Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Day events coming up in May [Video]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – The National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People is coming up on May 5. The day seeks to highlight those who haven’t made it home and to comfort those who are desperately seeking answers.

What would it be like to make a missing-person poster for someone you love? Too many Native American families in South Dakota face that reality.

“This is a sensitive issue for us. Because people have to realize that our women are hunted. And that’s still in existence today,” said Melanie Stoneman, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Domestic Violence Program Manager.

At the SWO Reservation, families, friends, and survivors will join on May 5 to comfort each other during Murdered Indigenous People’s Day

Melanie Stoneman with the tribal domestic violence and sexual assault program helps organize the gathering.

“They come and bring their pictures. It just displays and …