Cal’ Smith (Lower-Cowlitz, Snoqualmie, Suquamish, Sioux, Yakama)

I wanted to share these ideas because I am the Native American mountain guide who was (is) obsessed with peak-bagging and deconstructing his colonial mindset while also reconstructing a stolen Indigenous identity. The catalyst for this revolution was Takhoma, a cultural centerpiece for many tribes and a nexus of energy, one that budding mountaineers have coveted for nearly a century and a half.