KANSAS -- Longest Walk 2019 Photos by Bad Bear

Longest Walk 2019 Photos by Carl Bad Bear Sampson, Western Shoshone Long Walker. Walkers are in Dodge City, Kansas today, and ask for help. There's just a few walkers and runners now on the long stretch of Kansas walking and running for Indigenous rights, enroute to DC.
Contact for Bad Bear, text him at 775-624-4403

Photos Longest Walk 4 Dodge City, Kansas

Longest Walk 4 walking west toward Dodge City today, Wednesday. Thanks to Bad Bear for the great photos. www.returntoalcatraz.com

Longest Walk 4: Walking into Lawrence, Kansas

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Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear Sampson, Western Shoshone
Censored News

LAWRENCE, Kansas -- The Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz walked into Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013
Photos by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, thank you from Censored News! Bad Bear said today, "All the walkers left looking for other walkers to go all the way with us."
Bad Bear said at Haskell Indian University, "We circled up and said a prayer, then sang the AIM song. We have 26 miles to do each day until next Saturday, 170 miles to Wichita!"
Wednesday's photos, walking west from Kansas City:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/walking-long-walk-4-headed-west-from.html
More photos: Long walkers with students in Kansas:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/photos-long-walkers-talk-with-students.html
Long walkers harassed by Kansas police:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/native-long-walkers-harassed-by-kansas.html


If you can host the walkers in your area, or provide meals, please contact the walk at: Wabus44@gmail.com or at their cell: 202-436-6576.

Return to Alcatraz website with route and donation tab:
www.returntoalcatraz.com
KANSAS

September 19 – 26 - Topeka to Wichita, KS 161 miles

September 27 – 30 - Gathering/ support tar sands and pipeline resistance

COLORADO

October 1 – 17 - Wichita to Pueblo, CO 418 miles

October 18 – 19 - Gathering

October 20 – 31 - Pueblo to Grand Junction, CO 284 miles

Route continues through Utah and Nevada to California, more at: www.returntoalcatraz.com

Ceremony on Alcatraz: Dec. 22, 2013

Walking! Long Walk 4 headed west from Kansas City!

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By Censored News
Photos by Nikki Lopez and Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson, Western Shoshone

Photos 1 -- 6 by Nikki Lopez, photo 7 -- 9 by Carl 'Bad Bear' Sampson! Thank you! Photos of Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz Sept 17 and 18, 2013 in Kansas. On Wednesday afternoon, the walkers were on Prairie Band Potawatomi land in Kansas and headed west! The walkers will walk through Lawrence, Kansas, on Friday, Sept. 20, 2013.
Photos of Long Walkers with students in Kansas this week: 
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/photos-long-walkers-talk-with-students.html
Long walkers harassed by police in Kansas:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/native-long-walkers-harassed-by-kansas.html
The Longest Walk 4 is looking for a sponsor to cover the cost of their cell phone, $60 a month for three months. If you can help, please call the Long Walk at 202-436-6576 or donate at the Long Walk 4 website: www.returntoalcatraz.com

If you can host the walkers in your area, or provide meals, please contact the walk at: Wabus44@gmail.com or at their cell: 202-436-6576.

KANSAS

September 19 – 26 - Topeka to Wichita, KS 161 miles

September 27 – 30 - Gathering/ support tar sands and pipeline resistance

COLORADO

October 1 – 17 - Wichita to Pueblo, CO 418 miles

October 18 – 19 - Gathering

October 20 – 31 - Pueblo to Grand Junction, CO 284 miles

Route continues through Utah and Nevada to California, more at: www.returntoalcatraz.com

Ceremony on Alcatraz: Dec. 22, 2013

 

Native American Long Walkers harassed by Kansas police

Photo by Bad Bear

The sweet smell of sage and racism in Kansas

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
English and Dutch

Photo by Bad Bear

KANSAS -- Native Americans on the Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz said, "Day 64-nothing like a little racism."
Long Walkers said that after five straight days of walking they were "racially harassed" near Kansas City in Kansas. 
"Some ding dong called the police when we were circling up at the end of walking today and when we got on the van the police show up, and he claims burning sage smells like marijuana. So after some discussion, he runs me through the computer, calls three other vehicles and comes over and does a field test," Long walker said.
"Of course it comes up negative, and we are on the way but the whole incident leaves a sour taste. I told them they should improve their drug training. Earlier another police tried to stop us for jay walking. Go figure.
"Other than that it was all good. Special thanks to Steve and Nanette and family for hosting us; her father who is 91 supported us in 1978 The Longest Walk. Also to Penny and family for walking with us as well and Forest for the dinner."

Bad Bear's photos from Long Walk 4 today in Kansas and more:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/longest-walk-4-photos-by-bad-bear.html

In 2011, returning from Longest Walk 3, walkers were harassed in Ohio by police, after being attacked by police in Columbus, Ohio, on Longest Walk 2 northern route in 2008:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/07/columbus-ohio-police-target-native.html

Dutch translation by Alice Holeman NAIS Gazette, thank you!
http://www.bloggen.be/natam/

LONG WALK 4 : DE ZOETE GEUR VAN SALIE EN RACISME IN KANSAS
Door Brenda Norrell / Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Foto's : Bad Bear
KANSAS – De deelnemers van de Longest Walk 4 Return to Alcatraz zeiden : “Dag 64 – enkel maar een beetje racisme”.
De Long Walkers zeiden dat ze na 5 dagen stappen nabij Kansas City werden lastiggevallen door de politie.
“ Toen we op het einde van onze mars een cirkel vormden en salie brandden, kwam er een politiewagen aangereden. Een of andere idioot had de politie gebeld. “Salie ruikt als marihuana “ zei de politie. Na een discussie  riep hij versterking op en deed hij een test ten velde. Long Walker zei hem dat de politie dringend hun drugs training moeten aanpassen.
Daarvoor heeft een andere politie agent geprobeerd ons te doen stoppen omdat wij “roekeloos” wandelden. Wij zijn nu terug op weg maar incidenten zoals deze laten toch een bittere smaak achter.
Afgezien deze feiten ging alles goed. Wij willen Steve en Nanette en familie bedanken voor hun gastvrijheid; haar vader die nu 91 is steunde ons in de Longest Walk 1978. Ook dank naar Penny en familie die met ons meestapten  en Forest voor het diner."
In 2011 werden walkers, op hun terugweg lastiggevallen door de politie, nadat zij aangevallen waren door de politie in Columbus, Ohio tijdens de Longest Walk 2 northern route in 2008:
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/07/columbus-ohio-police-target-native.html

Shannon Rivers, Akimel O'otham, standing up for Indigenous Rights

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indian Nation became the first in the United States to ratify the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Shannon Rivers, Akimel O'otham from Gila River in Arizona, speaks on the importance of this action on Censored News Blog Talk Radio.

"We hope it becomes customary law, throughout the United States and the world ," Rivers said of the Declaration, speaking on Earthcycles' Longest Walk Talk Radio at the end of the Longest Walk.

Pointing out that the Declaration includes rights at borders and self-determination, he said Gila River undertook this hallmark move in commitment and solidarity with Indigenous Peoples worldwide, on May 21, 2008.

Rivers also describes the visit by Bolivian President Evo Morales to the United Nations in New York and the disrespect this world leader has been shown in the U.S. Rivers also describes how Homeland Security used fear after 9/11 to increase fear of migrants. Ultimately, the US profiteered with jails and prisons.

Further, Rivers discusses how the lifestyle and foods of the colonized U.S. has damaged the health of Indigenous Peoples in the Sonoran Desert. Rivers said there is a revitalization on Gila River of people growing traditional foods in their fields.

"Indigenous Peoples are some of the richest peoples," he said, during the interview a Greenbelt Park, Maryland. "We have many languages and we can learn many songs, many teachings."

Rivers urged Indigenous Peoples to stand up with courage and fight for what they believe in, with sacred walks and sacred runs, protection of sacred places and listening to the stories of the elderly.

Rivers is joined by Phillip Morris, Navajo from Page, Arizona. Morris describes the abuses of the US government and Peabody Coal in the destruction of Navajo lands and aquifer water.

"They call it 'Relocation.' I don't care what you call it, it is another way of the government saying, 'We want your land,'" Morris said.

Morris said the strip mining of Peabody Coal has resulted in the springs drying up. While Peabody Coal drained the aquifer, most Navajo people were hauling their water there. With words and millions of dollars, the U.S. and Peabody has continued with their ways, he said, "Of keeping us poor."

Morris said, "Healing is within us, but when we do it together as a group, in unity, it is more powerful."

"It all starts with prayers. We have to start coming together," Morris said, urging people to go to sweatlodges and learn from others.

Also, on the blog radio show, Long Walkers speak in tornado-hit Greensburg, Kansas, a town that was more than 90 percent destroyed by a tornado in 2007. Adriano Buckskin, Luv the Mezenger, Calvin Magpie, Jr., Paul Owns the Sabre and Rebecca Duncan speak as Long Walkers over a feast to the community. The show includes a song by the Miwok youth singers who were Long Walkers.

Recorded live by Earthcycles, producer Govinda Dalton, and cohost Brenda Norrell, on the Longest Walk northern route across America, Feb. through July, 2008.

Listen: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Brenda-Norrell

Radio stations may rebroadcast in whole or part. Please credit Earthcycles.

Photo 1: Shannon Rivers as master of ceremonies at the Longest Walk Concert in D.C. Photo by Brita Brookes Photo 2: Phillip Morris and Shannon Rivers onboard the Earthcycles radio bus on the Longest Walk in Greenbelt Park, Maryland, in July 2008, during this interview. Photo Brenda Norrell

Contact Shannon Rivers at:
sunriverhawk@aol.com