 Bemidji area American Indian leaders and students marked today by drawing to draw attention to challenges facing Indigenous people worldwide. They marched about 70 people in all, including students from several area high schools. As they took part in the first ever Indigenous People's Movement march, they went from Paul Bunyan and Babe to Blue Ox statues all the way to the American Indian Resource Center. Movement has been an organization throughout the country to bring awareness to Indigenous people's issues such as missing and murdered Indigenous women, the water protector issue, the Indian Child Welfare Act with the people at the border. So it's very all-encompassing and inclusive of a lot of issues that are coming involving Indigenous peoples. A similar march also took place in Washington D.C. today.