1/several: Come hear about #ClimateJustice and Cultural Burning in Napa and beyond, this Monday April 1 on Zoom, from 6 - 7 pm Pacific! Our speaker is Charlie Toledo (Towa), Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council in Napa. She'll speak to questions like, How has colonialism's outlawing of cultural burns contributed to the climate crisis? What can settler climate activists do to support Indigenous cultural burners, here and abroad? https://www.climaterealitybayarea.org/chapter-events/2024/04/01/cultural-burning-and-climate-resilience
Cultural Burning and Climate Resilience in Napa and Beyond — Climate Reality Bay Area

Charlie Toledo (Towa), Executive Director of Suscol Intertribal Council in Napa, will share some Indigenous perspectives on fire season. This event is co-sponsored by Climate Reality Project Bay Area, the San Diego Chapter of the Climate Reality Project , and ClimateHope.us .

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2/several: If you want to check out our list of Cultural Burning suggested readings/watchings/listenings featuring Indigenous creators/authors, click here; also, u can sign up for tomorrow's zoom meeting (no need to have read all or any of them! I'm happy to meet u & be in solidarity)! My takeaway: #wildfire season is almost here, & looking at #fire as always bad (& a Manly Man occupation) is settler-centric. Fire has been, can be, & is good! #ClimateJustice https://www.climaterealitybayarea.org/chapter-events/indigenous-voices-reading-listening-circle-zl5nl-5ma83
Indigenous Voices Reading & Listening Circle: Cultural Burning and Climate Resilience in Napa and Beyond — Climate Reality Bay Area

This event is a continuation of the Monthly Indigenous Voices Reading and Listening Circle, facilitated by Climate Justice Co-Chair S. Louie (settler). If you’re interested in a low pressure, high connection way to hang out, learn, and reflect together about decolonization, rematriation, and how com

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3/several: Karuk Media, "Good Fire - Spring 2022" #CulturalBurning reduces fuel loads from decades of colonizer fire suppression policies, and outlawing of Indigenous ecosystem care practices https://vimeo.com/713954365
Good Fire - Spring 2022

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4/several: Pyrogeographer Don Hankins (Plains Miwok), "Reading The Landscape For Fire," Bay Nature: "The places I burn are places I have a relationship with or responsibility to. This is a difference that sets Indigenous burning apart from other burning practices; being able to return to the burned area to collect plant materials or hunt for mushrooms or wildlife is a reward of careful stewardship. It ensures accountability." https://baynature.org/article/reading-the-landscape-for-fire/
Reading the California Landscape for Fire - Bay Nature

In the beginning, fire burned the world. Don Hankins' Plains Miwok ancestors passed on this understanding of fire through generations, and he draws from it as a traditional cultural practitioner pyrogeographer when burning landscapes in California.

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5/several: Yurok Tribe, "Elizabeth Azzuz Talks About Cultural Fire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV5ZaIEdukI
Elizabeth Azzuz Talks About Cultural Fire

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6/several: USDA Forest Service research ecologist Frank Lake (Karuk, Yurok, Mexican American, and white): "Smoke on an inversion in topographically steep & rugged river valleys . . . reflects the sunlight which cools the air temperature, which then . . . also cools the river and benefits the fish. . . . Ethnographic information . . . back in the late 1800s for the Rogue River Indians in SW Oregon [says] they burned the hillsides to call the #salmon in.” https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast/2019/10/16/fxk6gvcl10gjnex2zu8jtdo6gbhgbt
Fire Ecology and Indigenous Knowledge with Frank Lake-YourForest

Wildfire management has long been the domain of colonial governments. Despite a rich history of living with, managing, and using fire as a tool since time immemorial, Indigenous people were not permitted to practice cultural fire and their knowledge was largely ignored. As a result, total fire suppr

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7/several: Good Fire podcast, Season 3 teaser: Amy Cardinal Christianson (Métis): "One elder... in her community, the men would always go out and burn. So I would say, "Seems like men are doing all the action with burning," and she'd be like, "Uh, who do you think is telling them where to go and what to do?" She said there, the grandmothers in the community, they decide, and they go out and tell the men and other folks where needs to be burned and what." https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast/2024/1/9/good-fire-season-3-teaser
Good Fire Season 3 Teaser-YourForest

Join Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff as they give a sneak peek at what to expect in Good Fire’s third season. Stories of Indigenous fire stewardship, cultural and social empowerment and environmental integrity

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8/10: #GoodFire #podcast, Fire and Carbon with Russell Myers Ross and William Nikolakis: Russell Myers Ross (Tsilhqot'in): "I took my daughter out . . . I think she was seven . . . A month later she was like 'When are we going back to burn?' Amy Christianson Cardinal (Métis): "Awesome. Like you guys said, that's about taking it out of the masculine field and really going back to where it's an everybody thing, elders, kids, women, men, all out there on our land." https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast/2022/3/13/season-2-episode-3
Fire and Carbon with Russell Myers Ross and William Nikolakis-YourForest

In this episode, Russell Myers Ross and William Nikolakis speak about the work of the Gathering Voices Society on revitalizing traditional fire management in Tsilhqot’in Territory and the potential around carbon offsets adapting Australia’s Indigenous land and fire management practices to the Canadi

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9/10: Intentional Fire podcast by the Karuk Tribe & the Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Episode 4, "Decolonizing Fire with Chook-Chook Hillman": [Settlers] have extracted everything from this place, kept all the wealth. . . . No. We need all those resources, full support . . . It's way more than 'Let [Indigenous people] clean up the complete destruction of our ecosystem.'" #ClimateJustice https://www.swcasc.arizona.edu/podcasts-webinars
Podcasts & Webinars | Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center | SW CASC

10/10 #Bioneers interview with Frank Lake: "The first law enacted in Alta, California, was by a mission to prevent the natives from burning. They took away that energetically efficient tool to manage the resources as a way to subjugate [us and make] American settlement of the West successful. . . . [Cultural Burning means] Your landscape is then really linked to fire as your pharmacy, your supermarket, your hardware store, & for some sacred places, your church." #wildfire https://bioneers.org/frank-lake-indigenous-traditional-ecological-knowledge-zmaz2008/
Frank Kanawha Lake: Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge Can Save Our Ecosystems - Bioneers

Frank Kanawha Lake, an Indigenous research ecologist, discusses how traditional ecological knowledge about fire and watershed ecology can guide government agencies toward more regenerative land stewardship practices.

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