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Murdered and Missing Indigenous Persons awareness walk held at Rocky Boy
Police violence discussed by many
Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson
Mary Watson prepares to start walking Wednesday near Laredo Road at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Walk. Watson walked in honor of her sister who was killed two years ago in Rocky Boy s Indian Reservation.
More than 30 people showed up to a Murdered and Missing Indigenous Persons awareness walk Wednesday at Rocky Boy s Indian Reservation, with many attendees having been personally touched by the ongoing issue, as well as by police violence. President Joe Biden declared Wednesday to be Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day.
Elaine Maestas remembers her sister, Elisha Lucero, going out of her way to help people.
“Even if it was like the last of her money, the last 20 dollars, and she knew you needed gas to get to work, didn t matter if you were a friend, a family member or somebody that she just met, she would help you out,” Maestas said.
Lucero was a pillar for her family. She was a loving aunt to Maestas’s children and a caregiver for her father when he became ill. But after she got in a car accident, Maestas said, “we really noticed a drastic, drastic change – that she was starting to not really be herself.”