Update: Due to construction on the "barrier- the WALL" organizers had to make adjustments and have the water merge at Imperial Beach by the pier on June 14. The driving access to the park will be gated. The water that was collected will still be taken/ran to the corner of Mexico and California. This was changed because this event is for everyone and easier for brothers and sisters with disabilities, according to a post on Bobby Wallace's Facebook page.
By Miriam Raftery
Photo, left: Barona tribal members with Passamaquoddy tribal members in Maine
Photo,right: via "Run with the Sun" page of indigenousnetwork.org; Bobby Wallace (right) with run participants
June 1, 2023 (San Diego’s East County) -- Local Native Americans are about to complete the longest indigenous prayer run in U.S. history. “Run with the Sun” is the brainchild of Lakeside resident Bobby Wallace, a member of the Barona Band of Mission Indians, in hopes of protecting waters across America.
“It’s been awesome making changes in people’s minds about water everywhere,” Wallace told ECM in an interview today. “We started running, traveling with the water over every footstep of this continent, over every major waterway, with a prayer for all water.”
The effort is supported by the Barona, Sycuan and Viejas tribes in San Diego’s East County, as well as participants from other tribes across the U.S.
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