For the fifth time, Ida Tuttle carried a picture of her then 11-month old nephew, Kristopher, for the annual March and Rally for Our Lost Children Wednesday.
The memory of her nephew helped Tuttle cross the Veteran’s Bridge here despite the day’s 20 mph winds. Carrying Kristopher’s picture helped Tuttle’s family find him after pictures of a previous march were published. Kristopher, now 6, lives in Tama, Iowa with a foster family.
“But he is always with us,” Tuttle said.
Tuttle was one of more than 125 American Indians that marched to draw attention to what they called the continued overrepresentation of Indian children in foster care. Marchers also remembered the Indian children who have died while in foster care. full story
