Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land powwow Moving from the earliest years

Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond

In this poignant collection of oral histories

Many Dakota people consider the area to be their sacred place of origin as well as a site of genocide

the life of Crazy Horse and his motivations

they received rain

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land powwow Moving from the earliest yearsThe son of working class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit packing plants to run in a Native American marathon from Canada to Guatemala in this "stunning memoir that moves to the rhythm of feet, labor, and the many landscapes of the Americas" (Catriona Menzies Pike, author of The Long Run). Growing up in Yakima, Washington, No lvarez worked at an apple packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit,