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Smiling baby bear from #NezPerceTrail2021 and @yel

Smiling baby bear from #NezPerceTrail2021 and @yellowstonenps 🐻

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Thanks for following our #NezPerceTrail2021 journe

Thanks for following our #NezPerceTrail2021 journey.

We wanted to see this through at Bear Paw, the way the Nez Perce Tribe did in 1877 -- tired and well-traveled, witnesses to colonialist injustices and attacks on sovereignty and freedom. It's not over.

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No. 17 is the last chronological post in a series

No. 17 is the last chronological post in a series about #NezPerceTrail2021. It focuses on sacred spaces; we decided to add Little Bighorn and Bear Paw to the journey, making five battlefields in all.

Chief Joseph is memorialized in Laurel, Montana. He was a great man, but not the military commander that white America believed as it misunderstood Native culture completely.

The monument at Canyon Creek, part of @NezPerceNPS, has seen better days. Here, Chief Looking Glass' snipers held off the 7th cavalry so the Nez Perce non-combatants could put some distance on the U.S. Army.

The battle at Little Bighorn happened a year before the Nez Perce flight and undoubtedly intensified the U.S. determination to squash Native American resistance ... to taking away their self-determination.

This was called Custer Battlefield until 1991. I hate the romanticization of Custer as an "Indian killer" who once turned down command of the Buffalo Soldiers because he preferred to lead white soldiers.

The Little Bighorn monument is on Crow land, where this Trading Post is named after Custer. In 1877, the Crow refused assistance to the Nez Perce and stole 300 of their horses at Canyon Creek.

The Bear Paw Battlefield wasn't originally on our itinerary. It's about four hours up from Billings and four hours back. We'd already traveled a lot, but so had the Nez Perce in 1877.

Chief Looking Glass decided to rest, rather than sprinting the last 40 miles to Canada. Sassia observes that rest should not be considered a penalty. The Nez Perce should not have feared for their lives.

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No. 16 in a series about #NezPerceTrail2021 is ded

No. 16 in a series about #NezPerceTrail2021 is dedicated to @sashhhhhhh10 who has fallen for the bison, its symbolism and spirit, as have I. Also, bison habitat ostensibly was the object of the Nez Perce passing through @yellowstonenps.

Though I have had delightful intersections with North America's largest mammal over the years, they have been difficult for me to photograph because of their dark colors and texture of their fur.

These images are different for me. They are from our last two mornings in Lamar Valley, and the light was glorious.

It was early enough that we were mostly solitary and fortunate that we had big pullouts right next to big herds.

We glimpsed in these moments the freedom that was being pursued on the #NezPerceTrail by the #NezPerceTribe -- and us.

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No. 15 in a series about #NezPerceTrail2021 is ano

No. 15 in a series about #NezPerceTrail2021 is another wildlife extravaganza because the trail is bountiful, especially when returning to @YellowstoneNPS as we did. Tomorrow's post will be a bison-palooza; this is everything else.

We were staying in Cooke City (where we had a great dinner at the Beartooth Cafe) and the area between there and Lamar Valley was good to us. We saw this grizzly early in the morning and there was no bear jam whatsoever. Our last bear sighting of the trip was a good one!

The first moose was a run-and-gun, out-my-window shot. I sacrificed art for not holding up other people. How many others do you believe think that way?

We got a great look at the moose cow and calf, but it was evening and the shadows hampered long-lens photography. Still, it was a memorable viewing.

The male pronghorn is flashing its I-see-you-and-I'm-about-to-bolt look. He and his mate were cool with our being close ... until right then.

I wish I had better shots of the coyote and/or its two pack mates. We got a good look at the three wandering near a huge herd of bison. One of them had a bad limp, poor thing.

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Hi, this is No. 14 in a series about #NezPerceTrai

Hi, this is No. 14 in a series about #NezPerceTrail2021. The point of yesterday's video was to display the challenging route taken by the Nez Perce, as they were pursued by the U.S. Army in 1877.

I read about Dead Indian Pass while preparing to visit Cody four years ago. I thought the name racist, but was intrigued. A white-knuckle driver, I hired a guide to take me down the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway. That ride led to this trip.

Dead Indian Pass is where the Nez Perce warriors, children, elders and horses feinted toward the Shoshone River, but doubled back and took treacherous Dead Indian Gulch to Clarks Fork. Certain they'd cut off any reasonable route to the Great Plains, the Army forces were flummoxed.

That's Sassia on the Sunlight Bridge, the highest in Wyoming.

The Sunlight Bridge looks down into Clarks Fork Canyon, to which the @npt1855 made their legendary escape from the Absorka Mountains. By then, it was clear their old allies, the Crow, were not going to side against the U.S. government.

There is a look at Clarks Fork Canyon from the bottom. It's still a foreboding place, strewn with boulders as far as the eye can see and lots of flags for such a remote place, if you know what I mean.

Sassia and I were en route to Cooke City, so we turned onto the renowned Beartooth Highway, named after this spire for obvious reasons. This road was opened for 2021 just two days earlier.

The #NezPerceTrail interpretive site is just outside Cooke City. If you didn't know to look for it, you'd likely drive on by. We were shocked at the absence of signage along the whole Nez Perce Trail. We saw nine in 16 days, the last two within a mile of the Bear Paw battlefield.

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So we did a thing for @florangelad birthday, packi

So we did a thing for @florangelad birthday, packing up Santana Banana and tripping to Whidbey Island.

We hit one of Santana's favorite spots -- Double Bluff Beach Off Leash Dog Park. The poor girl is in SUCH need of a haircut (alert: groomers!) that she plopped right down in the water.

I got a crack at sunrise photos and we visited @ebeyslanding_nhr for the first time.

It was a nice, little getaway for a special occasion!

No. 13 in my #NezPerceTrail2021 series is a video

No. 13 in my #NezPerceTrail2021 series is a video of the Chief Joesph Scenic Byway, to set up tomorrow's post. Hwy 296 follows the tortuous path of the Nez Perce out of Yellowstone in 1877.

This is the curviest road I've ever ridden (Sassia drove), and we did it twice, down from Cody and back up en route to Billings. It is 46 miles long, with a high elevation of 8,048 feet and connects to the equally beautiful and sometimes harrowing Beartooth Highway.

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No. 12 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 roa

No. 12 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip is about Cody, Wyoming, a place I love to visit but don't necessarily always feel welcome. I've been told, "You don't look like you're from around here." When we were reviewing our trip at the end, @sashhhhhhh10 said, "I could have done without the day and a half in Cody." How does Kanye live here???

We took on extra emotional baggage by visiting the Heart Mountain (nee, Relocation Center). Being Japanese American, it's painful for us to visit a place where our community was incarcerated during WWII.

No matter how you spin in, Heart Mountain was a prison camp.

On a positive note, @centerofthewest is my all-time favorite museum setting. I'd go to Cody for just the Whitney Western Art Museum, Draper Natural History Museum or Plains Indian Museum. But you get those three PLUS the Buffalo Bill Museum and (meh) Cody Firearms Museum.

PLUS it was a thrill to see "Eight Seconds: Black Cowboys in America" by @eightsecs Wow! However ... I didn't like that it was in the "basement" and I didn't like that we were virtually the only ones in there. (White) people would stick their heads in or wander through the entrance but made no bones about not intending to be there. Honestly, I hope the show comes to the @tacomaartmuseum, which has excellent western art.

The last image is "Tonto's Dream" by David Bradley, a Minnesota Chippewa artist. I have LOVED this piece since the first moment I set eyes on it.

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No. 11 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 roa

No. 11 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip is essentially a visual love letter to my happy place, @grandtetonnps

We were lucky to have snared a room at Jackson Lake Lodge with such a transfixing view of the Tetons and Jackson Lake. It was the perfect respite from the maddening crowds and bear jams -- and take a break from all the driving.

I posted a pano of the scene at sunset where these posts are archived at:

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Later in this gallery are images from the top of Signal Mountain, where I'd never have been able to drive just a few years ago, and the Chapel of Transfiguration, where I'd never been despite of so many visits to the park.

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Precious (and foxy) creatures is the theme of post

Precious (and foxy) creatures is the theme of post No. 10 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip. @grandtetonnps is not part of the Nez Perce Trail, but it is my happy place and Sassia and I were so close. Plus we know some great people there!

Remember: swipe for all the images!

We stayed with our good friend @drsheilaapproved and took one of my favorite hikes -- to Taggart and Bradley Lakes. We went to Taggart twice because the Tetons are in your face en route. I met Sheila at an event in Jackson where we were the only non-white people.

We also got to spend time with the great Dr. @ashley_e_reis, super cool and one of the greatest DEI allies I know. As she says, Dornan's is the only parking lot in the world where you can talk a decent selfie. Is she right, or is she right?

Sassia and I kept talking about the amazing visit we had with Chip Jenkins -- although we forgot to take a pic in his drop-dead gorgeous office. @chpjenkins is a huge DEI advocate in the @nationalparkservice and I'm proud that he's the superintendent at @grandtetonnps

We stayed a couple nights at Jackson Lake Lodge (more tomorrow), where a prairie dog was one of our visitors.

The Sandhill crane is one of my favorite birds, and this is my first sighting at Grand Teton. Did you know that Sandhill crane babies are called colts?

After a stop along Mormon Row, we encountered a pronghorn, which is the fastest mammal in North America and NOT an antelope, thank you very much.

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Da Bears remain the stars of post No. 9 in a serie

Da Bears remain the stars of post No. 9 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip. The first is probably my favorite bear shot of the trip. It also induces the most guilt. It looks like I'm up a tree, but I shot through a tree, in a situation that forced creativity.

-swipe-This frenzied crowd at @grandtetonnps is what forced the creativity. Mind you, this is in MAY. I parked half a mile away and walked back. I felt uncomfortable the whole time. This wasn't the first mess Sassia and I encountered.

-swipe-We'd already been talking about feeling empathy with the bears. As Asian Americans during #StopAsianHate, we'd been stared at plenty, too. Yesterday's Mom and COYs was distasteful at the end, when more people had arrived.

-swipe-These grizzlies are a couple. Imagine if hundreds of people showed up to one of your dates.

-swipe-Yes, we got a peek at world famous Grizzly 399 and her quadruplets. And, yes, we weren't that close. And it was OK.

-swipe-We spent a few hours early one morning, waiting at a spot where 399 frequents. She didn't show, but we were with nature -- and each other. That was more than enough.

-swipe-This is a crowd at a 399 sighting. Since then, two grizzly sub-adults have been euthanized and another (and her cubs) are being hazed. They are too habituated to humans. People ruin everything!

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No. 8 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road

No. 8 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip remains on bears. This was a magical sighting because there were just four of us for the longest time. As you'll see tomorrow, the magic did not last.

We were close in @yellowstonenps but separated by Soda Butte Creek, and were able to watch the cubs frolic.

We were far enough away that the mama bear felt comfortable enough to nurse her cubs.

More people accumulated, and soon a ranger also appeared. The sow staged her cubs to cross the road and many people did not make way. She seemed agitated. But they made it, and were gone up the hillside.

We got caught behind a gigantically long bison jam near the Norris Geyser Basin. Cars were stalled for miles. But we made it into Jackson.

In Jackson, we spent time at one of my favorite museums, the National Museum of Wildlife Art. "The Surprise," by Phillip R. Goodwin, shows a rather benign scene of bear watching that we wouldn't see duplicated at Grand Teton.

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Whose independence? Whose freedom? I kept asking

Whose independence?

Whose freedom?

I kept asking during my 16-day, #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip with @sashhhhhhh10 . And I continue to ask today of all days -- #independenceday

We were re-tracing a heroic Native American event, yet we found scant Indigenous presence -- except in the five battlefields and three reservations we visited.

Places of dispossession and exile.

In the still of snowfall, we heard voices in the flow of the Big Hole River, near a place where so many innocent Nez Perce lives were claimed in 1877.

We felt the spirits in the prayer cloths at @little_bighorn_battlefield a place otherwise mostly dressed up to mourn white loss. Events here in 1876 influenced pursuit of non-treaty Nez Perce the next year.

The cries of the Killdeer at the last battlefield, Bear Paw, sounded eerily human. The Nez Perce flight ended here. But not their plight.

This country was birthed on stolen land and stolen labor. So whose independence are we celebrating?

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A tender moment between mother and kit for this st

A tender moment between mother and kit for this star-spangled, #FoxyFriday 🦊

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For entry No. 7 in a series about my #NezPerceTrai

For entry No. 7 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip, I give you a black bear sow and two cubs. This easily was our favorite sighting of the whole trip. The cubs are super cute. Make sure you watch the video by @sashhhhhhh10 that follows. I can't STOP watching it!

The day's first sighting was just the black bear, past Tower Junction, and we were one of the first on the scene. We watched it eat on a hillside for quite a while. I think it's the Mom with the cubs, don't you? Maybe it was nap time for the youngsters.

The bighorn sheep pictured are in the same place, day to day, year to year. I can't say where because I don't know what it's called. I know it when I get there!

In between sightings, we retreated to Mammoth Hot Springs and walked around. It was also a good excuse to grab some Moose Tracks ice cream. The other day, a grizzly chased elk there. That wasn't this day, however.

Because bison are the most prevalent wildlife in @yellowstonenps, the red dogs are the most viewable babies in the park. And so are the bison jams, as witnessed by the videos in this report. That doesn't make seeing them any less thrilling! We watched this herd for a little bit, and one little doggie seemed to be checking on its siblings and future bison buddies.

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This is No. 6 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2

This is No. 6 in a series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip -- and I promise there are plenty of wildlife images to come. Sassia and I clearly made it to Yellowstone in the spring, when the babies take center stage. But we had issues.

But first, waking up at the Old Faithful Snow Lodge allowed us to beat the crowds for the second straight day at our favorite Yellowstone stop, Grand Prismatic. Again, it was too cold and steamy for much visibility, so we set off for our next destination, Gardiner.

A very cute room awaited us, but the park roads were closed by the snow. So we went around the park, through Big Sky and Bozeman. It was a beautiful drive, but it ate up the day -- because, once in Bozeman, we had car troubles. We swapped to our giant SUV at the airport.

And then ... Follow Yer Nose now has a Gardiner location. During our 2019 road trip with Florangela's mom and aunt (and Santana Banana), we hit the Emigrant location and it was heavenly! I've been waiting to replace the Carolina sauce.

So we decided not to venture all the way into Lamar Valley that evening. We had our first (black) bear sighting, then were fairly close to the birthing of a bison calf. The calves are referred to as red dogs, I think, for obvious reasons.

You'll see in the coming days that we had some amazing wildlife sightings. This day was just a little off, which is why this post is more of a travelogue.

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Old Faithful was a big part of this day, but I’l

Old Faithful was a big part of this day, but I’ll admit: I’m using it to lead post No. 5 about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip to gain attention for a cultural rant, of sorts, which may help understand the history.

Like the Nez Perce, @ankuwellness and I arrived at the Madison River in the park, through West Yellowstone. The Nez Perce arrived in August, so there wasn’t snow like there was for us. Inside the park, their younger warriors captured a party of tourists, killing two. This happened against the wishes of the elders, but the young Nez Perce had their reasons.

The Euro settlers and US government used Manifest Destiny ideals and mechanisms like the Homestead Act to “claim” traditional lands of our Indigenous peoples. It would be like someone seizing your backyard as their own — sanctioned by a government that doesn’t represent you. These and other escalating actions were provocative.

A string of clashes, broken treaties and broken promises caused a growing distrust (and hatred) of American whites. Mix that with propaganda later advanced by officials at parks like Yellowstone that claimed the absence of previous Indigenous occupancy. In the case of Yellowstone, it was said that Native Americans feared the geothermal features.

Truth is, there are 27 tribes with ties to Yellowstone. The Tukudeka band of Shoshone, or “Sheepeaters,” were full-time residents of Yellowstone. The Nez Perce are acknowledged in the park with Nez Perce Creek (fork of Firehole River), Nez Perce Ford (of the Yellowstone River) and Joseph Peak, for Chief Joseph, in the Gallatins.

Sassia and I got a taste of white entitlement at Old Faithful, where we were able to stay the night. While waiting for the eruption nearest sunset, we heard plenty of complaints that the geyser wasn’t going off when “scheduled,” as if a ranger opened a valve on the clock.

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This is a photo from Part 4 of my #NezPerceTrail20

This is a photo from Part 4 of my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip series, showing the Camas Meadows Battlefield, en route to @yellowstonenps The auto-crop by Insta didn’t turn out well and it (the history) deserves a full treatment.
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This is No. 4 in a multi-part series about my #Nez

This is No. 4 in a multi-part series about my #NezPerceTrail2021 road trip. I thought the bison-in-snow image might be a welcomed sight, given that we almost cracked 110 degrees in Seattle. Both the snow and the bison were constant companions during our journey.

In 1877, leadership of the Nez Perce contingent passed from Looking Glass to Lean Elk. Known by the whites as Poker Joe, he favored a quicker tempo. Like them, we pressed hard south, through the first of three snowstorms that day. We also experienced Montana's famed straight-for-days, desolate roadways and actually went 90 minutes without spying a man-made structure! From a #StopAsianHate perspective, this was unsettling.

The skirmish at Camas Meadows, en route to Yellowstone, yielded the Nez Perce most of Gen. Howard's pack mules. We drove some 48 miles on an unpaved road during the second snow -- no other humans in sight -- to reach this battleground. From there, we went to Henry's Lake, the weather way too inhospitable for photos.

The bison had a strong presence in our trip because it also loomed large in this history. The Nez Perce were trying to reach traditional hunting grounds and the U.S. tried to exterminate this animal to cripple Native Americans. Yellowstone has been critical in keeping our national mammal wild and healthy.

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THE Doug Walker I Knew

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Nelson Wins Rare Triple

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