Detective with 2 Dogs and a Dollar Store Notebook

🚨The Lissa Yellowbird Chase Story🚨

"I could have been one of those women in a ditch." - Lissa Yellowbird Chase

Meet Lissa Yellowbird Chase, an Arikara woman who transformed from a crack-addicted prison inmate into one of the most effective searchers for missing and murdered Indigenous people in North America. In this raw, unflinching interview, Lissa reveals how spiritual visions in prison led her to found the Sahnish Scouts and organize over 100 search efforts across the United States and Canada.

What You'll Learn:
-The Brutal Reality Behind MMIW Statistics
-Why Indigenous women are murdered at 10x the national average
-How jurisdictional confusion between tribal, state, and federal authorities
creates deadly gaps
-The shocking truth about missing Indigenous men and boys that nobody
discusses

Practical Search Methods That Actually Work
-Why you need a dollar store notebook before calling police
-How to demand report numbers and document everything
-The power of unfiltered social media posts for identification

Meet Gada and Badou: The Cadaver Dogs
-How two rescue dogs became trained death detectives
-Lissa's plan to place search dogs on every reservation
-The spiritual connection between handler and working dogs

Hard Truths About Indigenous Communities
-Tribal politics that silence victims' families
-Unqualified service providers exploiting the system
-Why shame keeps families from reporting missing relatives

About Lissa Yellowbird Chase:
-Founded: Sahnish Scouts (2013)
-Recognition: 2015 Arc of Justice Award, featured on NBC Dateline
-Book: Subject of "Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in
Indian Country" (Pulitzer Prize finalist)
-Impact: 100+ organized searches, multiple successful recoveries
-Cost: Does this work unpaid, relying on donations and personal savings

Resources:
If you or someone you know is missing:
-National Missing and Unidentified Persons System: namus.nij.ojp.gov
-National Indigenous Women's Resource Center: niwrc.org
-Sovereign Bodies Institute: sovereign-bodies.org

Support This Work:
-Lissa travels across the country at her own expense to help families find their missing loved ones.

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses violence against Indigenous women and may be triggering for some listeners. Please prioritize your mental health and seek support if needed.

This interview was conducted with full consent and cooperation from Lissa Yellowbird Chase. All stories shared are her own experiences and perspectives. For more information about her work, visit the Sahnish Scouts social media pages.