Vogue.com Article: Meet Najiah Knight, the 13-Year-Old Girl Upending the World of Professional Bull Riding

And then you meet Najiah Knight, who aims to join their ranks—all 4-foot-10 and 70 pounds of her. Najiah, a Native American of Paiute and Klamath ancestry who hails from tiny Arlington, Oregon (population 586), is in her fourth season on the Mini Bull Riders tour, the junior version of the PBR for kids aged 8 to 13. Fear—whether that means worrying about what other people think or worrying about what a thousand-pound bull might do to her (MBR bulls, while fully grown, are lighter than PBR bulls, with shorter legs)—isn’t part of her vocabulary.

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