"Not one more": Minnesota launches task force on missing and murdered indigenous women

Mary Lyons, an Ojibwe elder, fought back tears as she heralded what she called a "new beginning for indigenous women" in Minnesota: the launch of a state task force to address disproportionately high rates of violence against American Indian women and girls.

"Today we as indigenous women rise, we are not being forgotten," Lyons told a crowd gathered on St. Paul's East Side on Thursday. "We can call each of our missing and murdered women's names out loud and embrace them into louder prayers. Today we let them know they did not fall to their deaths only to be forgotten."

http://www.startribune.com/not-one-more-minnesota-launches-task-force-on-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/560823612/