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Seraphine Warren: Long Walk to Justice

2024/7/15
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Ella Mae Begay, a 62-year-old Navajo woman, mysteriously disappeared from her home in Sweetwater, Arizona, in June 2021. Her niece, Seraphine Warren, became determined to find her and bring attention to her case.

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Seraphine Warren rose to prominence as an advocate for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women – walking 2,400 miles from Arizona to Washington, D.C. to draw attention to her missing aunt Ella Mae Begay, who disappeared from a Navajo Reservation in 2021.

But while she spoke out publicly against the decades-long wave of violence against indigenous people, Warren allegedly led a vigilante kidnapping similar to the violence she ferociously condemned.