"My name is Yvonne Swan. I am an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation... [Maddesyn's] case is very similar to mine, which became a landmark State Supreme Court case (State of WA v. Wanrow) establishing the right of women to self-defense." (1/4)
"The federal prosecutors scared her like the state did me at first. If she and I were affluent white women, and our rapists were Native men, would the police and prosecutors have treated us so badly?" (2/4)
"It is such a frontier mentality, what they are doing to come after a Native woman like this... She is part of a spiral of violence that Native women live through. We demand justice for Maddesyn and all Native women whose freedom is taken by violent, racist systems." (3/4)
Yvonne Swan drew the eagle featured in @FreeMaddesyn's logo: "The eagle helped get me through my 7 year court battles from beginning to end, in my dreams, visions, physical apparitions, and thoughts. I pray the eagle helps Maddesyn." (4/4) 
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