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‘It takes our own people to help our own people’
Native community honors children lost to state welfare system[/h]
Friday, November 27, 2020
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• PHOTOS: 18th Annual Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – As they have for the past 17 years, Native men and women stood atop a windswept hill overlooking the Missouri River here on Wednesday morning and prayed for the Native children lost to the child welfare system.
The 18th Annual Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children was held Wednesday in Sioux City. It began at War Eagle Park before a 31-foot statue of Santee Sioux Chief War Eagle.
Terry Medina, a Winnebago Tribal Court probation officer, began the event by invoking the name of the march’s founder, the late Frank LaMere, a Winnebago community organizer who died in June 2019 after a brief battle with cancer.





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