Wildfires spark demand for Indigenous fire stewardship | The-14
As wildfires worsen, Indigenous Guardians call for fire sovereignty & year-round support to lead prevention, protection & cultural burning on their territories.
The reemergence of cultural burning in southeastern Australia
"Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back
Indigenous-led cultural burning program in critically endangered woodlands in New South Wales."
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https://theconversation.com/colonisation-cleared-95-of-these-woodlands-indigenous-cultural-burning-is-bringing-it-back-257883
#CulturalBurning #IndigenousFireStewardship #First Nations #culture #heritage #ecosystems #biodiversity #conservation #fire
Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back
New research shows how Western science can support cultural burning to deliver benefits across cultures – as well as for nature.
"By criminalizing fire, Spanish authorities effectively criminalized forms of #IndigenousKnowledge—like the cultivation of certain plants and management of #ecosystems—that relied on #controlledBurning. This put #Indigenous people in an impossible situation. Those who persisted with burning risked arrest and forced labor."
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/02/15/smoke-heat-flame/
https://archive.ph/VQM8R
#IndigenousFireStewardship #TraditionalKnowledge #NativeAmericans #CaliforniaFires #CaliforniaWildfires #FireEcology #ecocide
Smoke, Heat, Flame | Jordan Thomas
On January 7, as eighty-to-ninety-mile-per-hour winds approached Los Angeles, Emilio Sweet-Coll was visiting his family in Mexico City. His phone pinged
Climate Resilience through Ecocultural Stewardship: The 2024 Fires and California Indigenous Peoples
As of September 10th, 2024 (Tuesdays), estimates are that the 2024 fires have burned 2,247,356 acres with seventy-one (71) large active fires presently active across Turtle Island (the United States)
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