Carrying red roses and wearing masks with red handprints, women and children walked along the Kotzebue Sound shore Sunday to remember relatives and friends who were murdered or have been missing.
Grace Norton holds a photo of her niece, Ashley Johnson-Barr, who was murdered in Kotzebue in 2018. Kotzebue residents walked along Shore Avenue and scattered rose petals in remembrance of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People on May 7, 2023.
The walk coincided with Missing or Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Day events nationwide. Shylena Lie, manager at Maniilaq Family Crisis Center, who organized the walk, said the event was intended to help Kotzebue residents support each other and process their pain.was murdered in Kotzebue“It’s a healing process,” Mona Norton said. “With my niece, I still have a lot of rage in my veins. So it’s good for me to come out.
“While our masks say, ‘No more stolen sisters,’ we also do not want more stolen brothers,” Lie said. “We have not forgotten about our family and friends.”Phyllis Norman, whose cousin was killed just a couple of houses away from where she lives, said she hopes events like this will help other women to speak up about the violence they go through and encourage residents to watch out for each other.
“It’s important for them so they understand what’s going on in our community and throughout the world,” Norton said.
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