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Family frustrated by lack of search efforts in Native America woman Olivia Lone Bear's disappearance

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in New Town, North Dakota, her brother Matthew Lone Bear told Dateline. Olivia had five kids under the age of 14, after all, and they were her primary responsibility.

She was in-between jobs, so that’s all she did – take care of them,” Matthew told Dateline. “She stayed at the house and cooked dinner at night and got the kids to school in the morning.”

Matthew said Olivia, 32, loved being with her kids. Tragically, her youngest child, an infant, passed away. Matthew said Olivia didn’t seem depressed anymore, though, and didn’t show signs of obvious stress.

“The last time we saw Olivia, she was just herself,” Matthew told Dateline. “She was acting really outgoing and cooked dinner for the family. Just everyday things.”

Life was back to normal. But life was about to drastically change.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/mis...orts-native-america-woman-olivia-lone-n828561
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LisaWL7TR said:
Family frustrated by lack of search efforts in Native America woman Olivia Lone Bear's disappearance

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in New Town, North Dakota, her brother Matthew Lone Bear told Dateline. Olivia had five kids under the age of 14, after all, and they were her primary responsibility.

She was in-between jobs, so that’s all she did – take care of them,” Matthew told Dateline. “She stayed at the house and cooked dinner at night and got the kids to school in the morning.”

Matthew said Olivia, 32, loved being with her kids. Tragically, her youngest child, an infant, passed away. Matthew said Olivia didn’t seem depressed anymore, though, and didn’t show signs of obvious stress.

“The last time we saw Olivia, she was just herself,” Matthew told Dateline. “She was acting really outgoing and cooked dinner for the family. Just everyday things.”

Life was back to normal. But life was about to drastically change.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/mis...orts-native-america-woman-olivia-lone-n828561
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Is dateline doing a story on this ?


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That is a huge vehicle that can handle bad weather- pretty hard to hide as well......... the water worries me
 
LisaWL7TR said:
Anonymous contributions have more than doubled the amount of a reward for information about a missing woman on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

Olivia Lone Bear, a mother of five, disappeared in late October. Additional donations to the reward fund in recent days have pushed the total to $21,000.
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Hoping that Olivia, mother to 5 children, comes home safe. Sending positive thoughts.
 
JerseyGirl said:
still missing: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/11/29/native_american_woman_olivia_lone_bear
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From 11/29/17:

"We look at the case of Olivia Lone Bear, yet another Native American woman who has gone missing in the oil fields of North Dakota. We speak with her brother, Matthew Lone Bear, who is part of a daily search to look for his sister since she went missing on October 25 in New Town, North Dakota. Olivia Lone Bear is the mother of five children. We also speak with Mary Kathryn Nagle, a Cherokee writer and lawyer.

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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

AMY GOODMAN: You’re talking about violence against women, and we’re joined now via Democracy Now! video stream by Matthew Lone Bear, brother of Olivia Lone Bear, who went missing October 25th in New Town, North Dakota. She’s the mother of five. Matthew is part of the daily ground search for his sister. The Bismarck Tribune reports Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman Mark Fox is talking to federal, state and tribal leaders about getting more support for the search. In addition to Mary Kathryn Nagle, we are joined now by Matt Lone Bear.

Can you tell us what you know about your sister?

MATTHEW LONE BEAR: She was outgoing, and, yeah, she liked to hang out at casinos and bars, and she also, you know, really cared for her children.

AMY GOODMAN: And do you know where she is?

MATTHEW LONE BEAR: No clue. We have been searching—this would be our 29th day. Yeah, we’ve—the last known video that we found, she’s going west on Main Street in New Town. It was taken off a bank camera. So that’s the most updated version that we have. And she still has a vehicle.

AMY GOODMAN: When you hear this story, Mary Kathryn Nagle, your thoughts? Certainly, Olivia Lone Bear is not the first Native American woman who has gone missing in North Dakota.

MARY KATHRYN NAGLE: No. And I just want to say, first and foremost, that, Matthew, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your entire family, and that no one should have to go through this. But, unfortunately, as you point out, Amy, this is all too common. And we have the highest rates across the United States, again, in Indian country, of violence, but in particular in North Dakota, where the rates of oil extraction have skyrocketed since 2005 in the Bakken oil boom.

As a result of that, over 100,000 men from outside of the state of North Dakota have moved to the state of North Dakota to live in man camps that the oil companies have set up. And, unfortunately, as Senator Heidi Heitkamp has noted, as the former U.S. attorney for the state of North Dakota has noted, the resulting rates of violence, drug, of course, and crime and burglary have skyrocketed, but also, in particular, domestic violence and sexual assault, including rape and sex trafficking.

And numerous leaders, both at the state and federal level, have now noticed that North Dakota—some of the towns in North Dakota within the Bakken boom and some within the Fort Berthold Reservation, where Olivia is from, now have some of the highest rates of sex trafficking in the United States.

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Matthew Lone Bear, could you talk about how local authorities have been dealing with the disappearance of your sister? Do you feel that they are making this a priority?

MATTHEW LONE BEAR: Uh, no. I think there definitely needs to be a policy put into place here, definitely. We’re kind of all learning together right now. And, I mean, we still haven’t gotten any like water support from the local PD. But I think it’s all new to us altogether. So, there definitely needs to be a policy put into place.

AMY GOODMAN: And what are your—what is your family calling for now, Matthew?

MATTHEW LONE BEAR: We do still need water support. We do need people on the ground, definitely, because the Fort Berthold Reservation is over a million—or just about a million acres. So that’s a lot of ground to cover. The more people we can get in before the snow falls and before the lake freezes—you know, we want to get as much done as possible before then.

AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you both for being with us. Matthew Lone Bear, brother of Olivia Lone Bear, missing from New Town, North Dakota. We’ll continue to follow Olivia’s story. And Mary Kathryn Nagle, joining us from Oklahoma, a citizen of Cherokee Nation and a partner at the Pipestem law firm, dedicated to the restoration of tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction."
 
LisaWL7TR said:
Family frustrated by lack of search efforts in Native America woman Olivia Lone Bear's disappearance

Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in New Town, North Dakota, her brother Matthew Lone Bear told Dateline. Olivia had five kids under the age of 14, after all, and they were her primary responsibility.

She was in-between jobs, so that’s all she did – take care of them,” Matthew told Dateline. “She stayed at the house and cooked dinner at night and got the kids to school in the morning.”

Matthew said Olivia, 32, loved being with her kids. Tragically, her youngest child, an infant, passed away. Matthew said Olivia didn’t seem depressed anymore, though, and didn’t show signs of obvious stress.

“The last time we saw Olivia, she was just herself,” Matthew told Dateline. “She was acting really outgoing and cooked dinner for the family. Just everyday things.”

Life was back to normal. But life was about to drastically change.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/mis...orts-native-america-woman-olivia-lone-n828561
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"On October 24, 2017, Olivia went to the local Sportsman’s Bar with friends. According to a release by the Three Affiliated Tribes Police Department (TATPD), Olivia was last seen leaving the bar in a teal Chevy Silverado 2500 HD LT with the North Dakota license plate 839-BRC; Matthew said he was asked not to comment on whether she was alone when she left, because it’s an open and active investigation.

Matthew says it seems that Olivia did come home after leaving Sportsman’s, though. He told Dateline that family members later found her cell phone, wallet, and money at her home on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. In the home, family also found the items of clothing Olivia was last seen wearing."
 
There is so much information linked in all the articles everyone posted. I could be here for hours quoting additional snippets. I highly recommend everyone click and read all the articles in their entirety.
 
LisaWL7TR said:
Anonymous contributions have more than doubled the amount of a reward for information about a missing woman on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.

Olivia Lone Bear, a mother of five, disappeared in late October. Additional donations to the reward fund in recent days have pushed the total to $21,000.
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Another msm? article I saw early this a.m. stated $20,000 vs the above of $21,000. No link at this time.
 
margarita25 said:
"On October 24, 2017, Olivia went to the local Sportsman’s Bar with friends. According to a release by the Three Affiliated Tribes Police Department (TATPD), Olivia was last seen leaving the bar in a teal Chevy Silverado 2500 HD LT with the North Dakota license plate 839-BRC; Matthew said he was asked not to comment on whether she was alone when she left, because it’s an open and active investigation.

Matthew says it seems that Olivia did come home after leaving Sportsman’s, though. He told Dateline that family members later found her cell phone, wallet, and money at her home on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. In the home, family also found the items of clothing Olivia was last seen wearing."
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If she came home then the assumption would be either she left her home with no plan to return or she was abducted from it... I have not yet seen the details of where her home is located but could someone come there without being seen or detected by the kids? Have they looked into the cell phone yet? Could it be possible she got a phone call or message from someone she knew and just thought “I’m going to quickly run out and come right back” unaware that the person she was meeting would harm her?

I’ll go off on a limb here, would it also be possible that while still grieving her loss she had a mental breakdown of sorts and just walked off? Some people who are suicidal tend to present a happy image right before they do something... just a theory...


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amoreau25 said:
If she came home then the assumption would be either she left her home with no plan to return or she was abducted from it... I have not yet seen the details of where her home is located but could someone come there without being seen or detected by the kids? Have they looked into the cell phone yet? Could it be possible she got a phone call or message from someone she knew and just thought “I’m going to quickly run out and come right back” unaware that the person she was meeting would harm her?

I’ll go off on a limb here, would it also be possible that while still grieving her loss she had a mental breakdown of sorts and just walked off? Some people who are suicidal tend to present a happy image right before they do something... just a theory...


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Anything is possible at this point, no doubt.

My gut tells me she has encountered foul play. I think LE thinks so too, moo, considering they mentioned they are talking to a man.
 
linkus said:
not trying to take any attention away from Olivia's case, but I just wanted to add a reminder of another woman who went missing a year ago, not too far from this area. Larissa Lone Hill was last seen October of 2016 and imo there hasn't been nearly enough media attention given to her case. http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/lo...cle_58620e50-fcb7-5d44-bd28-6b0320885377.html
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Thanks for the reminder - I remember reading about Larissa:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ll-21-Rapid-City-2-Oct-2016&highlight=larissa

While I think both of these girls may have been hurt by someone they knew, I could also see them both being the victim of the same person or circumstances.
 
margarita25 said:
"On October 24, 2017, Olivia went to the local Sportsman’s Bar with friends. According to a release by the Three Affiliated Tribes Police Department (TATPD), Olivia was last seen leaving the bar in a teal Chevy Silverado 2500 HD LT with the North Dakota license plate 839-BRC; Matthew said he was asked not to comment on whether she was alone when she left, because it’s an open and active investigation.

Matthew says it seems that Olivia did come home after leaving Sportsman’s, though. He told Dateline that family members later found her cell phone, wallet, and money at her home on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. In the home, family also found the items of clothing Olivia was last seen wearing."
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This is very telling. She made it home. Considering that LE doesn't want the brother to comment whether she left with someone or not, probably means that she did leave with someone and he may have seen video footage of it.
 
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