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O<\/span>n their second day hiking the N\u00fc\u00fcm\u00fc Poyo, Jolie Varela and Autumn Harry woke up with the sun. After making breakfast and packing up their camp, they hit the trail. It was a sunny, hot day in July but Varela (who is Tule River Yokut and Paiute) and Harry (who is Pyramid Lake Paiute and Din\u00e9) were fortified by their connection to the land and their ancestors.<\/p>\n

Early that afternoon, Varela and Harry stopped near an overlook to take a break. But when they saw another hiker approaching, they moved off the trail to maintain social distancing due to the coronavirus outbreak<\/a>. As they walked into the woods, they found something remarkable\u2014grinding stones. The stones were physical evidence of the presence of their ancestors. \u201cIt almost brings me to tears,\u201d Varela says. \u201cJust knowing that my ancestors were there in that place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Varela, who founded Indigenous Women Hike<\/a> in 2018, has been advocating for years for the history of her people\u2014the Paiute\u2014to be acknowledged on this trail, one of the most popular hikes in the United States. Stretching from Yosemite National Park<\/a> to Mount Whitney in central California, it was named the John Muir Trail in the early 1900s. But for millennia before that, Paiute, Shoshone, and other tribes built and maintained the trail as a popular trade route. In Paiute, the name N\u00fc\u00fcm\u00fc Poyo means the People\u2019s Trail.<\/p>\n

Tumanguya\u2014the Shoshone name for Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the continental U.S.\u2014is practically in Varela\u2019s backyard. She grew up in the small space between Death Valley and Sequoia National Parks<\/a>, both of which receive over 1 million visitors a year. But she never felt like those spaces were made for her or her community. \u201cWe should feel comfortable in these spaces,\u201d she says, explaining that places like the famous climbing destination The Buttermilks are not only her ancestral homelands but places where members of her own family once lived. \u201cBut when we go there we feel unwelcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is an excerpt from an article by Rebecca Nagle, originally published on Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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