Navajo woman walks across the country to raise awareness about missing indigenous people

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A Navajo woman hopes to raise awareness about missing and murdered indigenous people by walking across the country.

Seraphine Warren hopes her walk brings attention to hundreds of missing and murdered indigenous people all across the country. She became an advocate after her aunt, 63-year-old Ella Mae Begay, went missing.

Warren said, “Sometimes I feel like, will I be able to go another year without her, without finding her, without getting answers. I do have families that have been waiting 35 years. That’s the longest I know.”

She’s walking across the country. She started her journey in Sweatwater, Arizona and plans to walk all the way to Washington D.C. -- a distance of 2,330 miles.

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