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Edison Eskeets ran in homage to those Navajo captives whose lives were snuffed out in 1864 during the forced march known as the Long Walk as he cut across New Mexico on washboard roads flanked by sandstone buttes.

He jogged toward the Interstate 40 frontage roads where the vehicles move faster near Gallup and Church Rock, where he was taught English as a boy. In the coming days, he would turn 60 and would reach Albuquerque, leaving behind the sacred lands of the Diné in his fleet-footed wake. He had commenced running with the nightmarish history on his mind way back near Chinle, Ariz., deep in the heart of the Navajo Nation.

In 2018, Eskeets retraced the Long Walk, a forced march whereby thousands of Diné were moved by the U.S. government from their homeland to a reservation in Ea

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