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The Longest Walk

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Longest Walkers meet police in Columbus.  In my office is an American Indian Movement emblem, and at home is my AIM t-shirt. I became all the more interested in the movement after reading Dennis Banks's autobiography Ojibwa Warrior, and then meeting him in 2006 at the conclusion of the Sacred Run. We are both friends of Jun Yasuda, who joined Dennis from California when he went "underground to the Onondaga Reservation in New York" after California's Jerry Brown -- who refused to extradite Dennis to South Dakota concerning criminal charges over the Wounded Knee event -- left the governor's office.  1978 saw the Longest Walk, which is described by the 2008 Longest Walk page as "a peaceful, spiritual effort to educate the public about Native American rights and the Native way of life...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on June 11, 2008 (boomark / email).