One of my most recent achievements is capping off a 5 year steak in the st Paul rodeo mile. It's a road race ran in St Paul, Alberta every year during thier rodeo. A community surrounded by several reserves which support the exconomy of St Paul. It's hard for me to believe I won the race for half a decade. I first found out about the race by visiting relatives and going to a powwow, when I saw a poster in a local grocery store about the race. That journey turned out to something more as I race it that weekend. The race today supports the track and field Club NEAT, Every year allot of native youth see the race. A few years back one of the the city councilers spoke of eradicating the "drunken indian problem" and later apoligized after Saddle lake reserve banned the town.

 For me its all about running and if I can change one person perpective on life than its really furfilling, expecailly the native youth who dont always get chance or opportunity because of attitudes like this.

Something I learned from sport is to have respect for other athletes and yourself. Below is something I like share and is of my own experience and opinions.

Native Athletes can learn to overcome negetive attitudes of racism by action and respect for one another though the Sport, every one is eqaul and deserves respect. If no respect is given to other athletes than its oneself who does not respect themselves , sport or their community. Athetes can than focus all their energy to improving and reaching thier goals. When this happens they are not victims of racism and become survivors. Early in my career I used to fight people with these attitutes or react to them and it leads to wasted energy and is not the true battle, its better to ignore this and focus on their goals. Athletes can learn more, achieve more by focusing all thier energy on their discipline.

 It doesn't matter what others think or may do because nothing can stop you if you fully respect yourself, others and are devoted to your passion.  Its not easy for native athletes to enter sport with these extra barriers but its part of the journey which is more furfilling when they hold hope in hardest times and create their own path to reaching thier goals.

 When they saw me race and win the St Paul Rodeo Mile, it gives them hope, I know this works because I seen other native athletes acheiving thier goals and than nothing can seem impossible despite the extra obstacles and barriers native athletes face.

By running the St Paul over half a decade, it has been something I have appeciated and has help me create a friendship with the organizers and citizens of St Paul. The St Paul rodeo mile silver shark torphy has been retired to me after winning it for 5 years straight.

I like to end this blog with a qoute form John F Kennedy "All of us don't have eqaul talent, but all of us should get eqaul opportunity to develop those talents"