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, a popular Instagram personality, went missing while traveling the country with her boyfriend, the national media lit up with the news. The coverage was nonstop as the search for her consumed her friends, family, and the country. Some scholars call this “

” and say it happens regularly. Is the media solely to blame?

 show that about 15 percent of Minnesota’s female missing persons cases every month are American Indian women and girls. In any given month from 2012 to 2020, 27 to 54 Native American women were missing in Minnesota. 

dedicated to addressing missing and murdered Indigenous women, as well as a 

 looking into missing and murdered African American women and girls.

MPR News host Angela Davis focused on Minnesota’s promise to Indigenous communities to redress the long-standing dismissal of missing and murdered Indigenous people. State Sen. Mary Kunesh, DFL-New Brighton, joins her along with other activists and a media watcher to discuss a better way to turn our attention to this phenomenon other than relying on news coverage and public interest. 

Editor’s note: MPR News with Angela Davis will talk about the task force on missing and murdered African American women and girls on a future show.

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, a popular Instagram personality, went missing while traveling the country with her boyfriend, the national media lit up with the news. The coverage was nonstop as the search for her consumed her friends, family, and the country. Some scholars call this “

” and say it happens regularly. Is the media solely to blame? What about missing Indigenous women? 

When Gabby Petito, a popular Instagram personality, went missing while traveling the country with her boyfriend, the national media lit up with the news. The coverage was nonstop as the search for her consumed her friends, family, and the country. Some scholars call this “missing white woman syndrome” and say it happens regularly. Is the media solely to blame? What about missing Indigenous women? 


MPR News with Angela Davis - When Gabby Petito, a popular Instagram personality, went missing while traveling the country with her boyfriend, the national media lit up with the news. The coverage was nonstop as the search for her consumed her friends, family, and the country. Some scholars call this “missing white woman syndrome” and say it happens regularly. Is the media solely to blame? What about missing Indigenous women?

Where's the media attention for missing Indigenous women?

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