, they still had the compassion and care to consider and support the Irish during the potatoes famine. It doesn’t just speak of a capacity for humility but also of loving forgiveness. I mean essentially we were just other white people, the group who decimated their culture and lives and im ashamed to say some of those white people would have been Irish. Yet First Nation people didn’t see it like that, they simply saw a group of people in a similar situation and despite having nothing, their beautiful humanity encouraged them to reach out with friendship and support. The lessons in tolerance forgiveness and genuine compassion conveyed in this act is a testament to a people who have attained a higher and more evolved form of humanity and compassion than the rest of society!

Thanks for covering this !

Thank you for bringing awareness to this.

Ok. This video and it's accompanying podcast episode has pushed me from liking you to having a lot of respect for you. You did this subject really well and I'm glad you did this with the nuance that it needs as well.

I only just found your channel! I'm gonna keep watching, but I'm also going to comment for the algorithm

Thank you for sharing resources we can donate to and work with. I did a missions trip years and years ago to a reservation and felt helpless the whole time hearing about how little help our Natives recieve. Wonder if there's a way we can normalize reaching out on a much larger scale to help?

This seems like an important topic to shed light on. Historical bad treatment of the Indians is practically all we are taught about in American history in school, but we never went into the effects that still exist today and how we can remedy them. We need to find these perpetrators and remove them to protect the innocent.

This channel will grow rapidly . Well done young man

I’ve heard this is a massive issue in Canada even more so but I bet it’s basically just widespread throughout the continent.

Thank you so much for this video.

Thank you for calling attention to the issue

I would love you to do a show EVERY YEAR on this!!! ❤❤MMIW❤❤

As a Canadian citizen I applaud and thank you for covering this topic. As a two spirit person living in Canada this affects me, on a community level. Thank you..

This movie was incredibly powerful, and so important a topic.

thanks for shining a light on this. i hope you can make a cooperation with somebody that is more involed. do you have any further links to toher youtubers or organistions trying to battle this ? would be so great of you.

Thank you for this.

Such a good video, thank You!

Yo Aiden, on a semi-related note, I'm pretty sure that septic tank Sam who was a john doe, was recently revealed to also be native American. Also I recently saw one of your videos about elves, and just wanted to mention that fillipino mythology has its own versions of elves including the dalaketnon, engkantos etc., and also that the home of the engkantos is allegedly the lost city of biringan.

I appreciate the effort it seems this issue is recently reviving towards bringing it to light even throughout the pandemic❤I understand life isn’t fair but must it be so unfair? They lose someone they care about and that’s difficult enough but then to not even have it acknowledged as a crime. I remember that during the Dexter new blood series this was the main underlying story. Because I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that something just like that could be happening with the way some refuse to acknowledge the problem. What’s really being hidden? You begin to think then it’s all too easy to disconnect with how awful that feels, so you know it’s at least half true 🍄

Thank you for making this video

Wind River is my favorite movie to watch because it is such a reality check. It’s heartbreaking.

This is awesome thanks for this

Thank you sir for your very kind attempts to bring more attention to the MMIW epidemic (4/4 Navajo)

Please do more of these about the missing native women of Montana our state has to many missing natives with no resolution ... We need more attention publicly to address why our officials of this state do not put as much attention on these missing people as we ever do ever one else....

Thank you so much. I'm a Native American woman and this hits so close to home.

me, peacefully working and listening to newer lore lodge videos: yes, peace and serenity. older lore lodge: *insense drum and guitar music at 10x the volume* :)