Send a Runner
A Navajo Honors the Long Walk
Edison Eskeets, Jim Kristofic
- 192 pages
- English
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Send a Runner
A Navajo Honors the Long Walk
Edison Eskeets, Jim Kristofic
About This Book
The Navajo tribe, the DinĂ©, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the DinĂ© people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico. The summer of 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the Navajos' return to their homelands. One Navajo family and their community decided to honor that return. Edison Eskeets and his family organized a ceremonial run from Spider Rock in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, to Santa FĂ©, New Mexico, in order to deliver a message and to honor the survivors of the Long Walk. Both exhilarating and punishing, Send A Runner tells the story of a Navajo family using the power of running to honor their ancestors and the power of history to explain why the Long Walk happened. From these forces, they might also seek the vision of how the DinĂ©âtheir peopleâwill have a future.