January 6, 2015
More than 70 Navajo people joined a prayer walk across the American Southwest protesting a fracking oil pipeline in New Mexico. The walk aimed to galvanize Native American communities to demand more from oil companies that profit from the reservations’ natural resources. The group called this 1,000-mile protest their Journey for Existence, commemorating the 150th anniversary of “The Long Walk,” where thousands of Diné (Navajo people) were marched at gunpoint for hundreds of miles into Bosque Redondo, a concentration camp where they would stay for four years.
