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FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
During which decade did Native American activists march in The Longest Walk?
A
1950s
B
1960s
C
1970s
D
1980s
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Several hundred American Indian activists and supporters march for five months from San Francisco to Washington, D.C., to protest threats to tribal lands and water rights. The Longest Walk is the last major event of the Red Power Movement.

Detailed explanation-2: -At a rally across the street from the state Capitol, march organizer Dennis Banks told a crowd of several hundred, “We are forced to walk for survival.” Banks, who had helped to found the American Indian Movement in 1968, had also been instrumental in organizing the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lehman Brightman and others in the Longest Walk. On July 15, 1978, a peaceful transcontinental trek for Native American justice, which had begun with a few hundred people departing Alcatraz Island, California, ended this day when they arrived in Washington, D.C. accompanied by 30, 000 marchers.

Detailed explanation-4: -On July 15, 1978, the “Longest Walk”-a 2, 800-mile trek for Native American justice that had started with several hundred marchers in California-ends in Washington, D.C., accompanied by thousands of supporters.

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