KESHENA, Wis. (AP) - When 12-year-old Ayanna O’Kimosh steps into the ring, she feeds off the energy of the crowd chanting her name.
“My favorite thing about boxing is probably the support I get from the community,” she said. “It keeps me going.”
The national boxing champion out of the Menominee Indian Boxing Club in Keshena has more on her mind than fame and glory.
Ayanna is determined to never become a victim of the phenomenon of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, or MMIWG, and sh