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Aug 2021
40m 14s

The Secrets of Spirit Lake

NBC NEWS
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A woman who helps solve cases searches for her missing niece and pushes for change as part of the growing movement to save missing and murdered Indigenous women. Andrea Canning reports.

Find resources to help stop violence against indigenous women: https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/mmiw-how-help-how-get-help-n1277833

Andrea Canning catches up with Lissa Yellow Bird-Chase in Dateline’s ‘After the Verdict’ series, available exclusively to Dateline Premium subscribers. They discuss what cases Lissa is working on today, and the loss of another person close to Lissa who disappeared earlier this year. Listen here: https://dateline.supportingcast.fm/listen/dateline-nbc-premium/after-the-verdict-the-secrets-of-spirit-lake

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