Last Year's (2023) Sacred Run - Reflections as the 33rd annual prayer run begins next week, July 18-21, 2024
“I will always run and leave the reservation to pray high above Mt Graham to protect the greatest gift to us all our Mother Earth. The United States government will not stop me. I will always keep my religious ways that God blessed us with. I ask you all respectfully to join us and to stand together so that all creation that is yet to be born on earth will be born as it always has been. Help us protect the water, the air, the animals and our way of life from a government who gives these precious places to corporations who are destroying all life. May you be blessed with Gods touch of love. Blessings to all.” – Dr. Wendsler Nosie, Sr, Apache Stronghold
About Stephen Pavey -- I am an artist, a visual storyteller, a contemplative, a cultural organizer – all of which come together in the vocation of cultivating a way to see, in order to bear witness to the world both as it is, and as it could be. My creative process is deeply shaped by prayer and a praxis of accompanying and being accompanied by humanity and our more-than-human relatives marginalized & oppressed by settler colonialism & capitalism. It's really about connection as we collectively face the forces that alienate and fracture us. My creative work focuses on hope – the hope we must live into of re-connecting with ourselves, with each other, and the more-than-human world around us.