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Episode 23: Rosalie Fish on running for missing and murdered indigenous women

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Rosalie Fish is a young woman from the Muckleshoot Reservation in Auburn, Washington. She is a member of the Cowlitz and Muckleshoot Tribes and a competitive runner who races for the countless missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). In the spring of 2019, Rosalie qualified for 4 events in the Class 1B Washington State Track Meet, painted a red handprint over her mouth, and dedicated each race to a missing or murdered indigenous woman from her reservation. She would go on to win 3 events, and come in 2nd in the 4th. Rosalie has since taken her activism to the college level, as she balances school and collegiate running with traveling and speaking about MMIW and other injustices against native people. 

Learn more about Rosalie:

  • Instagram: @rosaliefishx
  • Rosalie's Ted Talk
  • "Rosalie Fish is Running to End Violence Against Indigenous Women," Off the Cuff

    • Also discussed in this episode:

    • Rosalie's high school state meet dedication 
    • Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel: podcast episode on Running on Om
    • Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019
    • Urban Indian Health Institute study: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls
    • Restore Indigenous Sovereignty 
    • Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse edited by Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Foreword by Darnell L. Moore
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