The Outdoors Industry Needs to Elevate Native Women’s Voices

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🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Despite our announcement at the beginning of this episode, you can listen to our next episode on 3/10.

In 2020, even the most outdoorsy among us developed a newfound appreciation for wide open spaces, as we sought out safe ways to explore while social distancing. But as more than 237 million visitors took to national parks, and even more took to trails, lakes, and rivers closer to home, certain questions were raised once again: How much do we know about the history of the land we're recreating on and who lived there? And how are we respecting those stories and the modern realities of Indigenous communities?

This week, we're joined by Jaylyn Gough, founder of Native Womens Wilderness (NWW), an online platform that connects Native women and two-spirits to the outdoors. We cover a lot in this episode, including how Jaylyn's childhood relationship with nature developed on the Navajo reservation, the outdoor industry's responsibility to change the narrative around land rights, how NWW has pivoted to aid Indigenous communities acutely affected by COVID-19, and the potential confirmation of Representative Deb Haaland as interior secretary.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. A little housekeeping before we get into the episode. This coming Monday, March 8th,
0:05.5	marks both international women's day and the four-year anniversary of women who travel,
0:09.8	which is why we're releasing next week's episode early on Monday, instead of our usual Wednesday drop.
0:15.4	Be sure to look out for it wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:22.2	Hi there, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Connie Nass Traveler. I'm Meredith
0:26.2	Kerry, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Valera Kowloom. Hello. The pandemic has
0:31.4	sent us in search of wide-open spaces, both as a means of escape from the challenges of the past
0:36.3	year and a way to recreate safely
0:38.3	outside as we continue to social distance. But as more and more of us explore the outdoors,
0:43.1	it's also essential to be respectful of the land that we're on and educate ourselves about
0:46.8	the history of it. And who gets to tell that history? Which is why we're excited to be joined
0:51.1	by our guest, Jalen Goff, founder of Native Women's Wilderness,
0:54.8	an online platform based in Boulder, Colorado, that brings Native women together in the outdoors.
0:59.7	Thanks so much for joining us, Jalen.
1:01.6	Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure.
1:04.1	So, as Meredith already mentioned, throughout this incredibly intense and at times devastating last year,
1:10.5	lots of people have
1:11.6	reconnected with the healing and restful qualities of the outdoors. How has that played out in
1:17.4	your own life, both in the pandemic and beforehand? I think it's been an interesting journey,
1:24.1	you know, respecting the people on the trails, respecting my own health, and ensuring I am
1:30.8	bringing safety to myself and my community. So there's been kind of a hesitancy of being on the
1:37.2	trails and being outside where there's a lot of people. But at the same time, because everything
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