Gabby Petito, gained global attention. As world watches Gabby Petito case, Indigenous women ignored: advocates “I felt like my voice wasn’t important, my daughter wasn’t important because she was Native American,” King said on Friday from her home in Crownpoint, New Mexico.She is being helped by Native American activists who note how much more media coverage was given to Petito, a 22-year-old white woman, compared with missing and murdered women of color.“It’s systemic racism, it’s the historical and inter-generational trauma that continues to perpetuate these stigmas that black and brown people are not as important as white people,” said Jolene Holgate, a director for the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women.