Hundreds march for missing and murdered Indigenous women

Feb 18, 20200

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A woman walks with a sign along 15th Street in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's walk on Friday in Bemidji. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer)

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Jingle dress dancers make their way around the drum circle at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's event on Friday at BSU's Beaux Arts Ballroom. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer)

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Bemidji seventh-grader Karmalynn Marshall, right, who said she was suspended from Bemidji Middle School for painting a red handprint across her mouth and cheeks, speaks at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's event on Friday. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer)

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Hundreds participate in the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's walk on Friday in Bemidji. (Jillian Gandsey / Bemidji Pioneer)

BEMIDJI -- Almost everyone walking on Saturday had a name to say or a picture to show -- almost everyone had a story to tell.

Natasha Kingbird told the story of 35-year-old Krista Fisherman from Redby, who was stabbed in a Bemidji parking lot in 2015. Francine Jackson-Senogles told the story of her 19-year-old niece, Jojo Boswell, who was never heard from again after she walked out of the Steele County Jail in Owatonna in 2011.

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