Cultural burning: using fire to protect from fire and revive Country
Did you know that Indigenous Australians have been using fire to care for the land for tens of thousands of years? Evidence ...
Indigenous communities in B.C. and California promote cultural burns for disaster mitigation
Indigenous peoples from B.C. and California reflect on the L.A. fires and how their knowledge could have been helped.
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Indigenous people learned to live with fire. What can we learn from their traditions?
Many Tribes have shown that cultural, intentional fire can restore forests and actually heal the land. What would going back ...
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‘It’s a tool, it’s an ally’: Why an Indigenous-led burning group wants to change California’s relationship to fire
The Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance, or TERA, is a Lake County-based group dedicated to changing attitudes around intentional ...
Tree rings and fire scars show fewer forest fires burn in North America today than in the past
Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...
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California’s Property Insurance Market | Indigenous-Led Burning Group TERA | Evolutionary Science Behind Attraction
How insurers are responding to California’s challenging property insurance market. Also, the Indigenous-led cultural burning group TERA. Finally, a researcher studies the evolutionary science of ...
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The Tongva’s land burned in Eaton fire. But leaders say traditional practices mitigated damage
The fire that broke out in the hills near ... “When we think about Indigenous-led approaches, such as cultural burning or other Indigenous stewardship, it does help with mitigating and building ...
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In northern California, the Karuk Tribe is burning its way back to a centuries-old relationship with fire
The Karuk of Northern California are one of many Native peoples with a long tradition of burning their ancestral lands. These ...
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The US Could Learn From First Nations Firefighters
In each case, a landscape transformed through thousands of years of Indigenous fire agriculture has proven deadly to a modern society more averse to burning vegetation.
Indigenous rock art threatened as bushfires rage on
Fire crews are racing to protect Victoria's richest concentration of Indigenous rock art, as they tackle out-of-control ...
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INDIGENOUS A&E: Art from fire, film stars, art ID
“At this critical moment, Fire Kinship offers timely insights into Indigenous fire stewardship, ecological resilience, and climate change. Developed over several years, the exhibition ...
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Indigenous communities in B.C. and California promote cultural burns for disaster mitigation
In the heat of the L.A. fires, Jeremiah Louis is reminded of 2021 when fire surrounded the Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB), his home community. "In the beginning, I was feeling helpless," he said.