UpDate - Vol. 11, No. 19, Page 8
February 13, 1992
Trans-America walkers plan overnight stay in Newark

     Walk Across America for Mother Earth participants, who range
in age from 6 to 72, will arrive at the University Feb. 14.
Approximately 100 walkers, who represent several European
countries, are making the pilgrimage to raise public awareness of
the contemporary situation of Indians during the quincentenary of
Columbus, according to Robert Longwell-Grice, assistant director
for housing and residence life.
     The Delaware section of the walk is sponsored by Pacem in
Terris of Wilmington. The University will house approximately half
the group in the Russell Residence Hall Complex, with the other
half staying in churches and private homes. The group will present
programs at Russell that evening, Longwell-Grice said.
     The walkers began in New York and will continue to Washington,
D.C., through the Mid-West and end at the Western Shoshone Nation,
which encompasses the Nevada nuclear test site. They will arrive
there on Columbus Day, Oct. 12, and be joined by other groups for
an alternate Columbus Day celebration.
     According to the Mother Earth organization, Columbus'
discovery in 1492 meant for Indians the beginning of "the
destruction of their cultures, their homelands and their existence
as a people," and this walk is to designed to draw attention to the
"violation of rights of native people over the past 500 years" and
to point out that all of the 378 treaties signed between native
nations and the United States have been broken and continue to be
violated.