A Colorado nonprofit has started acquiring drones for missing and murdered indigenous relatives in search and rescue efforts
DENVER — Each year dozens of people from Indigenous communities across the country and in Colorado go missing. Most recently in the state, 28-year-old Raeanna"Nikki" Burch-Woodhull's body was found on December 3, around a week after she was last seen.
Historically, Martinez says her experience is that these SARS efforts have been slow because of the red tape between tribal and state jurisdictions. She’s hoping this nonprofit’s efforts will help speed up the efforts for the sake of families. Before any of these drones can be used out in the field, though, the volunteers must undergo FAA training and get a drone operator’s license to be able to fly. The nonprofit is leaning on Indigenous members with prior military experience to help with the training and to come up with the protocols for how these aerial search and rescue volunteer efforts would work.
“I know how it feels to be helpless and to not be it to not have anyone care. And just knowing that when I got out, everyone was looking for me, I can't just forget,” White Owl Thin Elk said. The group says it doesn’t intend to be large but it is looking for volunteers who are committed and willing to work long hours to bring the families answers. That effort goes beyond drones to include dogs, aquatic searches and more.
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