A Bkejwanong First Nation (left) and a Waganakising Odawa women at the Detroit River. | Photo: Rosa Maria Zamarron
The Waawiiyaatanong Resurgence marches in Detroit on July 4. | Photo: Rosa Maria Zamarron
July 4 banner demanding Indigenous rights in the United States. | Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe
July 4 demonstration Native Treaty Rights placard and Fighting Words broadsheet distributed in downtown Detroit. | Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe
July 4 display on Black Lives Matter at Campus Martius in downtown Detroit. | Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe
July 4 Veterans for Peace display on Michigan war dead from Afghanistan and Iraq at Grand Circus Park. | Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe
July 4 where hundreds gathered at Grand Circus Park and Campus Martius in downtown Detroit. | Photo: Abayomi Azikiwe
At the request of the Indigenous community, the Michigan Militia of Love was asked to protect and serve against any outside threat on July 4. | Photo: The Peoples Action / Facebook
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff
These photographs were taken on Saturday, July 4, 2020, in downtown Detroit.
There were two rallies in support of Indigenous and Black lives.
One action began at Grand Circus Park featuring community speakers addressing African American history and other social issues. This crowd of about 300 people later marched to Campus Martius where another gathering was held in honor of the Indigenous people who were displaced from the area now known as Detroit.
Members of the Moratorium NOW! Coalition were present at the two events with placards in solidarity for Black Lives Matter and honoring Native Treaty rights.
Copies of the July 2020 Fighting Words broadsheet were circulated among the crowd of people.
As part of a “Waawiiyaatanong Resurgence” ceremony on July 1, Indigenous women of Chippewa, Anishinaabe, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, and Cherokee ancestry decolonized the former site of a Columbus statute which was removed by the city of Detroit two weeks earlier. | Photo: Rosa María Zamarrón
The Waawiiyaatanong Resurgence
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