We talked to the cheerleader who used her high school basketball game to bring awareness to MMIW– missing and murdered Indigenous women: '(It was) so powerful that it brought tears to our eyes'
Daunnette told MTV News she spoke with the school’s superintendent a week prior to the basketball game against Wynot Public School on Tuesday ; she said that while he was supportive at first, school officials later changed their minds. “That upset me, but it wasn’t going to stop me,” she said, adding that she and her co-captain “decided we wouldn’t allow anyone to be the hand that silences us, no matter the consequences. You’re going to listen to our message.
While the elder Aldrich hasn’t been very social in the past few weeks, she made sure to be in the stands for Daunnette’s tribute. “We got there just before halftime — it took my breath away and just made me so empowered just to see her,” she said. “It was just a silent prayer and they had the pictures and a song. They showed her pictures and then they gave the pictures to us. And my grandson just hugged a picture and sat there for a few minutes just saying, ‘My mama, my mama.
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