Butte Artist’s Photo Exhibit Hits Close to Home [Video]

BUTTE — A Butte-based artist and activist has been using her photographic eye to bring awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous people and for one grandmother gathered here at the Butte library for the artist talk, the issue hits way too close to home for her.

Butte Artist Fights to Bring Awareness to Missing and Murdered Indigenous People

“What brought me here today, painfully, is that this isn’t talked about,” says Kim Leathers. “The hardest part was that I needed to let my granddaughter know because she is one of the targets.”

Leathers is a member of the Little Shell Tribe, and she works as a counselor in Butte. She says she made a difficult decision to bring her twelve-year-old granddaughter along, even though the Missing and Murder Indigenous Women topic is somber and even scary.

“I don’t want to scare her. I don’t want to scare her, but I have to warn her. So, she can be safe. She needs to be …