Tens of thousands of indigenous people march towards La Paz during a ceremony commemorating Columbus day as the Day of Indigenous Resistance in downtown La Paz, Bolivia on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006
Indigenous people from South America participate in a ceremony at the San Francisco square in La Paz October 12, 2006. Thousands of indigenous and representative groups from Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and other countries from the Americas gathered in La Paz on Thursday to support Bolivia's President Evo Morales as the first indigenous democratically-elected president.