However, as announced by Joan Phillip, all members decline to discuss their trip with news outlets and others. Instead, they declare that they will organize an audio-visual presentation about their travels.
The trip to China had a big emotional impact on the Indigenous visitors. Seeing the wealth and self-esteem of a decolonized, socialist country like China gave them new confidence and hope for the future.
In her book Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel, Stó꞉lō writer Lee Maracle describes the feeling of freedom she felt in Beijing when, for the first time in her life, she was able to walk down the street without facing any racism. She was impressed by how people were treated with respect in China and by how happy the children seemed. She wrote that in China there were:
No long sad faces of children of colour on the backs of buses, despairing about going to school because she would be humiliated by white kids. The children of China looked happy. In their faces, in the cleanliness of their country and in the sprawling beauty of Beijing, I saw my dreams of the future.
Image source: p. 75 of Winnipeg Free Press, Jun. 25, 1975