During the summer of 2009, a group of 18 Native and Xicana youth from the United States/Turtle Island travaled to the Illegally-Occupied Territories to connect with Palestinian youth and to collectively imagine a future more just for all indigenous peoples.
Marei Spaola was member to the delegation and is part of the 7th Generation Indigenous Visionaries, a grassroots collective at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas, where he currently studies.