“What is so powerful about the tree rings is that through boarding schools, through reservations, there were attempts to remove people from the land and places that carried their knowledge,” he told me. Yet the trees contain “irrefutable evidence of their connection to land and stewardship.”
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How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived.