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Friday, October 9, 2020
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor
CUSTER, South Dakota — Bird Cage Book Store and Mercantile proprietor Lily Mendoza of Rapid City says she will be here in town to speak on behalf of the families of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women during Zonta Club of the Southern Black Hills’ annual women’s film festival on October 10 – even though it’s on the same date as the grand opening of her new storefront and non-profit community service center 45 miles away.
A founder of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Red Ribbon Skirt Society of the Black Hills and the associated Center for Prayer…Healing and Remembrance, housed at the book store, Mendoza plans to speak about the recent unanimous approval in both chambers of the U.S. Congress of Savanna’s Act to enhance law enforcement for protection of MMIW and Two-Spirit family members, she told the Native Sun News Today.
“The bill is on the President’s desk, but who knows what’s going to happen now,” she said. Raising awareness about the issue at the Ninth Annual LUNAFEST® is an opportunity too important for her to miss, she acknowledged.
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