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Mesa, Arizona – 6 March 2025
1. People along roadside with protest signs
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jadyn Palmer, Cousin of Emily Pike:
"And the last conversation we we talked to her with was when she said she was going to return within a month."
3. People at vigil
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jadyn Palmer, Cousin of Emily Pike:
"But like not even a week later or like two weeks later she ran off. And she ran off and none of us really knew that she ran off. Until some of us seen the missing person report of her or they finally told our grandma./And then a month later they come down to our house and they tell us that she’s gone. That she was no longer with us."
5. Wide of people at vigil standing in circle
6. People at vigil lighting memorial candles
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) April Victor, Relative of Emily Pike:
"In the Indigenous world, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) is what we use in awareness all across what we call Turtle Island, Indian Country, all Native American tribes. And this is an awareness to bring, shed light on all the missing and murdered indigenous women you hear all the time especially as a Native American. And then, and then all of a sudden it happens to your own. It hits so close to home."
8. Various of vigil
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9 . SOUNDBITE (English) April Victor, Relative of Emily Pike:
"For this occurrence to happen, not only that, to happen to your own family and, it’s such a horrific experience."
10. People at vigil chanting name Emily Pike
STORYLINE:
From heartbreak and devastation to outrage, Emily Pike’s tragic death is stirring heavy emotions and spotlighting a crisis that has long plagued Native American communities, where a disproportionate number of people have been killed or have gone missing.
In the case of the San Carlos Apache teenager, she disappeared from her group home in a Phoenix suburb in late January.
Authorities posted her picture on social media, saying she was missing and had possibly run away. It was nearly a month later that sheriff’s deputies in a neighboring county reported finding and identifying Pike’s remains more than 80 miles (129 kilometers) from where she was last seen.
Since then, news of her brutal death has reverberated through Indian Country and beyond. A crowd gathered Thursday at an intersection in Mesa, near her group home, to honor Pike’s life and to press for changes that might help curb the violence.
Dozens of people of all ages from various tribal nations viewed the vigil’s program on a large inflatable projector. Clad in red, they embraced, shielded candle flames on the windy night and held posters that read “No more stolen sisters” and “Justice for Emily Pike.”
Four of Pike’s cousins, all close in age to her, recounted a girl they knew as a funny, kind and happy person who loved animals, K-Pop and Roblox. Jadyn Palmer, 15, said she and Tyraya Steele, another 15 year-old cousin, grew up with Pike on the San Carlos Apache reservation. The three were a trio and were always by each other’s side and laughing, Palmer said.
She said Pike would call her every so often and the last time they spoke was just weeks before she disappeared. In their last conversation, Pike shared she was going to return to the reservation within a month. Palmer and Steele became excited about the shopping trips they wanted to plan.
The girl’s basketball team at Miami High School in Arizona wore jerseys with “MMIW” and a red handprint on the back.
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