Hundreds gather to march in Grand Rapids for missing and murdered Indigenous people

Violence faced by Indigenous people is not simply a decades-long problem; it is a 500-year problem that continues to pervade every Indigenous family, said Melissa Pope, chief judge of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi Tribal Court. She spoke Friday during a Grand Rapids event to create awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous people. […] The post Hundreds gather to march in Grand Rapids for missing and murdered Indigenous people appeared first on Michigan Advance.

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