MINNEAPOLIS — On a gorgeous spring day in Minneapolis, dozens of runners and walkers gathered at Theodore Wirth Park with a shared purpose: to honor loved ones lost and raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
Organized by Native Women Run, the event served as both a spiritual gathering and a call to action.
“This is a prayer run. This is a spiritual run,” Brook LaFloe with Native Women Run said. “As we’re moving our bodies, we’re giving up our strength to our relatives and our ancestors who have gone on or who are missing, and we offer that strength to them.”…