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-When I go out
jogging by myself,

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it feels like I can go somewhere
that's just, like, a break,

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like a little vacation
kind of...

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just a break from
any of the stress or feelings

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that I might have been
feeling that day.

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Without running, I wouldn't be
where I am right now.

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I work,
and I run for Native people.

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[ Speaking Native language ]

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Hello, my name is Rosalie Fish,

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and I'm from
the Muckleshoot tribe.

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I grew up around Muckleshoot,

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and I went to Muckleshoot
Tribal School.

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[ Flute playing ]

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I've been doing coastal jams
and canoe paddling

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as long as I can remember.

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We did powwows, too.

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I did fancy dance powwow
for a long time.

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We have a division called "Tiny
Tots," and I did that.

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[ Speaking Native language ]

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It was something that I didn't
realize how much it meant to me

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until I got
a little bit older.

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It was just something
that was part of my life,

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that was part of my schedule,
and suddenly knew what it meant

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as I got older.

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it's a connection
to my ancestors

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and to my traditions,

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and it can be really healing
for me to know

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that people have fought for me
to be able to do these things.

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I started running
in middle school.

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I didn't really like it
as much then

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just because I didn't know
what it could do for me.

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I didn't really think
I was that good at it.

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And then when I went
to tribal school,

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running meant something else.

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I would show up to meets,
and people thought

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that I wouldn't do well.

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And there were these
non-Native schools,

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and they would look down on us.

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Muckleshoot Tribal School --
we had a basketball game.

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And there was a confrontation
on the court.

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And then, when
that team had left,

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they wrote "dirty Indian
savages" all over our walls.

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They said, like,
all kinds of graffiti

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that was really demeaning
and racist.

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And that's the kind of tone
that I can get sometimes

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running from a Native school
with a Native uniform.

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And so for me to be able

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to put in the work at practice
and then show up

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and exceed these people's
expectations of me

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when I could go
and prove them wrong and say,

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"You're wrong about Natives,
and you're wrong about me,"

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that was something that nobody
could take away from me.

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That's why I kept running.

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Growing up, you kind of slowly
begin to normalize

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Native women in your community
going missing or being murdered

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or just being gone.

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Murder is the third leading
cause of death for Native women.

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And what really makes
Native women so vulnerable

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to this issue
is that intersectionality

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between being a woman
and being a Native American.

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MMIW is an acronym for "Missing
and Murdered Indigenous Women."

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Over 80% of indigenous women

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will face some type of violence
within their lifetimes.

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A lot of people still don't know
what MMIW is,

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and I think that's due
to the lack of visibility

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that indigenous people have.

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And that's something
that has been really hard,

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and specifically a key factor
in the MMIW epidemic

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is that neglect
and invisibility.

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I didn't learn about
that MMIW movement.

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It was -- I learned that what
was happening had a name.

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It had an acronym.

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When I saw Jordan Marie Daniel,

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it was a picture of her
with the Red Handprint

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and the acronym down her leg.

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Yeah, she ran
the Boston Marathon.

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Yeah, she dedicated
each of her 26 miles

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to a murdered
or missing indigenous woman,

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and she prayed for them
as she ran.

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I was so shocked, because
she was a Native woman

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in a running uniform.

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The fact that she had paint on

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and she was representing
and advocating

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and doing something more
with her running

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than just empowering herself --
it really opened my eyes.

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I need to do something more,
too, and I really admire her.

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I still do.

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And she's really one of
the most amazing people I know.

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Then I realized,

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when I saw Jordan Marie Daniel
run with the paint,

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that I could combine
my Native culture

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and I could combine, you know,
how I felt about MMIW,

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and I could combine that with my
running that empowered me,

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and I could use that
as a platform.

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So for my final track meet at
Eastern Washington University,

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I ran four events,
and for each of the finals,

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I ran with a red handprint
and MMIW down my right leg.

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The red handprint over my mouth

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was to represent murdered
and missing indigenous women

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and the women that have
been silenced through violence.

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And the MMIW was
the acronym for that.

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I ran the 1600 meter
for Alice Looney,

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the 800 meter
for Jacqueline Salyers,

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the 3200 meter for Renee Davis,

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and the 400 meter
for Misty Upham.

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The 1600 was really difficult

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because it was the first race
I ran with the paint,

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and it was because
it was for someone

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that was related to me...

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...my aunt, Alice Looney.

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I was young, but I remember how
my aunts would talk about her

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and, you know, how she cooked
all the time

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and how she loved cooking
for everybody

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and how one day she just
went missing and was taken.

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They looked for her
for over a year --

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My Aunt Caroline
and my Auntie Mary.

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And then, when she was finally
found, it was a really...

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just stressful moment, and...

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nobody knows still
what happened exactly.

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And while they're grateful
to have her home

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and to not be looking anymore,

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it's still really damaging
to know that, over a year,

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nobody knows
what happened to her.

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When I think about, you know,
my aunt, I think about my sister

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and my other aunties
who are all affected by that.

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And that really was
something difficult,

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you know, to think about
while I was running.

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And when I crossed
the finish line

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at a way slower time
than I expected,

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I didn't know what was going on.

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I felt like
I didn't give everything I had.

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I felt like I let people down.

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And then it wasn't until
I talked to Jordan that night

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and she told me that
what I was feeling was normal

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and that she had experienced
something like that

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when she had ran
with the paint,

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and with that,
it really changed my perspective

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on how I was running these times
and these races.

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And it really wasn't about
the times anymore.

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I ran my 3200 meter
for Renee Davis

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and her unborn son, Massi.

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And she was six months pregnant
at the time with Massi.

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A community member called
for a welfare check,

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and then when
the police arrived,

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they shot her in front
of her two children.

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And from what Native people
have seen,

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police don't care
about Native lives,

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and they don't care
about Native women.

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She was shot
on the Muckleshoot reservation,

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and that's home to me,

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and to know that she was taken
from home was...

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really difficult to think about.

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My 3200 was, by far, one
of the hardest races I ran --

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that I was not
only running for her,

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but I was running for Massi.

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And it was eight laps

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of thinking about her
and her family

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and praying for, you know,
her peace and her rest.

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And it was very emotional just
because of how close she was.

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She was
a Muckleshoot tribal member.

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I dedicated my 800 race
to Jacqueline Salyers.

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Jacqueline Saylers
was from the Puyallup tribe.

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And she was shot
and killed in Tacoma

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when police were trying
to arrest her boyfriend.

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She was pregnant at the time,
and she had children.

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By the time that I got
to the 800,

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it felt more so like
my responsibility.

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All the nerves had gone away,

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and it was really
stepping up to the line

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and knowing that
I had a job to do

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and that this was way bigger
than how my legs felt

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or how tired I was.

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Well, I need to represent
this person,

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and I need to represent them
with grace and honor.

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And I need to be humble
about my actions.

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I dedicated my 400-meter race
to Misty Upham,

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whose disappearance
and finding

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really impacted me
as I was growing up,

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especially being on
the Muckleshoot reservation.

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Misty was a member
of the Blackfeet Nation

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and a successful actress,
who starred in "Frozen River,"

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which made it
to the Golden Globes.

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She was found deceased
on the Muckleshoot reservation

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where I live.

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After going missing for 11 days,

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the police hadn't
looked for her.

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And when Muckleshoot members
finally found her,

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the police mislabeled her death
as a suicide.

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After my 800-meter run,

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I was absolutely exhausted
and emotionally very heavy.

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Right before my last race
for Misty, my coach told me,

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"Remember why
you're doing this?"

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He said,
"I know your legs are tired.

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I know you don't
want to run anymore."

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He said, "I know you
just want to break,

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but you don't care
about any of that.

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I want you to think about your
little sister, Solstice,

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and my girls, Cleo and Nyala,

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and all of the Native girls
and women

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that are depending
on you right now.

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And I want you to run for them,
and I don't want anything left."

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It was kind of hard
not to tear up.

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And I ran out there,
and for a second, I thought,

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"I have nothing left.
I'm gonna come in third."

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And I just -- I sprinted.

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I couldn't even feel my legs
at that point.

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I knew that I had to use
everything I had left

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to represent her fairly

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and -- and to give her
the effort that she deserved.

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When I finished my races,
I really just felt sad.

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I felt upset
when I thought about,

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even though that I was able
to honor and pray for the women,

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the same time, it didn't
change what happened.

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But I knew that I needed
to raise awareness.

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And the only way to change
something that's happening

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is to acknowledge it first,

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to acknowledge
that it's a problem.

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♪♪

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-And I'm here today because,
every day, in this city,

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in this land, in this state,
in this nation,

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our matriarchs are dying,
and they're dying of violence

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that is based on one thing --
that they are indigenous women

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living in a country
built on genocide,

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with continuing colonization
that results

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in the historical trauma,
where our women are dying.

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The voices
that should be singing

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at every one of our ceremonies,

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the hands that should be
cooking the food

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to serve the next generations,
the thoughts and the prayers

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that allow for our
next generations to continue --

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these are the people that we
are losing every single day.

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As we cry together,
as we laugh together,

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as we fight fiercely together,

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we have determined that
this will no longer continue,

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and I want to raise my hands
to the incredible Debora Juarez,

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our councilwoman,
our tribal member,

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our loved one, who has
pushed this to the forefront,

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because right now what you have
the opportunity to pass

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is the very first legislation
in the country

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with real, measurable outcomes.

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We will lead --
not only here in Seattle.

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We will lead this state,

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and we will show
the rest of this country

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the way that it should be done

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because our voices
will not be silent.

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We will sing those songs again,

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and our women
will be present.

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-For me, the murdered indigenous
women started in my family

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in the mid-'60s.

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My sister was murdered here

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in the city of Seattle
with no investigation.

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Her body was brought back

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to Muckleshoot Indian tribe
and buried.

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To this day, every day,
I think of my sisters,

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and she's not the only one
in my family

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who has been murdered
with no investigation.

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-I lost one of my good friends
in the 1980's.

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She never came home
to the Muckleshoot reservation.

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She left our home in Tacoma,
Washington, in the city,

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trying to make it home
and never made it home.

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So that day left
an open heart --

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left an open hole
in my heart forever.

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-My Aunt
Geraldine Naha Hendrickson

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was murdered in downtown
Seattle 21 years ago.

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-'Cause I come from Yakima.
I'll explain this real quick.

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We had from the mid-'70s
to the early '80s --

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we had over 29 women who were
murdered on my reservation.

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-On a personal note,
I would like to say

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that I did have a niece who was
murdered about five years ago.

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So -- So these really do
come to our people.

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-My goddaughter, Maria Flores,
is missing.

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We're doing everything
we can to find her.

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She's a missing child.
She's 17.

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And it wouldn't matter
if she was 40 something.

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We would still go through
the same process.

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We're finding out what doors
we can go through

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and what doors
we need help opening,

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such as the FBI, military C.I.D.

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It's an interesting process, and
I wouldn't wish this on anybody.

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-What I wanted was hard-cut
legislation that says

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and directs SPD to hire and work
with Native communities,

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Native governments,
Native organizations,

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when Native women go missing,

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actually have someone that
has subject-matter expertise,

00:16:44.968 --> 00:16:48.234 align:middle line:00% position:50% size:90%
data analysis, and works with
Native American organizations,

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where their only job
is to serve Native people.

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And that's what we did.

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-Any of the councilmembers
like to say a few words, or...?

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I think, in this situation,
the power of our silence

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means how much we support you

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and what you've brought to us
and -- and the community.

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So I think we should have --

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Our silence is powerful
in this --

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and I've never seen this before,
so thank you.

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Okay, let's vote.

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[Voice breaking] Those...

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Those in favor...

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[ Sobbing quietly ]

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♪♪

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Those in favor of adopting the
resolution, please vote "aye."

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-Aye.
-Aye.

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-Those opposed, vote "no."

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[ Clears throat ]

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[ Clears throat ]
The motion carries.

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The resolution is adopted.

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[ Cheers and applause ]

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♪♪

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-We're going to
provide resources.

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We're gonna show
our commitment --

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not only our civic commitment,

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but a moral commitment
and responsibility

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that when Native women
go missing, we go look for them.

00:18:06.467 --> 00:18:11.634 align:middle line:87% position:50% size:90%
-I have Native women in my life
who need change to happen,

00:18:11.634 --> 00:18:14.667 align:middle line:93% position:50% size:90%
I have Native girls in my life

00:18:14.667 --> 00:18:20.567 align:middle line:87% position:50% size:90%
that are depending
on this change to happen.

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The paint catches
your attention.

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And that's all we need at times,
is to just catch your attention,

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to just listen for a second,
to just look at me for a second

00:18:32.801 --> 00:18:35.834 align:middle line:87% position:50% size:90%
so that I can tell you
what's going on.

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♪♪

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♪♪

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You know, running with the paint
changed my life.

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It was really powerful,

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and it really did change
my perspective on running.

00:19:00.701 --> 00:19:04.100 align:middle line:87% position:50% size:90%
And it changed running
for me forever.

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♪♪

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♪♪

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-The missing and murdered
indigenous peoples crisis

00:19:18.901 --> 00:19:21.167 align:middle line:87% position:50% size:90%
is an issue that I hold close
to my heart

00:19:21.167 --> 00:19:22.634 align:middle line:93% position:50% size:90%
and have made a priority,

00:19:22.634 --> 00:19:25.801 align:middle line:87% position:50% size:90%
even before I was elected
to serve in Congress.

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♪♪

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♪♪

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-[ Chanting in Native language ]

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♪♪

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-Hello, My name is Rosalie Fish,

00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.400 align:middle line:87% position:50% size:90%
and I'm from
the Muckleshoot tribe.

00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.000 align:middle line:93% position:50% size:90%
[ Chanting continues ]

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪

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♪♪