https://www.teenvogue.com/story/navajo-nation-skateboarder-tiktok
"Naiomi Glasses, a Diné skateboarder in Navajo nation, happened upon a red
sandstone slope to skate on — in her now-viral TikTok — by accident. “I live in
the middle of nowhere and when I found that first sandstone, I was out looking
for sheep. My grandma owns sheep and sometimes they get lost, and I thought the
sandstone looked skate-able.” With the nearest skatepark hours away, Naiomi
resorted to turning the desert landscape into her own skatepark.
With her skateboard in hand and encouragement from her brother, she skated down
the earth-colored sandstone with finesse. “My brother is like my hype man,” she
quips.
Glasses took to skateboarding early when at 5 years old she saw her older
brother’s friend skateboarding and was mesmerized. An adventurous and
precocious spirit, Naiomi practiced skateboarding in her kitchen under her
mom’s supervision. “When I was younger, I liked trying new things. I tried
skateboarding and thought, ‘this is it!’,” she tells
Teen Vogue."
Via Muse, who wrote "How COOL is this!"
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