This rancher believes her land was stolen from Native Americans. She’s making amends

Beth Robinette doesn’t care what the good ’ol boys at the local coffee shop say about her.

“In cowboy boots, I'm 6 feet tall, and I'm covered in tattoos,” she says. “I got hairy armpits. And my husband cross-dresses as a lady on the weekends. I'm so beyond giving a shit.”

Robinette owns and runs the Lazy R Ranch about half an hour outside of Spokane, Washington.

The ranch has been in her family since the 1930s. Her great-grandfather ran a dairy farm here, which her grandfather and father switched to a beef operation. Beth returned to the ranch 10 years ago after finishing college, and she’s been learning about the landscape ever since — the plants, the seasonal patterns, the soil.

She has also learned about the history of this land, and the people from whom it was taken.