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1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 19 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Ramon De Ocampo. |
| Summary |
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez 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, Álvarez 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 Dene, Secwepemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purepecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez 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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Álvarez, Noé.
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Long-distance running -- North America -- Anecdotes.
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Long-distance runners -- United States -- Biography.
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Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
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Indians of North America -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Ocampo, Ramon de, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781684578702 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1684578701 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12623870 |
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