Indigenous activists gathered on Alcatraz for the ceremony beginning the Longest Walk to Washington. The spiritual and political mobilization opposed proposed federal legislation threatening treaties, land and resource rights. It presented Indigenous peoples as nations defending sovereignty, rather than merely individuals seeking inclusion. Ceremonies and public education joined political organizing in challenging the continuing structures of settler colonialism.
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The walk opposed proposed legislation threatening collective treaty and resource rights and linked spiritual life with sovereignty.
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