Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land powwow Concerned that human lives and

Concerned that human lives and the natural world are too often defined by people who are separated from the land and its inhabitants

and tribal affiliations to present the extraordinary range and power of new Native poetry

and seashores to watch miracles still unfolding

In this poignant collection of oral histories

and wordplay—provide

Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land powwow Concerned that human lives andThe 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,