Ignacio Bobcats host MMIW Awareness Event at SunUte

Friday - February 14, 2020 by Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
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Voices of Our Sisters, including, IHS Girls’ Basketball volunteer assistant coach Maria Rivera (far left) and Lady Bobcat JV/varsity swing player Helaina Taylor (second from left), perform a special Honor Song during the Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women awareness event at the Ignacio High School Bobcats basketball games against Nucla, Saturday, Feb. 1, in the SunUte Community Center.
Sky Hawk Nation Drum Group performing at SunUte, accompanied by cultural dancers from Fort Lewis College.
Sky Hawk Nation Drum Group performing at SunUte, accompanied by cultural dancers from Fort Lewis College.
Ignacio Girls Basketball head varsity coach Justa Whitt receives an appreciative hug from Southern Ute Tribal Chairman Christine Sage
Southern Ute tribal member Daisy Bluestar with The Voices of Our Sisters, presents attendees with facts and statistics on the MMIW crisis in Indian Country.
Event speakers Robyn Ludecker (left) and Sunni Rose James (center) listening to facts and statistics facts and statistics about the MMIW crisis in Indian Country.
Watched by varsity regular Makayla Howell (left), Ignacio’s Helaina Taylor, a JV/varsity ‘swing’ player for the Lady Bobcats this winter, firmly applies a painted handprint onto a poster.
Ignacio varsity regular Larissa Gallegos adds details to an informative poster, explaining why some of the affixed handprints are red, others white, and still others black. The posters were part of IHS Girls’ Basketball’s promotion of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women awareness. Team members decorated SunUte Community Center’s main entry hallway with posters like this, as well as other pictures and documents so spectators filing in to the Lady Bobcats’ Feb. 1 games versus Nucla could learn about MMIW.
An Ignacio Girls’ Basketball team member donates her handprint to an informative poster for the Lady Bobcats’ promotion of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women awareness.
Enlisting assistance from JV player Kourtney Schurman, Ignacio varsity regular Avaleena Nanaeto (right) inks in the rough outline of her MMIW poster. Her “Somebody’s Daughter” piece proved to be an eye-catcher to attendees.
Ignacio JV/varsity swing players: Elizabeth Valdez, left, and Laci Brunson affix a self-explanatory poster to a designated area within SunUte Community Center’s main hallway, as part of IHS Girls’ Basketball’s campaign for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.
Ignacio JV/varsity swing player Bella Pena looks through a sheaf of missing-person notices, displayed inside SunUte Community Center.
Ignacio varsity player Charlize Valdez coats her hand with as much paint as necessary to create a handprint befitting an informative poster, to be used in the Lady Bobcats’ promotion of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women awareness.
Ignacio varsity player Monika Lucero inspects an informative MMIW poster inside SunUte Community Center. Posters like this, as well as other pictures and documents offered spectators filing into the Lady Bobcats’ Feb. 1 games versus Nucla the chance to learn about the team’s cause.
Ignacio JV player Autumn Smith examines her replication of a borrowed design, in order to properly decorate an informative poster suitable for inclusion in IHS Girls’ Basketball’s promotional exhibit inside SunUte Community Center’s main hallway.
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
Photo Credit: Joel Priest | Special to the Drum
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Voices of Our Sisters and the Ignacio High School Girls Basketball team collaborated to bring awareness on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) at a home game versus Nucla, Saturday, Feb. 1 at the SunUte Community Center in Ignacio. The event began with a song and prayer from Councilman Bruce Valdez, and a welcome from Chairman Christine Sage. During halftime, facts and statistics on MMIW were given by members of Voices of Our Sisters with a moment of silence following. An Honor Song was also performed for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women across Indian Country.

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