Warrior Girl Unearthed

Content Warning: This section discusses anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism; the kidnapping, murder, and rape of Indigenous women; sexual abuse and “grooming” of underage people; and mistreatment of human remains.

Monday morning there’s another missing woman, Razz. Web opened up two new hiring lines in the Tribal Police Department to focus on creating missing and murdered databases. Perry tells Web she suspects that Lockhart got the Ojibwe items he’s donating via illegal grave robbing on the land he owns on southern Sugar Island.

At work, Perry researches Frank Lockhart. She finds an announcement for his marriage to Claire’s mother, Caron, from the early 1990s. Then, she finds news articles about Caron going missing shortly thereafter and supposedly running away to France without a word to her child or family.

Early Thursday, Perry finishes transcribing the Elders’ stories, which inspires her to go see the museum’s display of baskets. On the bulletin board, Darby’s missing photo is replaced with Razz’s.

Inside the museum, Perry passes Cooper talking to Fenton. Since she no longer works there, Perry makes a passive, veiled comment about how long Fenton’s inventorying is taking. As she looks at the baskets, Perry thinks about the Elders’ stories of boarding schools and lost knowledge.