Juliana Doerner places a red handprint over her mouth to shed light on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People at a Tolowa Dee-ni' Nation awareness walk last year. | File photo: Jessica C. Andrews

The Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation will hold a walk through Crescent City on Friday calling awareness to missing and murdered indigenous people.

This is the second awareness walk the TDN has spearheaded. Organizers will offer sign-making and face-painting stations at the Del Norte County Fairgrounds starting at 9 a.m.  Once the walk is finished, family members will have a chance to speak about their loved ones, said Chelsey Cook, the TDN’s MMIP coordinator.

“You can put the red handprint over your face if you want to,” she said. “Light snacks will be provided inside and we’ll give instructions on where we’re walking.”

The Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation will open its awareness walk to the entire Del Norte County community. To register, click here.

Cook said the TDN’s goal is to bring more awareness to those that have gone missing in Smith River and the nation’s service area as well as missing and murdered indigenous people overall.

Cook said one of her cousins went missing in Oregon and when calling tribes in the area some didn't have an MMIP program. Cook said she and her mother worked with the Yurok Tribe’s MMIP investigator, Julia Oliveira, to bring him home.

“My goal is to bring more awareness and broadness to missing, murdered and indigenous people so we can bring our relatives home,” she said. “It was outside of law enforcement where we found him in Oregon, and I have an aunt who was murdered in 1997.”
Cook said her aunt’s name was Lillian Lincoln and she lived in Humboldt County.

The Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation’s MMIP Awareness Walk will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday starting from the Del Norte County Fairgrounds.

To register, click here.

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