Earlier this year, the Sioux City Journal published Stolen lives: The epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, a special three-part series by reporter Dolly Butz, multimedia producer Jesse Brothers and visual editor Tim Hynds.

Dolly Butz spent over a year on the project, investigating the national epidemic affecting Native women and examining steps that tribal officials and others are taking to stop the cycle of violence against Native women.

Rooted in conversations with victims’ families, interviews with tribal officials and activists working to raise awareness of ​ missing and murdered Indigenous women, Dolly's articles used profiles of four Native women in Siouxland, whose deaths are either unsolved, or the result of domestic violence, to ground and personalize the series.

For the first episode of our show, Teri Barr followed up with Dolly about the work that went into the reporting out the series and where things stand in the wake of her articles.

You can find the Stolen lives series and more of Dolly Butz's work, along with a full collection of images and videos HERE:

https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/special-journal-report---stolen-lives-the-epidemic-of-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/collection_580ffb59-ceb4-5102-80cd-7639339aebbf.html

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