National Day of Mourning for Native Americans march attacked by police in Plymouth MA

On Thanksgiving day 1997, Indigenous mourners and their allies were brutalized by more than 150 Plymouth police, county sheriffs, and state police resulting in 25 arrests. In particular, anti-Black racism from the police occurred as a Kazi Ajagun Toure, a Black freed former political prisoner and anti-imperialist was attacked and had a loc pulled from his head. Two Black women were arrested and left in handcuffs hours after handcuffs were removed from other detainees. Cultural Survival reports that the "resulting court case and settlement led to the installation of two historical plaques in Plymouth with an Indigenous-written historical account, the charges being dropped against all 25 protesters, and acknowledgment of the right to march without a permit each National Day of Mourning."