Indian Power: Salute to all who answered the call to unite with the original Poor People’s Campaign – A commemoration for IP (Indigenous Peoples’) Heroes Day #IPHeroesDay #TranscendingLegacy

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Mattie Grinnell (Mandan) speaks to the press outside the Supreme Court during the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C.
Photograph by Bill Wingell Source: National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution, “Grounds for Solidarity.” https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/grounds-solidarity

Poor People’s Embassy commemorates 10 November – IP Heroes Day – as called by the Indigenous Peoples’ Movement for Self-Determination & Liberation to celebrate by name all who have been active in global Indigenous struggle.

Below are the names of those known for joining the American Indian (Indigenous peoples of Abya Yala) contingent of the original Poor People’s Campaign. They joined hands with Black, Puerto Rican, Appalachian White, and Mexican family to fight for fishing, land, economic, and all human rights. One, Big Snake (Ponca), served as president of the city council of Resurrection City, PPC’s 1968 protest encampment in the belly of the beast, Washington, DC., and he was regarded as the true mayor of the City. Mattie Grinnell (Mandan), at 101 years of age in 1968, was our Grandmother as well as a freedom fighter. Tillie Walker (Mandan-Hidatsa) was a tireless organizer for the Campaign, Committee of 100, the Caravans, and Resurrection City.

  • Mattie Grinnell (Mandan)
  • Clyde Warrior (Ponca)
  • Della Warrior (Ponca)
  • Tillie Walker (Mandan-Hidatsa)
  • Big Snake (Ponca)
  • Elsie (Chickasaw)
  • Martha Grass (Ponca)
  • Mel Thom (Walker River Paiute)
  • Leona Hale (Mandan)
  • John Belindo (Kiowa/Navajo)
  • Alfred E. Elgin, Jr. (Pomo)
  • Hank Adams (Assiniboine-Sioux)
  • George Crow Flies High (Hidatsa) 
  • Rose Crow Flies High Hidatsa)
  • Al Bridges (Nisqually)
  • Maiselle Bridges (Nisqually)
  • Victor Charlo (Bitterroot Salish)
  • Wallace Mad Bear Anderson (Tuscarora)
  • Donald J. Richmond, Jr. (Tekawerente) (Mohawk)
  • Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux)
  • Frank Allen (Stillaguamish) 
  • Phyllis Howard (Hidatsa)
  • Myra Snow (Hidatsa)
  • Louella Young Bear (Mandan)
  • Naomi Foolish Bear (Hidatsa), 
  • Agnes Yellow Wolf (Hidatsa)
  • Patricia Baker (Blackfeet-Hidatsa)
  • Andrew Dreadfulwater (Cherokee)
  • George Groundhog (Cherokee)
  • Edith McCloud (Nisqually) 
  • Evelyn Dwimoh (Sisseton-Wahpeton)
  • Hazel Harold (Pima)
  • Mel Walker (Mandan-Hidatsa)
  • D’Arcy McNickle (Flathead) 
  • Joseph Garry (Coeur d’Alene)
  • Helen Peterson (Northern Cheyenne/Lakota) 
  • Wendell Chino (Mescalero Apache)
  • Robert K. Thomas (Cherokee)
  • Robert V. Dumont ( Assiniboine) 
  • Lucille Knight (Lakota)
  • Mrs. Ellis Blackhorse (Lakota) 
  • Charlie Cambridge (Diné)
  • Janet McCloud (Nisqually)
  • Sam English (Ojibwe)
  • Russell Walden (Chickasaw)
  • Robert V. Dumont (Assiniboine)

Saludos to American Indian organizations with PPC :

  • Survival of American Indians Association (SAIA)
  • National Indian Youth Council
  • Daughters of Indian Uprisings
  • Coalition of American Indian Citizens

Saludos to their comrades in internationalist struggle:

  • Cornelius “Cornbread” Givens
  • Reies López Tijerina
  • Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzáles
  • Dick Gregory 
  • Gilberto Gerena Valentín
  • Click Johnson
  • The Diggers / God’s Eye Bakery/Walt Reynolds

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