Join this Stretch Session if you are interested in learning more about Native Land! Facilitated by Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Whetstone – Kul Wičasa Lakota. In this workshop, we will be screening and discussing the film Know To Run - Yatika.
About your facilitator:
Jordan is a citizen of Kul Wicasa Oyate (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) as well as a passionate and devoted advocate for Indian Country and all people, filmmaker, Field Team Athlete Advocate with Janji, EDI/JEDI consultant, public speaker, community organizer, and founder of Rising Hearts.
Nationally known for her advocacy and grassroots organization for anti-pipelines/climate justice efforts, change the name/not your mascot, the epidemic and crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR), Justice – Equity – Diversity – Inclusion consultations, filmmaking, and native youth initiatives. Her experience in grants and project management, policy, blogging, public speaking, and organizing has been leveraged by many community partners and supporters in the areas of environmental sustainability and justice, access to quality healthcare, MMIR, the Violence Against Women Act, and a variety of other worthy causes.
Jordan is the founder and community organizer of Rising Hearts, an Indigenous-led grassroots group devoted to elevating Indigenous voices, promoting, and supporting intersectional collaborative efforts across all forms of movements in cultivating community with the goals of racial, social, climate and economic justice. Our primary focuses are to inform, elevate, mobilize, and organize through movement, strategic and targeted advocacy and programming, establishing collaborative kinships to help create a better, safer future, and environment for all relatives who inhabit this planet - past, present, and future.
About the film:
When representation is everything, it can make a difference and have a profound impact when community is included in spaces that lack inclusion and diversity. This short film, Know to Run, featuring Yatika Starr Fields, an Indigenous runner, artist and advocate, is the recipient of GU Energy Labs + Rising Hearts - 2022 Western States Endurance Run (WSER) Race Entry. The exclusive and mainly white race is a 100 mile long ultra marathon. Yatika is the vessel and Indigenous representative that helps bring a better understanding of the land and the peoples who first cared for it and still do. This film celebrates all the firsts (first land acknowledgement, first Indigenous made poster, first Indigenous runners panel) and continues this kinship into 2024. The Know to Run discussion will hit on themes of “what are land acknowledgements” and what it means to go beyond, their importance, the inclusion of local Indigenous communities being part of the conversations, making the running and outdoor community a more accessible and equitable place, and what the consultation process looks like. The WSER is a shining example of how to create more pathways to cultivate community in meaningful and sustainable ways.
Know To Run represents the opportunities for gaining knowledge, carrying that knowledge and implementing that knowledge and best, respectful practices into our own lives to be a good relative to ourselves, to each other, and to the lands.
FILM RUN TIME: 00:09:58
EPISODE 2 STATUS: Currently in production and seeking funding sponsors.