SANTEE -- Officials continued to search for Ashleigh Mae Wabasha, Wednesday. They spent the day scouring the spacious hills and banks of Niobrara. Wabasha's uncle, a firefighter, said he hopes they don't find her -- rather, that she ends up calling.

"One time, a couple of years ago, I was mad and sitting back out by our porch. She goes, 'have you ever heard of the cup song?' -- and she was hitting her legs, singing along! I couldn't tell you what I was mad about, but it brought me out of my mood," said Michelle Denney. 

Denney said her 19-year-old daughter, Ashleigh Mae Wabasha, has never gone so long without contacting anyone. After being reported missing Sunday (March 27th); firefighters, police, and the Knox County sheriff's office have received leads from all over -- even Kansas.

"There's a lot of opinions and a lot of rumors but nothing we know yet," Santee Sioux Nation Police Chief Robert Henry said. 

"At this point, we've received so many leads that she could be anywhere," Santee Sioux Nation vice-chairman Kameron Runnels said. 

Runnels said missing and murdered indigenous women and men is a large national-scale problem, but he's never seen it hit Santee. He believes trafficking isn't likely there. Other possibilities exist, too. 

"One of the last times I saw her wasn't so great [...] I worry about her because when she drinks she can't handle it," DeWayne Wabasha, her father, said. He last saw his second-eldest, Ashleigh, Sunday morning. "My job is to protect her, but I feel bad because I can't."

Her father continued, he's scared something happened to her.

Meanwhile, her sister hopes Ashleigh is hiding, since she was on probation.

"I just want her to come home," Dawayna Wabasha, her 18-year-old sister, said. People have been calling in when they see Dawayna, as the sisters look very similar. However, their personalities vary greatly, according to their mother. Denney said Dawayna is the more mature one, despite being younger. 

"[Ashleigh] is way funner than I am [....] she always wants to go do something, so the kids go to her not me," Dawayna said. "When we're in the car she always sings and doesn't care how she sounds."

"Like the cup song, she could sing that in public!" her mother joked. On a more serious note, Denney said, "I wrote my nieces today and told them, contact your mom or dad every day to tell them where you are, because this is the hardest thing to go through, not knowing where your baby is."

Santee Sioux Nation Police Department told NCN they'll continue to search every lead until she is found. 

"Ashleigh, if you see this, contact your family and let them know you're ok," Runnels said. He coached her in basketball and said the entire town knows and misses her. 

"I feel that she's around, I have to be confident that she's around," Dewayne Wabasha said. He's currently working on requesting time off work so that he can search for her himself. On a larger scale, he hopes the community can do more, too -- in regard to changes in Santee's laws and also in sharing more education with youth. "The cops are limited in what they can do [...] Whatever God you pray to, you have to meet them halfway," DeWayne Wabasha said, elaborating that everyone can do more. 

The police recommend the Knox County Sheriff Department ((402) 288-4261) as the quickest way to reach dispatch -- as their own officers have been spending the days out looking. If the search takes long enough, they could reach out to Nebraska State Patrol for a helicopter search.

She's five feet four inches tall and weighs 120 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.