Red Dress Special honors MMIP

Powwows provide Native communities a space to celebrate kinship through dance. As this summer winds down and winter approaches, we remember how the August 2025 Long Soldier Wacipi in Fort Yates, North Dakota paid homage to our missing and murdered Indigenous friends, family and relatives.

In July 2025, Buffalo’s Fire created the first Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples news beat in the United States, hiring a reporter in the partnership with Report for America.

MMIP video by James Brugh. James edited the video with photos and video submitted by Jodi Spotted Bear, Erin Hoover-Barnett, and Jolan Kruse.