PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) – A Native American-led organization held a vigil in southeast Portland on Saturday to honor and grieve missing and murdered Indigenous children.
The vigil celebrated the lives of 2-year-old Dane Paulsen and 14-year-old Emily Pike, and allowed tribal members to say goodbye to both young lives cut short by tragedy.
“When you hear that drum, that’s the heartbeat, that’s the soul of Native people, and that these kid’s lives and their souls aren’t forgotten,” Kimberly Lining says…