And with me, that's my running and my speaking.”ĭespite never meeting his great-grandfather, Stevens feels a strong connection to the past.
You should want to go out there and represent your people the best way that you can. “To be Native American, you should want to be proud of that,” Ku said. The inaugural Remembrance Run held in August was a 50-mile trek made by 150 people over the course of two days, following the path Stevens’ great-grandfather, Frank Quinn, took in his attempt to escape Stewart Boarding School to return home to Yerington more than a century ago. Those that ran away and those that didn't make it home.” So our journey then with the ‘Remembrance Run’ was to remember them. My grandpa was 8 years old when he was taken away from his family, as were so many other native children who in placed in Stewart Boarding School, which back in the day was vicious. And that's meaningful to us that we could recognize that the sacrifice that he made. He runs because he can, because it's his right, because we live in a different world now where kids aren't taken in and have those things happen to them.”Īdded Stevens' father, Delmar: “We are native people.
He had to run to survive, but Ku doesn’t have to. “I know he is because Ku doesn't have to run and Togo did. “Oh, I know Togo is smiling,” said Misty, Stevens’ mother. Two generations later, the senior runs for his great-grandfather and others like him, creating The Remembrance Run this summer in his honor.
Stevens’ great-grandfather was imprisoned at Carson’s Stewart Indian School in the 1910s and tried to run away three times before gaining freedom. Northern Nevada’s fastest runner, Stevens is a Yerington Paiute deeply connected to his past. Kutoven Stevens is a one-man cross country team for Yerington High School, but he runs for an entire tribe.
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