One man’s role in a 6,000-mile run through North America

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1. indigenous 1. He joined in British Columbia and ran as far

2. quadrennial as Guatemala.
3. ancestral 2. He had planned to run to the Panama Canal, but
4. plant an injury forced him to end his run earlier than he
5. elder wanted to.
6. staff 3. Nogales, Arizona
7. myriad 4. Each runner decides how far they want to run each
8. terrain day. The others travel in a motor vehicle and wait
9. assault until it’s their turn to run.
10. shady 5. Álvarez met a mountain lion while he was running;
11. determined some people tried to force them into a vehicle;
12. process other people threw rocks at them from a car;
female runners were at risk of assault.
6. to honour the land; to enable indigenous
participants to reconnect with their ancestral lands;
to share cultural stories and traditions; to visit other
indigenous groups on the route

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