Climbing and Not Climbing on Indigenous Lands

Photo: Valley of Fire Petroglyphs

2021 Spotlight

Climbing on Sacred Land: Understanding and Respecting Indigenous Culture

Questions

• What sort of climbing are we advocating?
• How can we do a better job of manifesting tourism – including climbing – that is managed and developed by Indigenous allies – the guides, the providers of accommodation and transportation, the cooks and farmers, artisans, and educators? Are we listening to their concerns and interests?
• What are examples of good practice?
• What are the names in Indigenous languages of these places?
• What are land acknowledgements?
• How do we stop the vandalism?

Key Links

Utah Diné Bikéyah @UtahDineBikeyah
Kanaka Climbers Founder and Director
Access Fund, Executive Director

Embedded Tweets

UDB's very own Angelo Baca will be joining Climbing on Sacred Land: Understanding and Respecting Indigenous Culture TODAY at 5:00 p.m. MT: https://t.co/4HV9bmOuA2

— Utah Diné Bikéyah (@UtahDineBikeyah) April 27, 2021

"Traditional Owners provide us their thoughts about what that means to them, we also have a look at what risk of harm there is… then we determine the suitability of access."

Rock-climbing bans in Grampians unveiled in draft plan to protect cultural siteshttps://t.co/Lf2Iz1BvkB

— ABC Indigenous (@ABCIndigenous) November 13, 2020

Headlines
The Impossibility of Ethical Recreation on Stolen Land – New Republic
Ancient petroglyphs damaged by climber in Utah
Coloradan Called Out for Bolting Over Petroglyphs – Outside
Petroglyph Bolter Apologizes, Receives Death Threats – Climbing

Elsewhere on the Web
Indian Land Tenure Foundation
Youtube
@indianland

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