Alaska to Colombia: 2024 Peace & Dignity Journey begins

May 21, 2024 | Video and Text By: Jeff Chen

In early May, Native Movement had the privilege of supporting the northern hemisphere's opening ceremony of the 2024 Peace & Dignity Journeys prayer run.

A group of runners set-off from Lower Tanana Dene lands in Fairbanks and began their 7-month journey to Colombia, where they'll join together with another group that is running the length of the southern hemisphere. The intercontinental intertribal run will connect Indigenous communities along the route to strengthen ties and uplift intergenerational healing.

"The journey comes from a prophecy from the relatives from the South," run coordinator Jose Malvido says, "about the Eagle and Condor coming together."

Neets'aii Gwich'in elder Sarah James ran in the 2004 journey and was also with the group at this year's opening ceremony and throughout the Alaska route. The group has now made it halfway through Canada, and they're kindly asking for donations to their gofundme. If you'd like to run or get involved, please reach out! They keep an updated Facebook page.

Links below!

Website: www.pdjrun.com

Donate: https://gofund.me/bbc8bd42

Daily updates: https://www.facebook.com/PDJ2016