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Title: Indians protest broken promises.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PHOTO NUMBER: PC-50900. INDIANS PROTEST BROKEN PROMISES. SAN FRANCISCO -- Dennis Banks, right, and Bill Wah, outspoken native-American activists, explaining to reporters why they are walking cross-country from San Francisco to Washington D.C.\nThey are scheduled to end "the longest walk" with 52 other protestors in June or July at the Capitol, where they will fight 11 bills pending in Congress that they believe abrogate Indian treaties with the U.S. government. (According to Mr. Banks, 372 of 391 U.S.-Indian treaties have never been honored.) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CP-SANF-3A-78-JH)
Creator Name(s): Wright, John. (photographer)
Date Created: 1978, March 6, 1978, March 6, 1978
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Banks, Dennis, 1937-2017., Wah, Bill.
Topical Subject(s): Indigenous peoples--Political activity--United States--20th century., Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--United States--20th century., Civil rights demonstrations--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects: United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., Sacramento (Calif.), North and Central America--United States--Sacramento--California--Sacramento
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 41, image no. PC-50900; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-50900a
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:293408

Title: Indians walking across country to protest breaking of treaties.
Creator Name(s): Religious News Service. (publisher)
Date Created: 1978, March 6, 1978, March 6, 1978
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Banks, Dennis, 1937-2017., Dellums, Ronald V., 1935-2018.
Topical Subject(s): Indigenous peoples--Political activity--United States--20th century., Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--United States--20th century., Civil rights demonstrations--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects: United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., Sacramento (Calif.), North and Central America--United States--Sacramento--California--Sacramento
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 41, image no. PC-50900; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-50900_02
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:293374

Title: Indians protest broken promises.
Description: Text transcribed from caption: PHOTO NUMBER: PC-50900. INDIANS PROTEST BROKEN PROMISES. SAN FRANCISCO -- Dennis Banks, right, and Bill Wah, outspoken native-American activists, explaining to reporters why they are walking cross-country from San Francisco to Washington D.C.\nThey are scheduled to end "the longest walk" with 52 other protestors in June or July at the Capitol, where they will fight 11 bills pending in Congress that they believe abrogate Indian treaties with the U.S. government. (According to Mr. Banks, 372 of 391 U.S.-Indian treaties have never been honored.) Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (CP-SANF-3A-78-JH)
Creator Name(s): Wright, John. (photographer)
Date Created: 1978, March 6, 1978, March 6, 1978
Name Subject(s): Religious News Service--Archives., Banks, Dennis, 1937-2017., Wah, Bill.
Topical Subject(s): Indigenous peoples--Political activity--United States--20th century., Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--United States--20th century., Civil rights demonstrations--United States--20th century.
Geographic subjects: United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., United States, 20th century., Sacramento (Calif.), North and Central America--United States--Sacramento--California--Sacramento
Physical Location: RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 41, image no. PC-50900; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item: Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local): RNS-RG1_PC-50900
(PID) Persistent Identifier: islandora:293413

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