All Native Team Climbs Tahoma with Rachel Heaton

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Heaton, member of the Muckleshoot Indian tribe, with Duwamish Ancestors, led an All Native Tahoma (Mount Rainier) Climb this September with the goal to see her people represented on the mountain while inspiring the other Native climbers to enjoy the connection to their land. Due to weather constraints, the group was not able to summit, but in the end, they realized the climb was about so much more.

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0:00.0	Mother Earth doesn't need us, but we absolutely need her.
0:03.6	Like we can't live without Mother Earth, but she can live without humans.
0:07.0	And you know, when we think about the power that nature carries, I feel like it removes that whole idea of conquering.
0:17.0	Rachel Heaton hails from the Muckleshoot tribe in the Pacific Northwest.
0:22.9	She lives and works on her reservation
0:24.9	about an hour away from the base of Tahoma,
0:27.4	the mountain commonly known as Mount Rainier.
0:30.6	We'll refer to it as Tahoma for the remainder of the episode.
0:34.0	About five years ago, when Rachel was in her early 40s, she started hiking and mountaineering.
0:40.0	She fell in love with being out on the trail and it brought her even closer to her land and her people.
0:46.0	In 2023, Rachel organized the first all native team to climb the mountain.
0:52.0	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth
0:54.7	living an REI co-op studio's production.
0:59.4	In 2017 Rachel Heaton's world turned upside down. Alongside thousands of others, she went to Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota to protest against the U.S. government's Dakota Access pipeline.
1:15.5	The experience was intense and when Rachel came home she struggled to go back to her day-to-day life.
1:21.8	She became depressed, quit her job of 20 years, and then found out that she was
1:25.9	unexpectedly pregnant. Rachel already had two teenage children at home, and she thought she was done having
1:31.9	kids.
1:35.0	I had this new baby again and I'm like,
1:37.0	how do I, how do I like continue to like have this lifestyle
1:42.0	and be able to go to the gym because that was my go to for my mental health.
1:46.0	And I just started working in our culture department when he was about six months old.
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