Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

MMIW Music Video

Community Members are invited to shoot for an MMIW music Video. 50% of proceeds will go towards MMIW advocacy and/or families. Music Created by Chi King has been respectfully researched for the cause of raising awareness for MMIW.

This collaboration will be with Native Love Organization to create a collaborative vision that helps our people, and the people of the world understand the critical call for justice for our Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women.

We thank Chi King for his integrity and strength to want to help raise awareness with his gifts and talents. This is a beautiful opportunity to use our voices for the ones who no longer have theirs.

SAVE THE DATES

We will upload Flyers as they come in with more details about each event.

4th Annual Recovery Retreat Sobriety Walk

Native Love is Collaborating with Southern Ute Behavioral Health to host a Sobriety Walk for the 4th Annual Recovery Retreat! Save the Date. More information soon to come.

Fill out the Google Form below if you are interested in showcasing your MMIR Art work!

GOOGLE FORM - forms.gle/tgKZThZ1mmEJV8LD9

Call for Indigenous Artists!

SASO and Native Love invite Indigenous artists to showcase their work at the Ignacio Public Library during the month of May.

Artwork should highlight the MMIR crisis impacting our relatives and communities.

Art is remembrance. Art is resistance. Art is healing.

For more information, please contact: raven@durangosaso.org

#MMIR #MMIW #WeWearRed #SASO #NativeLove

PAST EVENTS

New Years Walk

This walk starts at the Southern Ute Veterans Park on the Southern Ute Reservation every year.

In Loving Memory of Saaswanis Hiswaqs a.k.a. Robert Buckskin who started this walk in the early 1900's. He was an advocate for sobriety and wanted the people to know that even if it's for one day, they have a place to be sober and welcomed to join something that helps them feel good about starting the New Year. His daughter O'olcu Buckskin and his Wife Cynthia Buckskin and his grandchildren carry on this tradition in his memory that carries the meaning for the people.

PAST EVENTS!

2025 began with the annual New Year’s Day Sobriety Prayer Walk, beginning at the Southern Ute Veterans Park and ending at the Ouray Memorial Cemetery on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1. About 20 walkers braved the brisk morning temperatures to trek the five miles to begin 2025 with prayers, keeping with tradition and continuing thewww.sudrum.com/front-page-main-article/2025/01/10/walking-into-2025-with-prayers/

As done in years past, community members have walked, carrying prayers and blessings into the New Year. Beginning with prayers and words of encouragement and the purpose for the walk, as explained by organizers, Daisy Bluestar and Oolcu Buckskin “to bring the new year in, in a good way.” The walk was first organized inwww.sudrum.com/news/2023/01/13/walking-into-a-new-year/

Indigenous Fashion Show

Native Love host Indigenous Fashion Show – The Southern Ute Drum

Native Love fashion show lets youth show off in a different way | KUNC

For the past two years, Native Love has hosted a Fashion Show for their Community. This fashion show is meant to bring families together, with different fun categories for women, children, men, elders, cultural, back to school outfits, etc. In many cases the youth create their own creations where they are fully supported to be themselves. The community wears their fun, beautiful, cultural outfits enriching their own personalities. It's a great way for community to come together and enjoy each other. There is food, DJ, and lots of encouragement!

MMIR AWARENESS WALK

This walk is the first Saturday in May every year.

MMIR Annual Walk is to raise awareness for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives crisis. This is a walk/run which is for the purpose of prayer for justice and healing for indigenous communities affected by violence. This happens on the Southern Ute Reservation. It begins near Elmore's Corner in Durango Colorado and ends in the Southern Ute Reservation in Ignacio Colorado.

Collaborations:

Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Southern Ute Police Department

Nauhi Ollin Runners

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Taskforce of Colorado

The 4th annual MMIR Walk/Run saw around 30 participants begin the 15-mile trek from Elmore’s Corner (Hwy. 160/CR 172) to Ignacio, Saturday, May 3. The walk was established in 2022 by Native Love, an Ignacio non-profit to “Build Awareness” to the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) epidemic that plagues Native American communities throughout thewww.sudrum.com/news-main-article/2025/05/16/walking-with-mmir-prayers/

4th ANNUAL MMIR BIKE RUN

LABOR DAY WEEKEND!

These funds will go towards programming for MMIR. These funds will be allocated inwards towards our local community, as well as the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Taskforce of Colorado. Every Week a relative go missing. In many cases family members are left alone to start searching for answers on their own. In 2022, the State of Colorado came up with a Missing Indigenous Persons Alert. This is a way to help families get the information out statewide. In the meantime, searches are initiated for families by local Colorado Communities, and in many cases by members of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Taskforce of Colorado, Native Love members from Ignacio Colorado and Southern Ute Police Department. All funding will help our people in many ways and we give thanks for everyone who participates in Honor of the #MMIR - Fight for the #MMIR

War Party Clothing Drive

In Loving Memory of the late Margaret Hummingbird-Red (who is not in this photo, but is one of the original members in creating this clothing drive)

War Party Clothing Drive 2024

Native Love made their way to Pine Ridge to accomplish the goal of the War Party Clothing drive, in collaboration with the Southern Ute Indian Montessori Academy, GO EAGLES!, and the Pine Ridge School,-GO THORPES!

Two fully packed U-Hauls filled with clothes and shoes made their way from the Southern Ute Indian Reservation to Wanblee, SD and Navajo Mountain, AZ last month. The War-Party Clothing Drive took place in Ignacio and proved to be a success, judging by the truckloads of clothing donated around Indian Country. “The last statementwww.sudrum.com/news/2015/11/13/war-party-clothing-drive-a-success/

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