“The journey in this realm is very hard to describe,” a victim's sister told the crowd.
Written By: C.S. Hagen
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Demonstrators take part in a march for missing and murdered Indigenous people on Friday, May 7, 2021, in Fargo. C.S. Hagen / The Forum
FARGO — The march for missing and murdered Indigenous people on Friday, May 7, was quiet, with demonstrators keeping to sidewalks and obeying traffic signals, but the event was made powerful by the tragic stories survivors of violence shared with the nearly 100 people who attended.
Before speeches began in Fargo's Island Park, Christy Goulet, a Native American woman from Dilworth, Minn., moved a bucket of fragrant burning sage through the crowd, smudging people for cleansing.