cultural fire Learning
This page provides several resources for those in the wildland fire community who wish to learn more about cultural fire and how to develop respectful and equitable relationships with Indigenous fire practitioners, researchers, and tribal communities.
Trainings and Working Groups
Indian Country 101: An Online Tribal Engagement Training Series Built with Natural Resource Practitioners in Mind
This free, self-paced tribal engagement training launched was by The Nature Conservancy to assist non-tribal organizations in moving towards right relations with tribal partners. The training has two courses: 101 lays out the history and context for tribal engagement across the country, while course 102 builds upon the fundamentals, focusing specifically on tribes located in Washington State. Click here to access the training.
Recorded Presentations from AFE Events
Indigenous Erasure in Fire Ecology, presented by Amy Cardinal Christianson, Frank K. Lake, Monique Wynecoop at the 2023 Fire Congress
Putting Cultural Fire Back on the Land, presented by The Honorable Ron W. Goode, North Fork Mono Tribe at the 2023 Fire Congress
Indigenous and Local Ecological Knowledge, panel at the 2022 Fire Across Boundaries Conference
Advances and Challenges for Indigenous Fire Stewardship (Session 1, Session 2, and Fire Circle Discussion), presented by multiple speakers online at the 2021 Fire Congress
Podcasts
Articles, Books, and Chapters
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The Importance of Indigenous Cultural Burning in Forested Regions of the Pacific West, USA
It’s Taken Thousands of Years, But Western Science is Finally Catching Up to Traditional Knowledge
Returning Fire to the Land: Indigenous Knowledge and Fire
Integration of Traditional and Western Knowledge in Forest Landscape Restoration
Centering Indigenous Voices: The Role of Fire in the Boreal Forest of North America
The Politics of Fire and the Social Impacts of Fire Exclusion on the Klamath
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Fire Country: How Indigenous Fire Management Could Help Save Australia
Forgotten fires: Native Americans and the transient wilderness
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY)
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
Report outlines a new approach to forest stewardship–one that “braids together” Indigenous knowledge and Western science to conserve and restore more resilient forestlands