Sacred Ride

1996

Started a computer training at United Indian Nations (UIN) completed and received a certificate of completion.

Worked with staff on acquiring 3.75 acres at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, which included a large building. Oakland City Council unanimously passed it.

1997

Ran for the Board of Directors of Inter-Tribal Friendship House and won a seat appointed Treasurer. Helped get the restraining orders to be dropped so the newly elected board could enter the House. Helped the House get out of a 386,000.00 debt. Resigned from the board once the House got out of debt.

Started to teach Native women at the Family Guidance Center to learn how to prepare food for them – self-sufficiency.

1998

Started one of the firsts Native American Internet news networks – Tribalink .com, which was, accredited the breaking story that Ishi was not the last Yahi, which two weeks after breaking the story the Smithsonian Institute admitted it was true. At the height of the WebPages the number of daily hits reaches over 15,000 and were approach by Salon .com for linkage.

Then started working with the American Indian Public Charter School with the Principle Luke Enemy Hunter which we started a food program serving some 80 Native American students while teaching them how to cook. It lasted 6 months with no injuries to any student.

Started the first Bay Area’s Native American Catering (RunningWolf Catering) business with Patricia Alcala-Mosely and employed only Native Americans featuring Native American foods. Cooked for Indigenous Nations and the University of California at Berkeley undergraduate graduation. Also was a guest chef at the International House featuring Native foods.

1999

Appointed to the Peace and Justice commission in the City of Berkeley by Board of Education Terry Duran. .

Assisted the students of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley keep Ethnic Studies a autominous from American Studies. A key figure role between the University and the Indian community getting as many as 1200 signatures to the Chancellor Berdall. After a hunger strike the students won the right to keep Ethnic Studies but also an increase in professors – 4 tenor Native American professors and a study center which became a new department – Race and Gender.

I entered the Stanford Pow-Wow run and ending up winning it bringing running back into my life. I had stopped running for many years after suffering from Tuberculous at the age of thirty.

Started a protests in the city of Berkeley to change the name of Columbus school. While trying to enter the name Muwekma into the list of names but unsuccessful. The School eventually named Rosa Parks.

My adopted father passed away and he left me some inheritance.

2000

I invested some money to my Native American catering business.

I decided to run 1500 miles from Oakland to Browning, Montana to try to bring awareness to the American Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 protecting native children from being adopted outside their culture. Native Americans suffer 200 times the rate of drug and alcohol abuse when brought up outside their culture. It was also to prove the Blackfeet Nation I was going to try to help the situation on the Blackfeet Nation. The run cost me some 15,000 dollars

I donated 3000 dollars to the International Tradition Games run by Deanna Leader.

I worked with Stephanie Manning getting a memorial for the shellmound burial ground in Emeryville and got the shellmound in Berkeley landmarked by the Historical commission of the City of Berkeley.

Started working with NPCA (National Parks Conservation Association) getting better access to the National Parks both access but also employment opportunities for people of color. I was able to get a individual office set up for Glacier National Park.

I invested 15,000 in the Blackfeet Bottle Water company owned by Mary Reeevis (Steve Reevis’s sister).

I campaigned for proposition 5 and or 1A giving the right for California tribes to have casinos on their land. Winning decisively 2 to 1.

I started my own WebPages “Kanatsitapiiksi.org” in my Blackfeet language, which means “All Tribes”.

I immediately decided to run 1000 miles through California to 28 gaming casinos to get contributions to urban Native American nonprofits. AP press said for “RunningWolf’s efforts, he gets a T-shirt and a hat”. The run cost me 10,000 dollars.

2001

I crossed the color lines and ran 4,400 miles from San Francisco to Philadelphia for Mumia Abu-Jamal. I hired a filmmaker to capture the run and it ran me 50,000 dollars. I was in Ohio when the planes hit and ran into Philly with George Bush at 90% approval rating.

Mother passed away.

I was a Guest Chef at International House (UCB) for the Thanksgiving dinner featuring Native foods.

I bought a bicycle and committed to take care of the original mother with the money I inherited so I refused to drive until we get a responsible fuel source. I’m going on to my 4^th year of this commitment.

2002

I started spiritual runs from Truckee to South Lake Tahoe (75 miles) while running picking up trash.

I was working with Otis Parrish(Californian Indian) and found out that the Pheobe Hearst Museum had 88 items of the Blackfeet Nation and a total of 100,000 items of all nations in drawers at the museum. I was instructed by members of my tribe to let them stay because certain members would sell them on Ebay.com or by other means. I was not to bring them home yet.

My best friend was killed I started to go into a year of mourning. During this period I was to lose my entire support in a 20 month span which included my father, my mother, my brother –stole 100,000 dollars from me, my best friend Mike Hart, my girlfriend and finally my Dine little brother was to die from a brain aneurysm.

Started guest lecturing at Ethnic Studies with professor Robert Collins.

Started a protest the Cleveland Indians at the Oakland Coliseum and started designing the No Red Sambo bumper sticker with Bobby Young. I bought 10,000 bumper stickers for 3,000 dollars. The police started to pay attention to my return to the political scene. Started to getting harassed which I would be in custody 23 times in the next 20 months for various offenses like not having a bike light. The police would also not report my property when arrested I lost several cellphones and bikes. All political material would be confiscated

2003

February I went homeless.

I started to clean Lake Merritt by myself and soon found the Lake Merritt Institute.

Started volunteering with Food not Bombs.

Gave the rest of my material goods to schools (Zapata Street Academy-books), Construction material to the Humanist Hall along with kitchen equipment to Food not Bombs.

Met a non-native elder who started me on alternative energy and other topics.

Started working on alternative energy including biodiesel. Started distributing information about biodiesel to the Native community and to non-Natives in the Bay Area graciously supplied by the Ecology Center. At this it was at the height of the Ashcroft fear and I knew had to put up dissent and this would evolve in putting up bumper stickers (free if possible but what little money I did have went to bumper stickers from Russell on Telegraph Ave and some from the Ecology Center. I was experienced in the Native community, as the press has never been for us-it worked. I came up with the saying if the oppressor owns the airwaves and newsprint that I owned the streets.

Started a permaculture class offered by Boss for the homeless. Daniel allowed me to sleep in the garden. I enjoyed it immensely and it brought my best friend back to me. I also fought the term permaculture as a term to rip off Native American wisdom, which now stands at 50,000 years old.

I started volunteering fixing old (recycled) bikes at Tinkers Workshop (Biodiesel) and once you help the children for a day you can come back and build yourself one for free (I’m the proud recipient of 4 of the bikes).

Help defeat proposition 54

Campaigned for Dennis Kucinich served as his advisor on Mumia Abu Jamal and Leornard Peltier, also got his and Barbara Lee support against the Cleveland Indians Logo.

Started gathering support and proposal for 2400-mile bike ride to Albuquerque (Gathering of the Nations) to promote Boidiesel.

2004

I concentrated on promoting biodiesel and promoting the 2400-mile bike ride To Gathering of the Nations. I was living on 20.00 a week and in the month of February and March started to increase mileage at one point as much as 70 miles a day.

Started working on a new show at KPFA – Bay Native Circle (1/2 hour show once a week about the Native community).

The bus trip falls apart when the house I was to get the bus from demands 3000.00 dollars for the use of the bus the night before we were to have taken it to Inter-Tribal Friendship House to have my community paint the bus.

3 weeks later we end up taking a biodiesel Jetta and doing the trip just to 10 reservations instead of 30 and filmed the elders at Big Mountain – FBI showed up.

Started working for the Humanist Hall – construction.

Started a ban of genetically altered foods in the City of Berkeley.

Busted in July for driving without a license. 250,000 dollar bail and taken to El Dorado County and threatened with 5 years. I get out after spending all of July in jail. The government reveals my run across the country and my work with biodiesel is killing them.

Attended Black August week long healing between African-Americans and Native Americans and was honored for my run across America for Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Started protesting the illegal hanging of UCB Nobel Laureate (14 white males and 1 Asian male) on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. They were taken down-we won.

Started working with Education Not Incarceration getting my community aware of Measure Y in the City of Oakland – we lost the measure but I know the electronic voting machines were tampered with.

2005

April 18^th departed on a 1300-mile bike ride from Oakland, CA to Albuquerque, NM promoting green energy (solar, wind and biodiesel) in the Native American community. As a result now considered na elder in the Native American community.