Set Free Movement Freedom Run/Walk 2026

The Set Free Movement Freedom Run/Walk is part of a series connected to the American Indian Movement, the American Indian civil rights movement started in Minneapolis in July 1968. It is a run/walk, not a competition solely for fast runners, indicating a format intended for wide participation and public commemoration. The most significant background for the series comes from AIM. The movement originated in urban Native communities and addressed poverty, discrimination, police brutality, treaty rights, unemployment, the lack of American Indian topics in education, and the preservation of Indigenous cultures. Its founders were American Indian men influenced by experiences in prison, boarding schools, military service, and the displacement resulting from federal relocation policy, which relocated many Native people from reservations to cities.