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Spirit run a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land

"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...

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Main Author: Álvarez, Noé (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Catapult, [2020]
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Álvarez, Noé.
Long-distance running > North America > Anecdotes.
Long-distance runners > United States > Biography.
Indigenous peoplesa > America > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > America > Biography.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Warehouse white noise
  • The "Palm Springs of Washington"
  • Ganas in Carver Country
  • Getting out
  • Walla Walla walkabouts
  • Cold feet
  • The arrival
  • Tree noodles
  • "Indian time"
  • La Cruz de Campos
  • Glacier dip
  • Washington gray
  • Goldendale
  • An X-Man
  • Apache medicine
  • Cougar country
  • City-slicker natives
  • Tlaloc in L.A.
  • Southern fire
  • Main in the maze
  • Running the wrong way
  • The devil's coffin
  • El chapito
  • Deer runners
  • Chihuahua
  • Touch of treasure
  • The rebirth story
  • Nayarit
  • Mangoes
  • Santo coyote
  • Hardware store
  • Weaving words
  • The flying men of Teotihuacán
  • Descending eagle
  • Oaxaca
  • Zapatistas : rebel country
  • Acteal
  • Guatemala
  • Old orchard
  • Today.

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