Pastora Peak: The Unfortunatue Personal Commentary That Was Posted
Guys, I'm saddened and disgusted by what Jennifer and Gerry Roach wrote, and how Summit.org chose to post it. I feel like it is racist at worst and at best very deeply culturally insensitive and lacking in cultural humility.
I looked up Pastora Peak because I am a New Mexico Healthcare worker and one of my patients who survived COVID 19 grew up near there. Their ancestral lands span centuries and the Carrizos are where they grew up. I hope I do not have to explain that this is Their Land. They were forced off it and rounded up into the concentration camp of Bosque Redondo, and then released 5 years later after signing a treaty the obligated them to send their children to federal boarding schools. I could go on...but hopefully this might spur some people to take a look into history.
My particular patient was a person of incredible honor and dignity, an elder and one of the finest human beings I ever met. And he, too, struggled with alcohol addiction because of the cultural damage that white outsiders have perpetrated through-out 500 years.
I deeply resent how you have chosen to portray Native Americans in this post. Yes, a lot struggle with addiction and will ask you for things that feel offensive and exploitative. And also -- again, you are on their home. You might be wonderful people on a personal level but you represent something invasive and unwelcome, and a $20 permit does not relieve you of that. This post could have been so much more respectfully written. The quote about the "Natives are friendly" makes me sick. It connects me to colonialist referrals to Natives being Restless and white live therefore being in danger.
A more appropriate way to have written this would have been from a place where the traveler puts their personal affront aside and couches their experience in a wider perspective of what it means to be allowed and privileged to climb on lands that aren't yours, and what to be prepared for in the very likely chance that you won't always feel welcome to do so. Which should be expected.
Pastora Peak: The Unfortunatue Personal Commentary That Was Posted
Guys, I'm saddened and disgusted by what Jennifer and Gerry Roach wrote, and how Summit.org chose to post it. I feel like it is racist at worst and at best very deeply culturally insensitive and lacking in cultural humility.
I looked up Pastora Peak because I am a New Mexico Healthcare worker and one of my patients who survived COVID 19 grew up near there. Their ancestral lands span centuries and the Carrizos are where they grew up. I hope I do not have to explain that this is Their Land. They were forced off it and rounded up into the concentration camp of Bosque Redondo, and then released 5 years later after signing a treaty the obligated them to send their children to federal boarding schools. I could go on...but hopefully this might spur some people to take a look into history.
My particular patient was a person of incredible honor and dignity, an elder and one of the finest human beings I ever met. And he, too, struggled with alcohol addiction because of the cultural damage that white outsiders have perpetrated through-out 500 years.
I deeply resent how you have chosen to portray Native Americans in this post. Yes, a lot struggle with addiction and will ask you for things that feel offensive and exploitative. And also -- again, you are on their home. You might be wonderful people on a personal level but you represent something invasive and unwelcome, and a $20 permit does not relieve you of that. This post could have been so much more respectfully written. The quote about the "Natives are friendly" makes me sick. It connects me to colonialist referrals to Natives being Restless and white live therefore being in danger.
A more appropriate way to have written this would have been from a place where the traveler puts their personal affront aside and couches their experience in a wider perspective of what it means to be allowed and privileged to climb on lands that aren't yours, and what to be prepared for in the very likely chance that you won't always feel welcome to do so. Which should be expected.
Lauralu76 - Jun 2, 2022 6:39 am - Hasn't voted
Pastora Peak: The Unfortunatue Personal Commentary That Was PostedGuys, I'm saddened and disgusted by what Jennifer and Gerry Roach wrote, and how Summit.org chose to post it. I feel like it is racist at worst and at best very deeply culturally insensitive and lacking in cultural humility.
I looked up Pastora Peak because I am a New Mexico Healthcare worker and one of my patients who survived COVID 19 grew up near there. Their ancestral lands span centuries and the Carrizos are where they grew up. I hope I do not have to explain that this is Their Land. They were forced off it and rounded up into the concentration camp of Bosque Redondo, and then released 5 years later after signing a treaty the obligated them to send their children to federal boarding schools. I could go on...but hopefully this might spur some people to take a look into history.
My particular patient was a person of incredible honor and dignity, an elder and one of the finest human beings I ever met. And he, too, struggled with alcohol addiction because of the cultural damage that white outsiders have perpetrated through-out 500 years.
I deeply resent how you have chosen to portray Native Americans in this post. Yes, a lot struggle with addiction and will ask you for things that feel offensive and exploitative. And also -- again, you are on their home. You might be wonderful people on a personal level but you represent something invasive and unwelcome, and a $20 permit does not relieve you of that. This post could have been so much more respectfully written. The quote about the "Natives are friendly" makes me sick. It connects me to colonialist referrals to Natives being Restless and white live therefore being in danger.
A more appropriate way to have written this would have been from a place where the traveler puts their personal affront aside and couches their experience in a wider perspective of what it means to be allowed and privileged to climb on lands that aren't yours, and what to be prepared for in the very likely chance that you won't always feel welcome to do so. Which should be expected.
Lauralu76 - Jun 2, 2022 6:39 am - Hasn't voted
Pastora Peak: The Unfortunatue Personal Commentary That Was PostedGuys, I'm saddened and disgusted by what Jennifer and Gerry Roach wrote, and how Summit.org chose to post it. I feel like it is racist at worst and at best very deeply culturally insensitive and lacking in cultural humility.
I looked up Pastora Peak because I am a New Mexico Healthcare worker and one of my patients who survived COVID 19 grew up near there. Their ancestral lands span centuries and the Carrizos are where they grew up. I hope I do not have to explain that this is Their Land. They were forced off it and rounded up into the concentration camp of Bosque Redondo, and then released 5 years later after signing a treaty the obligated them to send their children to federal boarding schools. I could go on...but hopefully this might spur some people to take a look into history.
My particular patient was a person of incredible honor and dignity, an elder and one of the finest human beings I ever met. And he, too, struggled with alcohol addiction because of the cultural damage that white outsiders have perpetrated through-out 500 years.
I deeply resent how you have chosen to portray Native Americans in this post. Yes, a lot struggle with addiction and will ask you for things that feel offensive and exploitative. And also -- again, you are on their home. You might be wonderful people on a personal level but you represent something invasive and unwelcome, and a $20 permit does not relieve you of that. This post could have been so much more respectfully written. The quote about the "Natives are friendly" makes me sick. It connects me to colonialist referrals to Natives being Restless and white live therefore being in danger.
A more appropriate way to have written this would have been from a place where the traveler puts their personal affront aside and couches their experience in a wider perspective of what it means to be allowed and privileged to climb on lands that aren't yours, and what to be prepared for in the very likely chance that you won't always feel welcome to do so. Which should be expected.