Until last year, Indigenous Peoples’ Day had not been formally recognized by any U.S. president. The long-overdue commemoration reflects a broad trend of ignoring the contributions by members of Indigenous communities, and, as such, the ways in which historical trauma—a term that describes how colonization and violence can affect families and communities for generations—has affected these groups.⁠ ⁠ On the 326 reservations in the U.S., the deaths and disappearances of Native American women are more frequent, less visible, and often harder to solve, due to ineffective law enforcement and prejudice. When Ashley Heavy Runner Loring vanished without a trace from her home on Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation, her family was dismissed by authorities despite these documented vulnerabilities. But around the country, a remarkable movement, driven by Native women themselves, is leading the charge to find them. At the link in bio, revisit Christa Hillstrom’s 2019 story for Marie Claire on these invisible victims, and the fight to make them seen.