'We have to protect one another': Bemidji event honors Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives

Wisconsin, Minnesota officials join march for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives

Local officials from Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin spoke to the crowd gathered for the 11th annual Memorial March for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) on Valentine’s Day in Duluth. The movement to address the scourge of…

'We have to protect one another': Bemidji event honors Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives

BEMIDJI — Although the weather was unseasonably warm during Saturday’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives event at Paul Bunyan Park, MMIW 218 Organizer Valahlena Steeprock vividly recalled a colder time. With dozens gathered outside Bemidji's Tourist Information Center, many dressed in red and holding signs displaying the names of lost loved ones, Steeprock spoke of the searches she and her family conducted in the early months of her cous…

Annual MMIWG2S+ march continues to advocate for systemic change

Over 100 people attended the 35th annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Spirit+ people (MMIWG2S+) memorial march on Feb. 14, amid hundreds of incomplete calls to action from Indigenous advocates towards the Canadian government.