Her aunt was one of many indigenous women who have gone missing or been found murdered. Now, Rosalie Fish is running track to raise awareness about the epidemic.
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00:00The red is the color of the MMIW movement and the handprint is to represent the women and specifically the native women that have been silenced through violence.
00:10Music
00:25Missing and murdered indigenous women is an epidemic that you can't really ignore when it's happening to your family and your community.
00:33And to me, when I realized that I could use the state track meet as an opportunity to present this issue, it was something that I knew I needed to do.
01:03Music
01:18I watched the news and I just started shaking and trembling because it said the body was there for a long time.
01:25And I called Mary and she called the tribal police. She called me back next day and said it was her.
01:32And I just broke down because 14 months I was looking for her every day, not knowing if she was hungry, being abused in any way.
01:50But I was grateful that we got her back, our prayers were answered.
01:56Music
02:04We were glad we found her, but we wanted to know, well, what are you guys doing to find the answers? How did she get out there?
02:13And was there any foul play? And they couldn't answer it for us.
02:19Music
02:44I looked at it as she's giving a voice to those who have been silenced.
02:49I was glad she's being remembered and thought of. Her life mattered. She mattered to us.
02:56Music
03:05Right now what I'm hoping for is accountability. A lot of police brutality has been happening in especially my native community.
03:12And I think accountability as well as violence against women acts need to be taken seriously and really understood that this is an epidemic and it's genocide.