Everybody Leaves a Footprint

Last November, Nike, Inc., officially launched the Nike Air Native N7 Collection, created to promote youth fitness and youth sport programs in Native American communities throughout the country. Nike will use the shoe collection to help finance the N7 program and the Nike “Let Me Play on Native Lands Fund.”

Chairman Ernie Stevens, Jr. who also serves as a board of director for the Nike Native Lands Fund Board has made it his personal commitment to visit a Nike store in every town in conjunction with his travels throughout, representing the National Indian Gaming Association and do his part to personally purchase one or two pairs of the N7 shoe line until each member of his family is wearing the shoe.

During the Native American Heritage Day celebrations in Phoenix, Arizona, in November, Stevens was able to visit the Nike Outlet Store in Tempe, Arizona where he personally purchase two pairs of the N7 shoes for two of his nine grandchildren.