Donna Chrisjohn has gotten two speeding tickets over the past six years. One listed her as white; the other, Hispanic. Each a reminder that her ethnicity, and the heightened threat of violence she …
Donna Chrisjohn has gotten two speeding tickets over the past six years. One listed her as white; the other, Hispanic. Each a reminder that her ethnicity, and the heightened threat of violence she faces as an indigenous person, is too often ignored.
The work is poised to bear fruit after a vote in the General Assembly. The bill would create a specific office — led and steered by indigenous people — to address the disparities, help investigate the cases, create best practices around investigating those crimes and more intentionally track and respond to cases of missing indigenous people.
In a statement, Polis spokesperson Conor Cahill said the office supports the goals of the bill, and addressing the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people, and working toward that goal. He added, “if this can’t be resolved legislatively we are confident we can do so through other means.” “I trust our community being empowered, to be given a powerful seat at the table, and get in these agencies and help them do right by us,” Raven Payment, of the Ojibwe Mohawk Nation, said. “We just need this seat at the office.”Shannon Suburyan of Denver joins a rally and march in honor of National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives at Acacia Park in Colorado Springs on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
The office Chrisjohn and Payment and their group proposed, and ushered through both chambers of the General Assembly, would be formally titled the Office of Liaison for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. The bill serves as “a giant step to help repair the harm that has been perpetuated since contact,” Payment said.
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