Close to 400,000 people turned out in New York City on Sunday, September 21, 2014, for the People’s Climate March, the largest environmental protest in history. Far exceeding expectations, the streets of Manhattan were filled with Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists, politicians, musicians, students, farmers, celebrities, nurses and labor activists united in their demand for urgent action on climate change.
Cultural Survival staff also attended as did Cultural Survival Quarterly Contributing Arts Editor Phoebe Farris (Powhatan-Renape). Farris is a professor emerita of Purdue University and the vice president for membership of the Washington D.C. branch of American Association of University Women. All Photos by Phoebe Farris.
Phoebe Farris (second from right)
Ulali, Native women's singing group blessing the indigenous breakfast in Central Park prior to the march.
Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Seneca Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.
Selfie with Winona LaDuke
On the left, Josephine, a Shinnecock tribal leader with her sister, Marguerite Smith, a lawyer for Indian rights.
Mark Ruffalo and Leonardo diCaprio with the Indigenous contingent as guests of Oren Lyons.
Selfie with Sting with the Indigenous contingent as guests of Oren Lyons.
Sting talking with Tom Goldtooth of Indigenous Environmental Newtork and other Indigenous marchers
