'Empty Place at the Table' honors Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Day

Families gather at University of Montana for Indigenous awareness day event

MONTANA — Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day brought families, advocates and community members together at a campus event focused on remembrance and awareness.

University of Montana event honors missing and murdered Indigenous people

A community event at the University of Montana on Tuesday is bringing attention to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP) through storytell

'Empty Place at the Table' honors Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Day

A first-of-its-kind event took place at the University of Montana on May 5.The event featured dinner plates set for relatives lost to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis."No one can tell what we've experienced better than ourselves. So, it has to come from the families as hard as it is," Carissa Heavy Runner said.Mika Westwolf was hit and killed outside Arlee in 2023. It took nearly two years to secure a conviction.For Heavy…