Alaska, USA / Turtle Island
After being invited by Inuit visitors to Japan in 1977 to tour North America, twenty-four members of the the Ainu Society for Self Advancement set out in late 1978. Tokuhei Narita served as spokesperson of the delegation. This journey is understood to be the first time that Ainu representatives visited North America for the purpose of engaging with other Indigenous peoples.
The delegates’ first stop was in Alaska in August 1978.