Crow Creek walk calls for end to violence

Community members on the Crow Creek Reservation held a walk Aug. 15 to honor Garrett Hawk and other Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, according to ICT. Hawk, Crow Creek Dakota, was killed in front of his home two years ago. About 50 people walked from the Missouri River to the Fort Thompson Community Center, where families gathered with photos and posters of loved ones lost to violence.

The walk also called attention to gun violence just days after two men, Teron Sazue and Tayshawn Battese, were shot and killed on the Lower Brule Reservation. “Every young life lost to gun violence is an unspeakable tragedy,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in an Aug. 15 statement. He later issued a state of emergency for all Oceti Sakowin lands in South Dakota following the shooting.