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MISSION:

To inspire and raise the voices of Native Women in the Outdoor Realm. To encourage a healthy lifestyle grounded in the Wilderness. To educate Natives and non-Natives on the rich beauty and heritage of the Ancestral Lands beneath our feet. 

 

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Native Women's Wilderness was created to bring Native women together to share our stories, support each other, and learn from one another as we endeavor to explore and celebrate the wilderness and our native lands.

 

OUR GOALS

We have a lot of goals around here!  These are at the top of our list...

  • Promote women of color in the mainstream advertising campaigns of outdoor retailers.
  • Encourage the celebration of exploration of the outdoors.
  • Provide education of Ancestral Lands and their People. 
  • Inspire women to get outside and enjoy the outdoor realm.  
  • Promote a healthy lifestyle within the Wilderness.
  • Provide resources for information and community.
  • Encourage outdoor education and leadership training for women and school-age girls. 
     

HOW YOU CAN JOIN US

1. Reach out and tell us about who you are!

2. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.

3. Get out and hike! Then tag @NativeWomensWilderness in your photos.

4. Submit a story for our blog. We're always looking to hear from more perspectives and experiences.

5. Donate to help us further our mission of promoting Native women in the outdoors. 

 
 
 

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Meet Cher from the Navajo tribe...sister to NWW’s Founder. Cher participates in Special Olympics in Chicago, IL. Here, she’s in a bowling meet, fun fact: she can bowl better than me, it’s pretty impressive. She has Downs Syndrome, but that doesn’t stop her from being outside and spending her free time in Special Olympics. She sincerely has the biggest heart that I know of and she will love you automatically upon meeting you and will give you the best hug you have ever received. Please support your local Special Olympics. You have no idea how this community drastically changed her life. For once in her life she was accepted and loved. She wasn’t being made fun of how she bounced a basketball, or how she bowls, or what she looks like. This is a special group of people who are just like you and me. In fact I believe they’re much better people than us. Go out and volunteer for SO and meet your own Cher. They’ll love you unconditionally, no matter who you are or represent. __________ Photo: Cher (Navajo) __________ Please use #nativewomenswilderness or DM to be featured. This is a place for our Native women to share, encourage, and support each other in the Outdoor Realm. __________ #nativewomenswilderness#unaplogeticallynativeandproud#wilderness #outside #indigenouswomen#optoutside #rei1440project #forceofnature #diversifyoutdoors #outdoorwomen
“Dreaming of a white Christmas, and snow hikes! ❄️ ♡” ___________ 📸 by @sooorella ___________ Please use #nativewomenswilderness or DM to be featured. This is a place for our Native women to share, encourage, and support each other in the Outdoor Realm. __________ #nativewomenswilderness #unaplogeticallynativeandproud #wilderness #unapologeticallybadass #outside #indigenouswomen #optoutside #diversifyoutdoors #forceofnature #rei1440project #outdoorwomen #themountainsarecalling #NativeWomensWilderness #hiking #pnwonderland #herpnwlife #washingtontrails #likeamountaingirl #liveyouradventure #snowhikes #winterwonderland #obozfootwear #sheexplores #andshesdopetoo #optoutside #washingtonexplored #ourplanetdaily #packinpackout #leavenotrace
@nativewomenswilderness teamed up with world renowned Indigenous artist, @greggdeal to create a design that exemplifies the voices of our Native Womxn, Girls, and Enbies. We are beyond honored and proud of this beautiful work. THANK YOU @greggdeal for your energy and hard work that you put into this design. Head on over to our bio section to buy yours today!
“Why do I keep rucking in the rain...” ___________ 📸 by @indigenous_agent Repping @trickstercompany & @oxdxclothing ___________ Please use #nativewomenswilderness or DM to be featured. This is a place for our Native women to share, encourage, and support each other in the Outdoor Realm. __________ #nativewomenswilderness #unaplogeticallynativeandproud #wilderness #unapologeticallybadass #outside #indigenouswomen #optoutside #diversifyoutdoors #forceofnature #rei1440project #outdoorwomen #ruckitall #themountainsarecalling #AlaskaGirl #NativeWomensWilderness #hiking #goruck #rainorshine #NativesOutdoors #legsfordays
From @byellowtail: Can I get a Lelele for sister @ruth4nd being sworn into office in her finest elk tooth dress today!!!? A Democrat, Buffalo will represent the North Dakota District 27 in the House of Representatives, traditionally a Republican district that includes Fargo, North Dakota.” ➕ She beat the incumbent, former state Rep. Randy Boehning, who sponsored voter ID legislation that sought to suppress the Native vote in North Dakota. ➕ We’re crying! 😭💕 #sherepresents #nativevote18 #indigenouswomenrise ___________ 📷 by @leablackphotography __________ Please use #nativewomenswilderness or DM to be featured. This is a place for our Native women to share, encourage, and support each other in the Outdoor Realm. __________ #nativewomenswilderness #unaplogeticallynativeandproud #wilderness #unapologeticallybadass #outside #indigenouswomen #optoutside #diversifyoutdoors #forceofnature #rei1440project #outdoorwomen
A wonderfully felt message from our ambassador, @queerquechua “Meet my soul twin, the riparian community around me. Some of you know I am a Yakuruna, a fresh water entity rooted in my Andina cosmologies which also is shared by Amazonian cosmologies. (For reference, the being from Shape of Water 💦 was based off of Yakurunas) This creek here—where I originate from—is my lover, my muse, my family. . [CW: disordered eating] A decade ago they were undammed. This happened to coincide with when I began to heal from cascading ancestral grief that took the form of bulimia at the time. There was this excruciating urge to purge what was generations of internalized oppression from my human lineage. This was a part of my task as a riparian being but I struggled to find mentorship in how to remediate and decompose this grief in this human form. . I met them within a year of their liberation. Around the time my twin became undammed, the purge started to move through me and I become to heal. I returned to the lands where Yakurunas originate and worked with the rivers and purging ancestral medicines. This is where I became undammed and was able to restore/re-story my own riparian body. . Our shared twin connection is a dual mythical restoration that waters our sovereignties. Our queerness highly riparian. . When I returned to visit them recently, I felt wobbly in my human form. There I re-encounter who I am over and over through our love for one another. Their little fish kissing my legs as I stood in their warm waters. I re-member my riparian body as I am enveloped in the most loving and erotic way. . Our co-liberation is deeply bound by relationship to our ecological kin. ✊🏽💦 Call me Yaku. 🧜🏽‍♂️” . #queernature #queerecology #queersinnature #queersinthewoods #nothingstraightaboutnature #igetitfrommyancestors #indigequeersoutdoors #indigequeer #indigiqueer #qtpoc #qpoc #tpoc #quariwarmi #yakuruna #decolonizenatureconnection #nonbinary #genderfluid #ecopsychology #eatingdisordersurvivor #removedams #interspeciessolidarity #chthulucene #indigenousrising #indigenousresistance #prideoutside #outsidewithpride __________ 📸 by @queerquechua