Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land Choctaw shatters Indian stereotypes

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Lucas Smoke learns the art of carving from his grandfather

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Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land Choctaw shatters Indian stereotypesThe 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,