It’s not often you see an indigenous man in full war paint running down a highway.
But that is exactly what Brad Firth, better known as Caribou Legs, is doing.
He left B.C on Mother’s Day, to run across the country raising awareness around missing and murdered indigenous women.
He says violence against women has touched his own family after his sister was killed by her partner.
“I wanted to just honour her. And some friends suggested that I partner up with Sisters in Spirit and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women campaign and carry my memory and respect for my sister into a larger platform.”
“I have been running in honour of my sister, who was murdered last year” #MMIWG #MMIW activist @cariboulegs1 pic.twitter.com/nSTtEqJze4
— NWAC (@NWAC_CA) September 7, 2016
Caribou Legs will be giving talks this weekend in Halifax at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre, the Museum of Natural History, and Dalhousie University.
Firth says he wants men to own their issues.
“I just want men to stop beating their wives, or stop running interference in the home so that children can live safely and families can live more peacefuly and spiritually.”
He will continue his run through Nova Scotia and expects to wrap up his cross country trek next month in St.John’s, Newfoundland.
