Rosalie Fish on running for missing and murdered indigenous women

Social Sport

July 27, 2020

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.

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Quote: “𝘼𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧: 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩’𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙄 𝙖𝙢; 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙚… 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙖 𝙧𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙢𝙚. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.”

*Photo courtesy of Alex Flett Photography