'Our women go missing everyday, and a lot go with their cases unsolved and unfound. It is a big problem in Indian Country. It is something I feel like needs to be talked about.'
that she and her cheer team held a memorial for Aldrich during a recent high school basketball game to call attention to the manywhose cases are never solved. The red hands painted over the team's mouths, Daunnette said, represented the people who seek to silence them.
"[During] half time, we grabbed pictures of [Aldrich] and stood on opposite sides of the gym and formed an 'A' in the middle. We had a moment of silence and showed pictures of her off to our fans," Daunnette told"We presented those pictures to her parents, and myself and my teammates gifted them a blanket and a beaded necklace and beaded earrings.
Daunnette's memorial was the first one Tillie Aldrich attended, she said, and she was touched by the outpouring of love and. Tillie Aldrich said she hopes it not only calls attention to her daughter's death, but to the many indigenous women who go missing or are murdered. "I live on a reservation, it's word of mouth. We can report [someone missing or dead] to the authorities," Tillie Aldrich said. "If we have a non-Native [person] missing in a city 25 miles north of us, it's all over the news, the newspapers, posters going up. If we have someone missing, one of our Native missing, they try to keep it quiet.", Native women face murder at a rate 10 times higher than the national average.
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