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SAVE THE BEE & CLIMATE AWARENESS WALK
KICKOFF - MAY 4TH- SATURDAY - 10:00 AM
AVI RESORT & CASINO
SAND AREA OF COLORADO RIVER
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                          Walk Against Drugs & Domestic Violence
                 Save the Bees & Climate Change Gathering
                                   
                                 Peach Springs, Arizona

                                      May 18th thru May 20th, 2019

Come share your desire for a better tomorrow without drugs, alcohol and domestic violence.  Please come and walk with us and share your words and prayers.  We can all make a difference.

It is evident that drugs, alcohol and domestic violence runs rampant everywhere and it is our responsibility to help, if we want to see positive changes.

We will discuss the extinction of Honey Bees and changes in our climate.  Mother Earth has been bleeding too long!!!!

Itinerary:
Saturday, May 18th Arrival to Peach Springs

Meet 2 miles West of Peach Springs Route 66 @ 1:30 pm
Start Walk into Peach Springs @ 2:00 pm

2:00 pm- Arrive to Agriculture Building to walk into community-HPD Escort
2:30 pm- Arrive and Gather at Route 66 Park:
  1. All Bird Singers/Dancers to welcome walkers
  2. Prayer by:  Ivan Bender
  3. Welcome & Introduction: by Mike Whatoname and Tribal Council Members
    • Bobby Wallace-Presentation
    • May include other tribes participating in walk and awareness
    • Recognition of those community members in sobriety
5:00-6:00 pm- Dinner and Bird Singing to continue
  1. Healing House/Wellness Court clients to set up and serve meal
  2. Plates/Utensils/Wash Station provided by Cultural/Youth Council
  3. Wellness Court/Probation/Healing House clients to also assist in serving and cleaning up.
6:00 pm- Close with Prayer-Volunteer
7:00 pm- Cultural Department to set up camp-HPD Security checks

Sunday May 19, 2019
7:00-8:30 am- Meet at Cultural Center Patio for breakfast
  1. Continental Breakfast-Provided EW4H
  2. Depart to Diamond Creek after breakfast
10:30-11:00 am- Approximate Arrival to Diamond Creek/River
11:00 am-4:00 pm- Prepare afternoon visit
  1. Prayer Offering:  Bobby Wallace & Guests
  2. BBQ Luncheon:  Youth Council members/Wellness Court/Healing House/Probation clients, also clean up and wash stations
  3. Story Telling/Pictures/Singing/Enjoy Mother Earth
4:00 pm-6:00 pm- Return to Peach Springs
6:00 pm-7:00 pm- Guests to retire at Cultural Department for camping-HPD Security checks
  1. Dinner/Buffet at Lodge for guests-30 approximately
  1. Prayer to end evening.
Monday May 20, 2019
6:30-7:00 am- Morning Prayer for continued walk
7:00-8:00 am- Cultural Center patio-Continental Breakfast-Provided by EW4H
8:00-9:00 am- Depart from Peach Springs to Camp Verde/Prescott-HPD Escort
 
*EW4H- Employees Working 4 Health
*Wash Stations- to help prevent usage of Plastic/Styrofoam waste
*HJDC- Hualapai Juvenile Detention Center
*HADC- Hualapai Adult Detention Center
 
For more detailed information please contact:
Mike Whatoname:  928-699-2031                          Monique Alvirez:  928-769-6002
Barbara Burnside:  928-313-4490

​Finalized by:  Monique Alvirez, Probation Supervisor

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May 2019
​The Longest Walk 5 distributes a four-page anonymous survey that will be compiled into one report. The data collected is of personal, community, and cultural experiences regarding substance abuse and domestic violence. We continue to collect and receive data through our partner events.  Jessica and the team are building on the initial phase of the  analysis. We are in the process of building the best team to prepare the presentation to congress in 2020.

January 2019

Community Impact
Throughout this journey the walk has heard inspirational stories of hope, love, and light in regards to the issues of drug abuse and domestic violence. The walk has also heard of the despair that plagues the nations. The walk has seen that children as young as 6 years old are affected by these issues of drug abuse and domestic violence. Families are stepping forward and voicing the despair that has come upon them because of drug abuse or domestic violence. In communities where victims never had a voice before, the walk has heard story after story, about how these victims have been abused and are now coming forward. Native communities are crying out and rejoicing that the Longest Walk 5 has become an outspoken voice for the issues that have been swept under the rug for too long. This walk has seen families, united on a stage and stronger than ever, share stories of recovery and love. The walk has also seen young women and men who are still engaged in the hardship of drug abuse and have not found their recovery. The Longest Walk 5 is the most important walk to ever happen, because the effects of drug abuse/alcohol abuse and domestic violence affect everyone and are happening at devastatingly high rates.



November 2018 Update
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to advancing the walk forward!

We went beyond the survey collection goal and are currently working on the presentation to Congress. The purpose of collecting these surveys was to present a tangible source of data that demonstrated the impact of drug abuse and domestic violence on reservations and across the nation. Data collected from these surveys will help both the communities surveyed and the nation, to better understand the impact of drug abuse and domestic violence, as well as highlight some successful interventions or programs that may be replicated on a larger scale. 
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National Chief                                              
                                        
Bobby Wallace

Executive Director                                                                                                
Carol Collins
carol@dennisbanks.biz
nowacumig@gmail.com
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Data Director                                                                                                       
Jessica Sutterlict                                                                                      

Program Consultant 
​Paul Komarek                                                                           

komarek@humanintervention.net                                                      

​A very special thanks to Walter for creating our logos and the LW40/AIM 50 anniversary logo as well as the National Field Director logo for Dennis Banks. We were able to use it on his stationary before his passing. He was proud and grateful!


All logos copyrighted. For more information contact Walter Copenhaver at acuimaging@yahoo.com.
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Dennis Banks is a Native American leader, teacher, lecturer, activist, and author. He is an Anishinabe, Ojibwa, born on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota. In 1968 he co-founded the American Indian Movement (AIM), to protect the traditional ways of Indian people and to engage in legal cases protecting treaty rights of Natives-such as hunting and fishing, trapping, and wild ricing.

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