| Chief Billy "Red Wing" Tayac of the is the present hereditary chief of the Piscataway Indian Nation of Maryland and an American Indian Movement (AIM) leader and activist. He was a participant in many Native American struggles including Wounded Knee, Gankineh, Big Mountain, OK’a, Gustafson Lake, the Salvadorian Indian Movement, and the Ecuadorian Indian Movement. He has been Leonard Peltier’s advisor and spokesman for 24 years and was also the principal negotiator of Native American religion in Maryland and many federal penitentiaries and the Department of Interior. | 
During an Oct. 21, 2012 ceremony on the grounds of St. Ignatius Parish in Chapel Point, Billy Redwing Tayac – the chief of the Piscataway Indian nation –prays before a statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, who was canonized as a saint earlier that day in Rome.
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