Indigenous Wall Rock Climbing

Many tribes settled into this environment, the Colorado Plateau, developing a complex relationship with its ecosystem, their roles within it, and in turn, adopting cultural traditions and ceremonies based on learned respect for the land and its resources. As varied as there are cultural traditions, so too, are the countless tribes with histories rooted in encounters, migrations, and settlements across the Intermountain West and Southwest. We are most familiar with the tribes whose relationships to this land have been shared through written word and oral histories – the Ute, Navajo, Paiute, and Hopi. We acknowledge that no one individual is representative of an entire culture of people, however, we are honored by each perspective that enhances our ability to learn about the sacredness of this place so many of us call home.(MoabMuseum.org)

Indigenous Wall is dedicated to the people who are originally connected to this land. The wall itself is short in length and in width with easy routes. The idea of this wall is that beginning climbers, disabled, and children will climb here and learn about the land they recreate on.

This land was originally utilized by four tribes. The Ute (Noochew), Navajo (Dineh), Paiute (Nuwuvi), and the Hopi (Hisatsinom).