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Álvarez, Noé.
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Álvarez, Noé.
Mexican Americans -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.
Long-distance running -- North America -- Anecdotes.
Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
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Álvarez, Noé.
Álvarez, Noé.
Mexican Americans -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.
Long-distance running -- North America -- Anecdotes.
Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
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Spirit
run
: a
6
,000-mile
marathon
through
North
America
's
stolen
land
/ Noé Álvarez.
by
Álvarez, Noé.
Thorndike Press, 2020.
Call #:
LP 920 A473s
Subjects
Álvarez, Noé.
Mexican Americans -- Biography.
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions.
Long-distance running --
North
America
-- Anecdotes.
Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.
Indians of
North
America
-- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9781432880965 (large print hc.)
Edition:
Large print ed.
Description:
275 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across
North
America
. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear--dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion--but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running
through
mountains, deserts, and cities, and
through
the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Álvarez forges a new relationship with the
land
, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and--against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit--the dream of a liberated future."
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Memoirs.
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