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EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATE!

ALL Virtual & In-Person Participants can upload times & photos May 2 - May 6


One In-Person 5K Run/Walk option to be held May 3, 2025


+ When you register and join team Rising Hearts, up to 10 of you could win a free Rising Hearts shirt!

+ When you register with an extra donation, up to 15 of you could win a free pair of running shoes!

+ Running For Justice shirts are still available via Rising Hearts - get your red and wear throughout the year! http://www.risinghearts.org/shop-heartwork

Rising Hearts is honored and grateful to bring the community together to honor, uplift, and send prayers for missing and murdered Indigenous relatives, their families, and for the advocates within these spaces - their dedication and their heart work to support the families, communities, the advocacy and finding solutions to end this epidemic.

In 2021, we were able to raise $75,000+! This is all thanks to the many participants that supported this event and campaign for awareness, and our Indigenous communities. We were able to donate over $30k to the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, $16k to Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains, as well as nearly a dozen $1500 - $600 donations to multiple MMIR families, advocates, survivors and organizations, doing the heart work to fight for justice and end this violence. In 2022, we were able to donate just over $21k to NIWRC, Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, Sovereign Bodies Institute and more.  Let’s do that again this year and reach our big fundraising goal to give back! And in 2023, we raised $18,000 that we were able to give back to the heart work to.

We have many voices doing this heart work to advocate and fight for a better future for our next generations.  We continue to educate, advocate, create content, uplift, and build community to work towards that future together. This epidemic of violence has impacted our communities, across colonial borders, and is impacting so many families, whose stolen relatives have been erased, who are invisible (outside of Indigenous communities), families and relatives who experience racism on so many levels, and continue to not get the platform and space to be seen, heard, and fought for.  We can change that. Be in community with us! Join us for this run/walk/event and be sure to join us in all the virtual events that are being organized for the week of action that you can participate in and learn from.

We have a big goal – to give back in a big way!

Join us in this virtual run and events to help us raise $20,000 to give back to the communities in this work so that we can end the violence and systemic barriers that are happening and to run for justice and healing.

Run in solidarity! Wear red and uplift this movement and the heart work.
- Join a team or create a team
- Purchase stickers
- Sponsor a relative/donate an entry
- Options to just donate

Let's continue to build community. Let's show up in whatever way we can to amplify and be part of a mobilized movement and call for change. Let's support those in this work and the families. Let's find solutions to ending this epidemic.

“The current reports of abduction and murder of Native women and girls are alarming and represent one of the most horrific aspects of the spectrum of violence committed against Native women. The issues surrounding missing and murdered Native women must be brought into the public's awareness to increase accountability of the justice systems. Now is the time for action!” -Lucy Simpson, Diné, NIWRC Executive Director


"Running is medicine. Running is tradition. Running is healing. Running is prayer. Running is community. Indigenous people are known for running – for the messages they carry – for the prayers they carry – for the tradition it brings. Running can help raise awareness of the things most important to us and to help build community through running. To acknowledge the past and what Native people have had to experience to be here today. We celebrate the present existence of Indigenous people and all the good medicine we bring to our relatives and our communities. As we look ahead – we have the opportunity to dismantle current systems of oppression and racism and rebuild a better and visible future for our peoples and lands! Our relatives across Turtle Island (North America) are sharing so much of their heart work to support their communities and build a future for our next generations. This virtual race is to call people in and support these amazing initiatives and efforts." – Jordan Marie Daniel

@rising_hearts   @elitefeats

Upload your times & photos 5/2 - 5/6


Running For Justice shirts & merch available HERE!

REGISTER

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATE!
Select the Trifecta and Save $35 Off Full Registration & Support All 3 Organizations!

Virtual Runners AND, new this year, in-person runners will have an opportunity to log your time of completion and post up to 5 photos online!

+ When you register and join team Rising Hearts, up to 10 of you could win a free Rising Hearts shirt!

+ When you register with an extra donation, up to 15 of you could win a free pair of running shoes!


  • Once this item is 'sold out' there will be an opportunity to purchase one below!

UNCHECK to select a run/virtual option.

SPONSOR A RUNNER DONATION

You are NOT registering a participant or family member - this is a donation to support a runner in need. The event team will issue a coupon code/s to a runner/s in need - Thank you!

Are you a runner in need? Please email: [email protected]

You are being a good relative by donating to someone in need!
(This is not a sponsorship to your own personal relative)

I do not want to register.
You are being a good relative by donating to someone in need!
(This is not a sponsorship to your own personal relative)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

Additional donations are evenly distributed to these organizations: National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC), Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives Coalition (MMDRC), Coalition to Stop Violence against Native Women, and Rising Hearts - You Are Loved Community Grant for MMIR Families, Survivors and Advocacy Orgs / Advocates.

Suggested Amounts

PARTICIPANT INFO

Items will not be shipped internationally.
You can still participate and post your times/photos!

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Acknowledge the Indigenous Lands you will run on by having it placed on your run bib. Unfortunately if you live abroad bibs are not shipped outside the United States/Turtle Island.

RESOURCES TO USE TO FIND THE INDIGENOUS LANDS YOU ARE ON:

A. Download the NativeLand App - this is a great resource.

B. Visit https://native-land.ca/ 

OPTIONAL JOIN/CREATE A TEAM

Would you like to join or create a team?

For Additional Purchase

  • Every Child Matters

    Every Child Matters

    Bundle of 5 Stickers
    3" Matte

    $7.00 ea.
  • Rising Hearts

    Rising Hearts

    Bundle of 5 Stickers
    3" Matte

    $7.00 ea.
  • Rising Hearts (Small)

    Rising Hearts (Small)

    Bundle of 5 Stickers
    1.5" Matte

    $7.00 ea.
  • Running with Purpose

    Running with Purpose

    Bundle of 5 Stickers
    3" Matte

    $7.00 ea.
  • Running on Native Lands (Brown)

    Running on Native Lands (Brown)

    Bundle of 5 Stickers
    3" Matte

    $7.00 ea.
  • Earth Day

    Earth Day

    Bundle of 5 Stickers

    $7.00 ea.
  • Be A Good Relative

    Be A Good Relative

    Bundle of 5 Stickers

    $7.00 ea.
  • Running for Justice

    Running for Justice

    Bundle of 5 Stickers
    3" Matte

    $7.00 ea.
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READ & INITIAL

ALL FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

RACE FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE

Nor are they transferable from year to year. Once you are signed up, race fees are used for race expenses and cannot be returned.

In consideration of accepting this entry, I understand and agree to be legally bound hereby for myself, my heirs, executors, administrators, successors and waive, release and hold harmless Running for Justice Virtual 5K, 10K & Half Marathon and In-Person 5K, Rising Hearts, elitefeats inc., and any volunteers and all race sponsors and their agents, employees and representatives for any and all injuries, claims, liabilities and causes of action related to my participation in this event. I attest that I am physically fit and have sufficiently trained for the completion of this event and that my condition has been verified by a licensed medical doctor. I further grant permission to any of the foregoing organizations to take and use photographs, video, and recordings or any other record of this event for any purpose whatsoever.

If signed by a parent, the parent agrees to release and hold the above-named organizations and persons harmless of any claims which may be asserted by or on behalf of the entrant as well.
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RUNNING FOR JUSTICE VIRTUAL AND IN PERSON EVENT

ALL Virtual & In-Person Participants can upload times & photos May 2 - May 6


One In-Person 5K Run/Walk option to be held May 3, 2025

AMENITIES
Group Prayer, community run. Safe, scenic and plenty of parking space.

BENEFICIARIES

You Are Loved Community Grant for MMIR Families, Survivors and Advocacy Orgs / Advocates: This community grant program is a direct services pathway for families, advocates and organizations to submit your request for on a rolling basis. We hope to raise the $100,000 + to get this program started, with a long term goal of sustaining this resource for community and outside agencies to continue to donate to or fundraise for.

Rising Hearts will be partnering in kinship with the Urban Indigenous Collective (UIC) and support their MMIP Taskforce. UIC is located on Lenapehoking lands and it’s important for Rising Hearts to collaborate in meaningful ways with groups local and with a close connection to MMIP Advocates and Families in the surrounding areas.

Donate: www.risinghearts.org/youareloved

Coalition to Stop Violence against Native Women: The mission of the CSVANW (Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women) is to eradicate violence against Native women and children by championing social change within our communities. We are dedicated to taking responsibility for the future wellbeing of Native women and children. Through the pillars of support, education, and advocacy, we leverage our collective strengths, power, and unity towards the creation of violence-free communities. Our vision encapsulates the essence of our efforts: fostering Healthy Families, Healthy Communities. This vision guides our commitment to healing and transforming our communities into safe, nurturing spaces for the growth and prosperity of all its members. 

Donation Link: https://csvanw.org/donate-now/

Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives Coalition (MMDRC): Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives Coalition (MMDRC) works to provide support to victims of the Missing & Murdered Indigenous relatives crisis, allocating much-needed aid to Diné families in finding their loved ones & achieving justice for the loved ones they have lost through community support & resource sharing

Donation Link: https://navajommdr.org/donate

National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC): Providing national leadership to end violence against American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian women and communities by lifting up the collective voices of grassroots advocates and offering culturally grounded resources, technical assistance and training, and policy development to strengthen Tribal sovereignty.

Donation Link: https://www.niwrc.org/donate

EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT

May 5th – What is it?
May 5th as a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls.

TRIGGER WARNING:
A congressional resolution to designate May 5th as a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls has been introduced. The resolution was drafted in memory of Hanna Harris (Northern Cheyenne) who was murdered July, 2013. The resolution was first introduced in April 2016 on the same day that RoyLynn Rides Horse (Crow) passed away after having been beaten, burned, and left in a field to die. Nearly 200 tribal, national, and state organizations supported this resolution. To learn more about the work that went into this – visit www.niwrc.org. 

On May 5, 2018, the United States Senate passed a co-sponsored resolution to declare May 5th, a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Womxn. This includes our 2 Spirits, girls, boys, men, elders, LGBTQ, non-binary relatives & relatives with disabilities – all relatives. This epidemic is across Indian Country on Turtle Island and expands beyond colonial borders.

SOME FACTS for CONTEXT:
In 2016, 5,712 Indigenous women and girls were reported missing – only 116 were logged into the Department of Justice database. That is UNACCEPTABLE!

  • 3rd leading cause of death – murder
  • UIHI identified 506 cases of MMIWG across 71 selected urban cities, 75% of the cases had no Tribal affiliation listed.
  • 66 of the 506 cases were tied to domestic and sexual violence
  • 4 in 5 will experience sexual/domestic violence/violence in their lifetime

CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS:
- Lack of accurate representation within the data
- Institutionalized racism / racism in general /systems of oppression / stereotypes / lack of action from law enforcement, governmental agencies (state and federal_
- Lack of proper training with Law Enforcement and Government
- Not enough representation from families and advocates on Taskforce's, Operation Lady Justice and involvement in policy.

REPORTS TO LEARN FROM:

FOLLOW AND SUPPORT

@niwrc / @sovereignbodies / @threesisterscollective / @native_women_running / @mmiwhoismissing / @restoringancestralwinds / @urbanindianhealthinstitute / @urbanindigenouscollective / @sunny_redbear / @seedingsovereignty

TRACKING YOUR DISTANCE

  • 4 laps on a track = 1 Mile
  • 12.5 laps on a track = 5K
  • 25 laps on a track = 10K
  • Treadmill
  • MapMyRun.com
  • Find a Certified USATF Course
  • Some run/walk events display course maps at elitefeats.com
  • Many parks have measured 'fitness' trails open to the public
  • Download free app Strava & hit 'Record'

QUESTIONS

Email [email protected]

VIRTUAL HOW TO

1. Run/walk whenever & wherever you'd like!
2. Starting on the event date go to elitefeats.com/Results
3. Search for your name - click UPDATE.
4. Enter your time.
5. OPTIONAL upload up to 5 photos!

WHEN TO POST

EARLY REGISTRANTS (before start day) can start posting times ON start day!
LATE REGISTRANTS (after start day) allow up to 24 hours to post times.
BIB MAILING begins 1/24. Allow 3-5 business days to receive.
You don't need the bib to run/walk, it's a keepsake!

ROSTER COUNT FOR TEAM CHALLENGE


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