Dezi - Diné running, prayer runs and Native Women Running | Trailing Off

Dezi is Diné, from Copper Mine in northern Arizona, and she introduces herself in her traditional format before a word of English. We talk about growing up on the Navajo reservation without running water or electricity, doing twelve years of homework by kerosene lamp, running every morning to greet the sun, the prayer runs that carry the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement, and what it took to make a Native Women Running team at Antelope Canyon. Recorded during the Trailing Off era with Mailman Steve. Listen to the full show: Spotify: https://www.oryfrazier.com/go/spotify Apple Podcasts: https://www.oryfrazier.com/go/apple-p... Chapters 0:00 Welcome 0:54 Clans, Copper Mine and the Navajo Nation 2:07 Native brilliance, and writing for social change 4:18 Raising urban Native kids on the land 5:26 Growing up without running water or electricity 9:26 Running to greet the sun 12:00 Prayer runs, and the MMIW movement 14:37 The prayer run she ran into by accident 20:28 Joining track at 14 21:16 Coaches, and being seen 26:19 Coming back to running 27:39 Making a Native Women Running team 33:06 So what exactly is an ultra? 36:10 The Rut, and the cable on the ridgeline 45:46 Planning a rim to rim to rim 46:58 Dark skies and light pollution laws 58:48 Wind Cave, and whose land it is 1:07:32 A favourite trail story Dezi - Diné running, prayer runs and Native Women Running