“Since colonization, Native women have been targeted,” we’re told in a new trailer for “Murder in Big Horn,” a three-part Showtime docuseries investigating the disappearance and possible murders of a group of Native American women in rural Montana.
“Within the last decade, dozens of young Indigenous women and girls from the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Nations have been murdered or have gone missing from Big Horn County and its surrounding area; arrests are rare in these cases and convictions virtually non-existent. When grieving Native families press law enforcement for answers, they are met with either indifference or silence,” the project’s synopsis details.
As one community member explains, “The darkness that has happened is this black cloud — the vapor, that energy, just consumes your whole tribe.” Another interviewee emphasizes, “You can get killed real easily around here.”
Directed by Razelle Benally and Matthew Galkin, “Murder in Big Horn” premieres on Showtime February 3 and its first episode will screen at Sundance later this month.
