Run Like A Native & Remaining Native - Lenapehoking 5K
Another collaboration with the award-winning documentary film, Remaining Native. This time in Lenapehoking (New York City)!
The documentary was screening for a full week at the Firehouse: DCTV's Cinema for Documentary Film as part of their Oscar nomination criteria. We were honored to be included in their event filled week, by doing a community 5K fun run/walk in lower Manhattan. This partnership again brought local runners and Indigenous communities together to celebrate our Messenger role and raise critical awareness about the legacy of Indian Boarding Schools, while also acknowledging the Lenape Nations and their water ways, which are now covered by the concrete jungle.
Two amazing Messengers joined us that morning: Actress and title holding professional boxer Kali Reis (True Detective, Catch the Fair One), and documentary subject Ku Stevens. They led the morning with encouraging words, and we traveled to the bottom on Manhattan, seeing the same water ways that the Lenape and other Nations traveled for trade and in life.
Shout out to Holes in the Wall Collective for their work in bringing awareness to Collect Pond and the water ways of Manhattan. To Kali Reis for joining us for some morning miles. To Ku Stevens for not only sharing his story but being in person to greet his fellow Messengers. And to the whole Remaining Native team. They brought some amazing people together that week, to collaborate, to bring awareness, and to get this story to the next level. We wish them all the best in their Oscar consideration campaign!
ABOUT THE FILM:
Remaining Native is a coming-of-age feature documentary told through the perspective of Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner from the Yerington Paiute Reservation in Northwest Nevada. The film follows Ku as he navigates his way to college athletics while the memory of his great-grandfather’s 50-mile escape from Indian Boarding School begins to connect past, present, and future
For more information, visit https://www.remainingnativedocumentary.com/