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The Longest Walk is open to people of all nations and cultures. You will be asked to fill out a registration form and abide by the code of conduct/guidelines/principles of unity.
The Longest Walk 2 Southern Route is being organized and led by American Indian Movement co-founder Dennis J. Banks, elders and original 1978 Walkers. Communities welcoming the Longest Walk 2-Southern Route are: Rumsey Wintun, Three Rivers, Santa Rosa Tachi, Mojave, Chumash, United Farm Workers, Dineh Nation, Houma Nation and the Choctaw to name a few. The Nipponzan Miyohoji Buddhists from Japan will be joining The Longest Walk 2 - Southern Route.
The purpose of the Southern route is to continue and carry the message from the Longest Walk of 1978: "The Longest Walk is an Indian spiritual walk, a historical walk; and it is a walk for educational awareness to the American and the world communities about the concerns of American Indian people." The Longest Walk 2 is walking to create awareness about the environment. We are walking to protect sacred sites in our country. We are walking to promote positive change in our world.
The Longest Walk 2 is a peaceful, spiritual effort to engage with the public about restoring harmony with the environment by leading an effort to clean up the lands surrounding our highways. We will be launching The Clean Up Mother Earth Campaign where our Longest Walk participants will work together to clean up our country's highways and roads by collecting debris found along the Longest Walk route. This monumental task will engage Walkers in a global effort at a grassroots level to promote harmony with our delicate environment. A rotating team of walkers will pick up trash along the way with trash pokers leaving a healthy trail in their path.
We take up this task to walk in a manner befitting our nations. We shall walk for the Seventh Generation, for peace, for justice, for healing of Mother Earth, for the healing of our people suffering from diabetes, heart conditions and other diseases.
We are Cleaning Up Mother Earth mile-by-mile, village-to-village, city-to-city, state-to-state and shore-to-shore from Alcatraz Island to Washington, D.C. We walk with the message: All Life is Sacred.
- If you registered as a walker or volunteer on the Longest Walk website, you registered for the Southern route. Currently there are over 100+ registered as walkers to walk the entire Southern route, which is 4,400 miles.
- If you are walking the Southern route, the weather conditions will be significantly better than the Northern route. You should be prepared in case it rains or snows.
- Dogs are welcome as long as you are completely responsible for them and they must be on leashes at all times. In addition you should not expect them to be able to ride in a vehicle, unless it is ok with the vehicle owner or it is your vehicle. It is your responsibility to arrange such rides.
- There will be a number of International walkers along the Southern route including Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhists. We ask that you show the utmost respect to people of all backgrounds and walks. Please be aware and do not walk in between the monks and nuns while they are drumming. Please do not bother them while they are in prayer.
- If you are vegan/vegetarian the south route will do it's best to accommodate you accommodate you.
- Donations made through the Longest Walk website are intended for the Southern route and are tax-deductible . If you would like to make a donation online please use the donation module found on the left sidebar. To donate by mail, please make checks payable to the "Nowa Cumig Institute" and mail the donation to: Nowa Cumig Institute--P.O. Box 1817--Sausalito, CA--94965.
- If you are interested in walking please be sure to read the following pages on our website:
- Register online here.
Here is a Link to the Northern Route Overview
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