Courtesy Duane Garvais Lawrence
Lenice Blackbird, a 25-year-old member of the Omaha Tribe in Nebraska, left her home in late June to isolate after being diagnosed with COVID-19 and she never returned. Her body was found a few days later in the woods near a cabin in Macy, Nebraska, according to reports in the
Siouxland News.
In September, her mother, Donna Blackbird, stood with friends and family on the Omaha Reservation, holding a poster decorated with Lenice’s face and a red handprint widely used to symbolize Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) and told her family’s story to Duane Garvais Lawrence and his Facebook Live audience.
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