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Yellow Bird-Chase Assaulted (Allegedly) by BIA in North Dakota [1]
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Date: 2022-09-30
Lissa Yellow Bird-Chase is a hero.
Yellow Bird-Chase is a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. In 2013, she helped start Sahnish Scouts, an organization that helps search for missing and murdered Indigenous people. Since the organization’s founding, more than a hundred families have sought Yellow Bird-Chase’s support in cases where their loved ones are unaccounted for. Sahnish Scouts not only publicizes missing persons but also searches for them, assisting or filling in for law enforcement.
Who became a victim herself by the BIA while driving a client she had rescued from sex trafficking to a rehabilitation center.
According to the complaint, Yellow Bird-Chase was driving a client she had rescued from sex trafficking to a rehabilitation center when she was pulled over for speeding in February of 2021. BIA officers took her to the Standing Rock Detention Center where the lawsuit claims they forced her to remove her clothes in the main booking area in front of several officers, robbed her of more than $800, stole her prescription medication. The lawsuit also claims she was subjected to abuse, assault and inhumane conditions in an overcrowded, unsanitary jail cell without access to food for nearly 18 hours.
The ACLU of North Dakota says Yellow Bird-Chase’s experience highlights law enforcement’s racial profiling and abuse toward Indigenous women. This case seeks to hold the United States accountable and draw awareness to the danger Indigenous women like Yellow Bird-Chase face in their daily lives.
“What happened to Lissa Yellow Bird-Chase is shameful and reprehensible,” said Stephanie Amiotte, ACLU of North Dakota legal director. “The emotional and physical distress these officers inflicted upon Lissa is severe, traumatizing and could only be born out of a fundamental disregard for her humanity and abuse of power by law enforcement officers. Our government should not treat people this way.”
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