We Run For Them
Hózhó Path RenewalOur Why
Why we run.
Across the United States and Canada, Indigenous people go missing and are murdered at rates far above the national average — and too many of their cases are never counted. We run because a name said out loud is a name that is not erased.
Our parent organization, Hózhó Path Renewal, works to restore hózhó — the Diné principle of balance, beauty, and harmony. This run turns grief into motion and remembrance into change.
5,712
missing & murdered Indigenous women and girls identified in a single 2018 study (Urban Indian Health Institute)
116
of those 5,712 cases were logged in the U.S. federal missing-persons database
10×
the national average murder rate for Indigenous women living on some reservations (U.S. DOJ)
3rd
leading cause of death for Native women is murder (U.S. DOJ)
Sources: Urban Indian Health Institute (2018); U.S. Department of Justice; National Indigenous Women's Resource Center.