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Anishinaabe Spirit Run returns for 25th Year

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Published July 31, 2023 at 11:25 AM CDT

Flyer for the 25th Annual Anishinaabe Spirit Run features runners with eagle staffs on the left and the right, and a group picture of participants. — Flyer for the 25th Annual Anishinaabe Spirit Run

The Spirit Run is to raise awareness of healing, wellness and recovery

RED LAKE—The Anishinaabe Spirit Run will return for its 25^th year this week.

Registration is at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at the Red Lake Pow Wow Grounds, concluding in the Mash-Ka-Wisen Sobriety Pow Wow Arena in Sawyer.

The 200-mile Spirit Run will go to Cass Lake on the first day, on to Grand Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 3, Floodwood on Friday, Aug. 4, then to Sawyer on Saturday, Aug. 5.

Formerly known as the sobriety run and using the Native American medicine wheel as a guide, this year’s participants will carry a message of running for 25 years to raise awareness of healing, wellness and recovery.

Registration will begin at 10 a.m. on each day of run location after the first registration in Red Lake.

Participants 17 and under will need to be accompanied by an adult.

For more information, contact Jason Hart at 218-556-0799; Tom Barrett at 218-639-0261; or Gary Charwood at 218-760-7955.

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The Spiritual Run was created in honor of the school shooting tragedy that occurred on the Red Lake Reservation in 2005. Since then, the Leech Lake Band has continued this Spiritual Run for wellness every year.