Colorado MMIP advocates say more work still needs to be done [Video]
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Colorado MMIP advocates say more work still needs to be done [Video]

IT’S A BITTER COLD MORNING IN IGNACIO, COLORADO, ON THE SOUTHERN UTE RESERVATION. COMMUNITY MEMBERS GATHER FOR A PRAYER WALK, RAISING AWARENESS AND HONORING LOVED ONES OF MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES. THIS WALK IS A POWERFUL REMINDER OF THE ONGOING CRISIS AFFECTING INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES, WITH MANY FAMILIES STILL WAITING FOR ANSWERS. TEN YEARS, FIVE YEARS, 20 YEARS AND THEY’RE STILL HOPING AND WAITING. DESPITE THE PASSAGE OF TIME, THE PAIN REMAINS FRESH AND THE PEOPLE, THE FAMILY ARE THE ONES WHO ARE HURTING THE MOST BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE THAT CLOSURE. ACCORDING TO COLORADO’S MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS RELATIVES ONLINE PORTAL, THERE ARE CURRENTLY 38 OPEN INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. SOME ARE MISSING PERSONS INVESTIGATIONS, BUT A MAJORITY OF THEM 27, ARE COLD CASE HOMICIDES. WOMEN ARE GOING MISSING AT AN RATES AND NO ONE IS LOOKING FOR THEM. ACROSS THE STATE, THE CRISIS SEEMS TO BE GROWING. ADVOCATES …

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OUR FREE APP. A NEW MEXICAN WOMAN LOSES HER CHILDHOOD HOME AFTER IT BURNED DOWN IN HOBBS. SHE TELLS ALYSSA MUNOZ. THIS HAPPENED WHILE HELPING OTHERS IN HER COMMUNITY GO THROUGH THE SAME THING. BUT IN CALIFORNIA. SASHA JASMINE BAEZA SAYS WHILE THE CALIFORNIA FIRES DIDNT REACH HER DOORSTEP, SHE STEPPED UP TO HELP OTHERS IN HER COMMUNITY WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED. NOW, WHAT SHE DIDNT REALIZE IS THAT SHED ALSO BE HELPING HER FAMILY DO THE SAME THING MILES AWAY. EVERYBODY WAS WORRIED ABOUT ME IN LOS ANGELES, AND IT TURNED OUT THAT WE LOST A HOME BACK HOME IN NEW MEXICO. LOS ANGELES IS JASMINE BAEZS HOME AWAY FROM HOME FOR THE LAST 12 YEARS. SHE, LIKE MANY, WATCHED AS FIRES BURNED DOWN COMMUNITIES NEAR HER. IT WAS REALLY SCARY TO SEE THE FACT THAT THESE FIRES WERE RAVAGING THROUGH HOMES AND LAND, ACRES AT A TIME. IT TOOK, I THINK, OVER 5 TO 6 DAYS BEFORE THEY STARTED TO GET ANY CONTAINMENT ON THESE FIRES. A FEW DAYS LATER, BAEZA GOT A CALL. HER FAMILY WAS SEEING SIMILAR FLAMES MILES AWAY. I WAS JUST IMMEDIATELY SHOCKED. UPSET, CRYING. BUT MY GRANDMA WAS SAFE. MY GRANDPA WAS SAFE. A HOME BUILT 30 YEARS AGO BY HER GRANDPA AFTER IMMIGRATING HERE. GONE. WERE ALL REALLY UPSET THAT THE. ALL THE MEMORIES THAT WE BUILT WITHIN THAT HOME ARE GONE. SHE HAD THAT HOUSE SO MANY DIFFERENT COLORS LIKE GREEN, YELLOW, ORANGE, PINK. IT WAS JUST OUR LITTLE MEXICAN OASIS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN. NOW SHES SEEING WHATS LEFT OF HER CHILDHOOD HOME THROUGH FACETIME. OFFICIALS SAY THE FIRE WAS CAUSED BY A HEATER THAT WAS PLUGGED IN OVERNIGHT. AT THE END OF THE DAY, EVERYBODYS GRATEFUL, FEELING A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT THINGS. AND LIKE I SAID, WERE NOT FACING CHALLENGES LIKE WILDFIRES STILL GOING. SO FOR ME, THATS BEEN A LITTLE DIFFERENT WHERE IT JUST FEELS LIKE THIS HASNT THAT WE HAVENT REACHED A COMPLETE STOP. BUT ON THE BRIGHT SIDE, THEY DO HAVE A LOT MORE CONTAINMENT ON THE FIRES OUT HERE. AND THAT WILL ALSO HELP MY FAMILY FEEL BETTER. BAEZA SAYS HER FAMILY HAS GOTTEN A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY, AND GLAD EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO GE