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04207aam a22005298i 4500 001 5635843C1DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201103011456 008 200324s2020 miu d 000 0deng 010 $a 2020010033 020 $a 1432880969 020 $a 9781432880965 (large print : hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-wa $a n-usp-- $a n-mx--- $a n-us-wa 050 10 $a E98.E85 $b A43 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a AÌlvarez, NoeÌ, $e author. 245 10 $a Spirit run : $b a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land / $c NoeÌ AÌlvarez. 246 30 $a 6,000-mile marathon through North America's stolen land 250 $a Large print edition. 263 $a 2009 264 1 $a Detroit : $b Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, Gale Cengage Learning, $c [2020] 300 $a pages (large print) ; cm. 490 0 $a Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir 505 0 $a 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 TeotihuacaÌn -- Descending eagle -- Oaxaca -- Zapatistas : rebel country -- Acteal -- Guatemala -- Old orchard -- Today. 520 $a "Growing up in Yakima, Washington, NoeÌ AÌlvarez 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, AÌlvarez 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 DeneÌ, SecweÌpemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, PureÌpecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, AÌlvarez 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, AÌlvarez 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a AÌlvarez, NoeÌ. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x Ethnic identity. 650 0 $a Indians of Mexico $x Ethnic identity. 650 0 $a Long-distance runners $z North America $v Biography. 650 0 $a Long distance running $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Long distance running $z Mexico. 650 0 $a Mexican Americans $x Ethnic identity. 650 0 $a Mexican American athletes $v Biography. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x Sports. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a Yakima County (Wash.) $v Biography. 941 $a 6 945 $a lpt 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119015819.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010021208.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220517010403.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20210204030915.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20201103013301.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201103012942.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5635843C1DA411EBAAA0CA112BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search