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)

Wright, John. (photographer)

1978
March 6, 1978

still image

photographs

photograph : black-and-white ; 8 x 10 inches

Religious News Service--Archives.
Banks, Dennis, 1937-2017.
Wah, Bill.

Indigenous peoples--Political activity--United States--20th century.
Indigenous peoples--Civil rights--United States--20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations--United States--20th century.

United States
20th century.
Sacramento (Calif.)
North and Central America--United States--Sacramento--California--Sacramento

IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

RNS RG 1, RT 1054, Box 41, image no. PC-50900; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

RNS-RG1_PC-50900

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