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Delbert Anderson’s Ceremony of Remembrance

In November 2023, Diné jazz trumpeter Delbert Anderson sounded the first note of a composition, “The Long Walk,” whose performance will be completed in about four and a half years, mirroring the length of time in the 1860s that the Diné were forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland by the United States government before winning the right to return. That note initiated a solemn ceremony of remembrance, and people around the world have joined the performance.

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