Makah Grandmothers March arrives in PDX Sunday 10/5
author: justicelies
Makah Grandmothers are walking from Neah Bay Washington to Arizona to bring awareness to issues that are impacting them and generations to come. Please come to Holiday Park (in front of Lloyd Center) to greet them as they arrive in Portland. As things stand now they are hoping to arrive about 4:00 p.m. There will be more info posted as it is available.
Below is an article written for the Port Angeles newspaper.........
PORT ANGELES — The grandmothers want their grandchildren to know when they see injustice, when someone tries to keep them quiet, they must speak out.
And if that doesn't work, walk out.
Which is what the three grandmothers, Makah tribal members from Neah Bay, did at 4 a.m. Wednesday.
Dotti Chamblin, Gail Adams and Rhonda Markishtum, whose ages total 181 years, began a 330-mile trek to Portland, Ore., with a walk into the early morning fog over the Makah Reservation.
They arrived in Port Angeles shortly before noon Wednesday and went to U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks' office at 322 E. Fifth St. to deliver a letter.
Dicks, the Democrat from Belfair who represents the 6th Congressional District, sits on the Appropriation subcommittee for the Department of the Interior, which oversees the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The grandmothers' letter — four pages, single-spaced and containing their phone numbers — calls for better health care for Native Americans and better care for the land and waters that sustain them.
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