'I think there's an opportunity right now for everyone to find what motivates them and commit to what they believe in.' — _nativeinla
, a Lululemon global run ambassador, and a citizen of Kul Wičasa Oyate, the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. In 2019, she ran the Boston Marathon in honor of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two Spirit people, and relatives with a red handprint painted over her mouth, bringing national attention to this epidemic.
I fell in love with running in college, at the same time I was reclaiming my Indigenous identity as a Lakota woman. This was after being ashamed — and not wanting to be the brown-skinned girl in a very white town — for all of high school. A Native college professor of mine was like,"Hey, if you're homesick, why don't you go to Penobscot Indian Nation? They're having a round dance.
I think there's an opportunity right now for everyone to find what motivates them and commit to what they believe in.What really inspired me to learn more about the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and start speaking about it, is what happened toin North Dakota. She was murdered and her baby was taken from her belly.
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