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CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!
EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO SUPPORT AND PARTICIPATE!
Upload your times & photos 10/10 through 10/18
Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on October 12th
HONORING THE PAST: Recognizing Indigenous existence & honoring Ancestral lives and their sacrifices.
CELEBRATING THE PRESENT: Indigenous Peoples are still here – with their resilient voices and heart.
BUILDING A FUTURE: Creating a future for the next generations to come.
"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. For Indigenous Peoples Day, we run together as relatives, as a community, to recognize and celebrate Indigenous people! 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. As we look ahead – we have the opportunity to dismantle current systems of oppression and racism and rebuild a better and visible future! 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 bring and call people in – to support the survival of Indigenous People, their strength, and their resilience – because we are still here!” – Jordan Marie Daniel
Instagram @nativein_la & @rising_hearts
BENEFITS
5K Run/Walk
Funds raised will go towards Sovereign Bodies Institute - SBI is a home for generating new knowledge and understandings of how Indigenous nations and communities are impacted by gender and sexual violence, and how they may continue to work towards healing and freedom from such violence. In the spirit of building such freedom, SBI is strongly committed to upholding the sovereignty of all bodies Indigenous peoples hold sacred--our physical bodies, nations, land, and water--and does not accept grants from colonial governments or extractive industries. Similarly, SBI’s work is not limited by colonial borders, concepts of gender, politics of identity or recognition, or ways of knowing. SBI honors the epistemologies and lifeways of indigenous peoples, and is bound by accountability to the land, our ancestors, and each other.
10K Run/Walk
Funds raised will go towards Wings of America - Wings of America is inspired by the cultural, spiritual, and competitive legacy of Native runners. Wings hopes to continue empowering Native youth and families.
Half Marathon
Funds raised will go to Rising Hearts to support Mitakuye Oyasin (Covid Relief Program), Running with Purpose film, and community organizing events such as upcoming Native American Heritage Month.
EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION
There are 574 federally recognized Sovereign Nations (Tribes, Nations, Bands, Pueblos, communities and Villages) and roughly 66 State recognized Nations that all have their own form of governance, but please remember, our existence, is in our blood and doesn’t conform to the colonial constructs that gives us our identity. Due to genocide, so many of our relatives were taken – once thriving, now we are among the minority and often, invisible. But that is changing as so many Indigenous folx are emerging with their voice, presence and heart to create a better future for our next generations.”
“As we are in the fight for justice, visibility and respect – to be seen, heard, and supported across all our movements, the call for renaming and replacing the very things that uphold and celebrate colonialism, genocide, white supremacy and racism – are being removed, one by one.
Indigenous Peoples Day is October 12, 2020 – a day that is replacing the holiday known as Columbus Day across many cities and states but has yet to change federally. This celebration of Columbus – who accidentally discovered Turtle Island (North America) and the islands in the Caribbean – back with the 300th year anniversary of this 1492 “discovery” in 1792. For generations, Native people have opposed this holiday and recognition that celebrates the genocide of our ancestors and the systemic oppression and racism that it created that Native, Black, Brown, Immigrant, Asian, Two Spirit, LGBTQ+ and Non-Binary people feel today.
Indigenous Peoples Day recognizes our existence, history, culture and traditions that pre-date contact. In 2015, over 6,000 Native people and allies came together on Randall’s Island in New York to honor and recognize the survival of Indigenous Peoples in the Western Hemisphere. One by one, Indigenous Peoples Day is replacing Columbus Day. Indigenous voices are rising. They are being seen, heard, and centered. Let’s continue this support and amplification – and let’s have Indigenous Peoples control the narrative of our culture and history that is not accurately depicted in school textbooks.”
FOLLOW US
Instagram @nativein_la & @rising_hearts
TRACKING YOUR DISTANCE
12.5 laps on a track = 5K
25 laps on a track = 10K
4 laps on a track = 1 Mile
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 - click on this event.
3. Search for your name - click UPDATE.
4. Enter your time.
5. OPTIONAL upload up to 5 photos!
#efVirtual
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 Monday prior to the start day. Allow 3-5 business days to receive.
You don't need the bib to run/walk, it's a keepsake!
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & DONATIONS
NDN Collective - Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms.
IllumiNatives - Created and led by Native peoples, IllumiNative is a new nonprofit initiative designed to increase the visibility of – and challenge the negative narrative about – Native Nations and peoples in American society.
Urban Native Era - Based in Los Angeles, our daily operations prioritize a better life for Indigenous People around the world. We seek out spaces where Indigenous People are not traditionally seen, we value the Earth and use the most sustainable practices that we can afford, we create a collective community where people can come together as one while creating fashionable clothing for everyone to wear.
International Indigenous Youth Council - Los Angeles - The International Indigenous Youth Council (IIYC) was started and led by womxn and two-spirit peoples during the Standing Rock Indigenous Uprising of 2016 while peacefully protecting the Cannonball and Missouri Rivers against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. We are rooted in the protection of the elements and have been brought together and continue to be guided by the prayer for the water. We aspire to inspire young individuals to build bridges of solidarity and become leaders of their communities.
IIYC-LA helps to provide opportunities such as training, non-violent direct action training, education, spiritual teachings, healing, and more to the Council members and youth.
Urban Indigenous Collective - UIC devotes its advocacy and support of quality accessible and affordable health and wellness services grounded in cultural humility for federal and state recognized Tribal members along with self-identified Urban Natives living in the Tri-state area.
National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center - NIWRC is a Native-led nonprofit organization dedicated to ending violence against Native women and children. The NIWRC provides national leadership in ending gender-based violence in tribal 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.
Wabanaki Public Health - Wabanaki Public Health is dedicated to improving the health and well being of Tribal community members through connection, prevention and collaboration. We have a special focus on Obesity | Physical Activity; Substance Misuse Prevention; Tobacco Prevention; and Youth Engagement | Youth Empowerment.
Seeding Sovereignty - an Indigenous womxn-led collective, works on behalf of our global community to shift social and environmental paradigms by dismantling colonial institutions and replacing them with Indigenous practices created in synchronicity with the land. Rise with us. Grow with us.
Native Women’s Society of the Great Plains - a coalition of domestic violence and/or sexual assault programs committed to the reclamation of the sacred status of women. The Society offers a vision that ends domestic and sexual violence against Native women, in all aspects – a vision of change. The Society works to support and strengthen sisterhood and local advocacy and program development efforts through culturally specific education, technical assistance training and resource implementation.
Running Strong for American Indian Youth. Running Strong’s mission is to help Native American people meet their immediate survival needs – food, water, and shelter – while implementing and supporting programs designed to create opportunities for self-sufficiency and self-esteem.
Running Strong’s work began primarily on the Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River Indian Reservations in South Dakota. We implemented programs to provide immediate and lasting aid with food and nutrition, water access, youth, education, and seasonal demands. Over the years, our service population and programming expanded dramatically. Today we are proud to serve Native American people both on and off reservations throughout the United States.
Return to the Heart Foundation - Indigenous led Grant-making empowering visionary Indigenous women-led initiatives. Help support their Native Covid Action Fund.
SLC Air Protectors - Native led organization that addresses air pollution while supporting Indigenous led stewardship and providing masks, supplies and things needed to Native communities during COVID19. Click below for website. PayPal: [email protected]
Indigenous Women Hike - Healing through our inherent connection to the land.
See States, Cities & Counties who have either recognized, observed or adopted Indigenous Peoples Day!
