Rusty's ancestry and heritage make him the ideal person to ARTiculate the "Fight for Humanity".

Rusty is Arikara and Hidatsa from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. His Indian name is "Hooves" and he is a member of the Dead Grass Society in White Shield, North Dakota. Rusty had been a grass dance his whole life and traveled to powwows throughout the United States and Canada. He has also danced in France, Italy and the 1996 Summer Olympics. Rusty is proud to be drug and alcohol-free his whole life.
Rusty's ancestry and heritage make him the ideal person to ARTiculate the "Fight for humanity".

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