Indigenous Fire Practices and Their Benefits 🔥

For thousands of years, indigenous people across the Americas burned the land around them. This enabled them to thrive and to keep the land as safe and productive as possible. Explore how and why indigenous peoples burned!

Special thanks to Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson for her assistance. You can listen to her podcast Good Fire at:
https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast

Also, special thanks to Samuel Love at /@SamuelLove for the use of his footage.

Additional thanks to Andrew at /@AtunSheiFilms and Soma at /@SomasAcademy for voice over!

Chapters:

Introduction: 0:00
Disclaimers and Sources: 1:50
Fire Ecology 101: 6:28
Fire for Farming: 11:44
Fire for Foraging: 17:48
Fire for Hunting: 23:15
Fire for War: 27:09
Fire for Culture: 28:27
How?: 32:15
Fire Suppression: 34:53
Recovery: 44:23

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Sources and Bibliography:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZqfO0simdUJ75ZoUoEfmH2oxPHZ3EzqvTLs4be1mofc/edit?usp=sharing