Cold case arrest gives Natives hope for unsolved homicides [Video]

SIOUX CITY — Monday’s announcement of an arrest in a 41-year-old cold case has given local Native American communities hope that other unsolved deaths may someday have a similar ending.

It also shows the need for continuous efforts to raise awareness of the thousands of Native women who have been killed or gone missing nationwide and whose cases remain unsolved.

Omaha Tribal Council member Galen Aldrich, speaks Friday at a press conference at the Great Plains Action Society’s office in Sioux City to offer tribal support of efforts that led to the arrest of a suspect last week in the 1983 homicide of Omaha Tribe member Terri McCauley. At left is Trisha Rivers, Great Plains Action Society Siouxland Project Director and, center is Hayden Parker, an Omaha Tribe member from Walthill, Nebraska, and Red Sky Nation MMIR (missing, murdered, indigenous relatives) Powwow Princess. Aldrich’s daughter, Ashlea, was found dead in …

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