One after another, hundreds of hands tossed red roses into Humboldt Bay to commemorate lost loved ones. Petals scattered as the voices of singers carried over gray water. People from all over had gathered Monday to call for action for the missing and murdered Indigenous people of the area, to remember those they have lost.
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Students from Eureka high school, red handprints painted on their faces, were filling sidewalk cracks with red sand outside the Humboldt County Courthouse Friday.
For Yurok tribal member Billee Willson, the loss of her mother shaped her life. In 1972, when Willson was 15 years old, her mother was shot and killed by her ex-husband. The death of her mother left Willson and her siblings without an identity.