{"id":37728,"date":"2024-08-15T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/medicine-wheel-ride-partners-with-harley-davidson-in-5th-annual-memorial-ride\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T02:20:25","slug":"medicine-wheel-ride-partners-with-harley-davidson-in-5th-annual-memorial-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/medicine-wheel-ride-partners-with-harley-davidson-in-5th-annual-memorial-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicine Wheel Ride partners with Harley-Davidson in 5th annual memorial ride"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The bike ride brought large crowds to Outlaw Square in downtown Deadwood, where South Dakota based Indigenous performed a free two-hour concert. (Photo by Darren Thompson)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

DEADWOOD \u2014 This year\u2019s Medicine Wheel Ride brought more than 200 bikers to the annual memorial ride, where decorated bikers ride through the Black Hills and raise awareness to missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Prior to Sunday\u2019s ride in the Black Hills, riders finished a 10-day 2,211-mile ride in the Western United States. The ride began on Friday, July 26 at the Chumash Reservation in Southern California and others met along the way to finish the last part of the ride through the Black Hills.<\/p>\n

For the past five years on the first Sunday of the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, bikers and spectators convened at the Bear Butte State Park near Sturgis and gathered in prayer. 192 riders\u2014each decorated with ribbons and information about a missing Indigenous person\u2014 registered at Bear Butte but along the ride others joined said Lorna Cuny, Oglala Lakota and co-founder of the Medicine Wheel Ride. This year\u2019s ride was the 5th annual and unlike in years past, the ride ended at Outlaw Square in Deadwood rather than at the Crazy Horse Memorial.<\/p>\n

The change was largely due to a sponsorship with Harley-Davidson, but road construction on the route to Crazy Horse Memorial also dampened the organized ride through the Black Hills. The bike ride brought large crowds to Outlaw Square in downtown Deadwood, where South Dakota based Indigenous performed a free two-hour concert. Organizers showed \u201cWe Ride for Her,\u201d a documentary about the Medicine Wheel Ride at the beginning of the event. In years past, riders would participate in an afternoon of education and presentation by various speakers for several hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s ride was very different because we didn\u2019t go to Crazy Horse,\u201d said Lorna Cuny to Native Sun News Today. \u201cWe went to Outlaw Square where Harley Davidson Motor Company was hosting a fundraising event for our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

The aims to show \u201cWe Ride for Her\u201d brought some worry for Lorna, and other organizers because they didn\u2019t want to be exploitive. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be exploitive to families who shared their stories around this issue, but it\u2019s important because there are groups of people who don\u2019t even know this is an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deadwood has a history of gambling and prostitution, whereas the Sturgis bike rally has a history sex trafficking. Last year, five men were arrested during an annual sex-trafficking sting operation at the rally and in the last ten years 76 men have been arrested for sex-trafficking during the rally. According to the City of Deadwood\u2019s website, prostitution was legal from the city\u2019s founding in 1876 through 1980. Taking the ride through Sturgis and Deadwood, with Harley-Davidson as a partner in their messaging, are signs that more people are listening said Cuny.<\/p>\n

Today, in South Dakota, Native American women and girls constitute 40 percent of sex trafficking victims, according to \u201cThe Neglected Epidemic of Missing BIPOC Women and Girls\u201d report made to the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in March 2022. The Chairman, Congressman Jamie Raskin, of Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties also commented on the lack of media coverage of missing Indigenous women.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust one example\u2014in Wyoming, out of the more than 700 Indigenous women who have gone missing in the last 10 years, less than one in five received any media coverage at all. How is that possible?\u201d said Congressman Raskin in his statement in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Medicine Wheel Riders at Outlaw Square for their Kick Stands Up event. (Photo by Darren Thompson)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Raskin also commented in his statement, \u201cFor example, in South Dakota, 2-of-3 missing persons are Native American despite only 1-of-10 South Dakotans being Native American.\u201d The Medicine Wheel Ride is a nonprofit organization that organizes around missing Indigenous women and victims of violence, including human or sex trafficking. Their mission is to end human and sex trafficking of Indigenous women and people.<\/p>\n

Cuny said that Harley donated a 2024 Harley-Davidson Street Glide, valued at $25,999, and various organizations will be selling tickets through Christmas Eve. All proceeds from the sweepstakes are slated to go help the Medicine Wheel Ride continue its advocacy and mission. For more information on the Medicine Wheel Ride, and their plans for next year\u2019s ride, visit their website at www.medicinewheelride.org<\/a> or find them on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really amazing,\u201d Cuny said of Medicine Wheel Ride\u2019s partnership with Harley-Davidson. Cuny shared that the relationship with Harley-Davidson sprouted last year after the 2023\u2019s rally. \u201cI was able to meet Harley\u2019s CEO and he really like what our mission was about, and what we aimed to do and ever since we talked about ways to expand our outreach,\u201d Cuny said. \u201cA company you wouldn\u2019t thinking would support Indigenous issues, and for them to want to step up, is amazing for us.<\/p>\n

(Contact Darren Thompson at darrenjthompson@hotmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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