Kilen Woods State Park

“I was overweight growing up . . .”

…My brother told my dad he wanted to be a trainer and my dad told him, ‘Okay. Your first client is your brother. Help him lose weight.’ And every pound that I lose, he gave him five bucks. He got us a cheap little bench. We’d be out there working out and I was running. It got so serious that my dad got us a treadmill. My brother takes me to the high school to work out in the mornings, [which we called] ‘The Breakfast Club.’ I started losing weight like crazy and then just fell in love with getting fit.”

~Bradly Gauchino from Matika Wilbur’s book Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Wahpeton, Yankton, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

 

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