Local activist Lisa Tiger’s world changed overnight in 2007 when she received a phone call telling her that her 18-year-old daughter, Shelleigh Poor Bear, had been murdered by her boyfriend. That boyfriend, who was convicted in the case in 2009, had planned the kidnapping of Poor Bear, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, for weeks before he took her to a motel room and stabbed her more than 10 times in the presence of their 10-month-old baby.

“It was devastating,” Tiger said. “Never in my life had I expected to get a call like that.”