SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Twenty-three years ago, many indigenous families in the Siouxland community were seeking answers.

Children were taken from their families and placed into foster care, but some of them never made it back home. So families took action in the only way they could; they started protesting.

“It was a hard dynamic,” said Organizer Manape LaMere. “People didn’t have answers, and we were demanding them, and then eventually that turned into a memorial march to honor children that have died in foster care due to their foster parents, and then also to make a prayer and remember our children that are in foster care that have been disconnected from their culture, their family.”

For some families, the march means more than just remembrance and prayer.

“We know that a lot of parent

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