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Jared Dahl Aldern

@jdaldern.bsky.social
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Fire practitioner, historian, co-editor of *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* (2026, Oregon State University Press)

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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Loving the rhythm of this walking song youtu.be/-K8Zlu76-W8?...
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Walking to Louisiana
YouTube video by Clifton Chenier - Topic
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Lewis and Rachel Corrie: “Warriors of Love,” by Iris Dement youtu.be/1DgUxBaTB4Y?...
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Warriors Of Love
YouTube video by Iris DeMent - Topic
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I enjoyed talking with @chefstentor.bsky.social and Theresa Gregor about Landkeeping @osupress.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/landkeeping
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Jared D Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor, "Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships" (OSU Press, 2026) - New Books Network
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Intertribal Timber Council @intertribal-tc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What would the next 50 years look like for Tribal forestry? 🌲 More funding. More agency over the land. More resources to steward it. What do you want to see happen in 50 years? Tell us below 👇 #ITC50 #TribalForestry
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All wildfires are alike; each good fire is good in its own way.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Why do we not want a wall? Because we are not afraid of who is on the other side. It’s us. It’s our people. It pains me when they try to divide us.” www.hcn.org/articles/toh...
hcn.org
Tohono O'odham fight border wall on sacred, sovereign lands - High Country News
Tohono O’odham Nation fights Southern Arizona border wall construction near Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and on its reservation.
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Mvskoke_Neb @mvskoke-neb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wildfire season starts sooner every year, Landkeeping co-author Theresa Lynn Gregor says tribes are still fighting to be recognized as partners in fire management, not bystanders. Tribal teachings can play an important part of land management and fire prevention. youtube.com/shorts/dLpb-...
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Native American Tribes talk wildfire season
YouTube video by Indian Country Today
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, and the way to do this is to live on the land, work it daily, & make friends with all the other residents — wild animals, invasive plants, everyone: “we have to get rid of all that extra fuel, and once a semblance of balance is restored, make friends with natural, lower-severity ground fires…”
grist.org
America is losing its war against wildfire
Wildland firefighting is increasingly facing an intractable reality: We’re stuck in a vicious cycle. A doom loop.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“ONE OF THE FEW THINGS all of the Bashmanians are agreed about is fire, which we love, as we do all things in the fire family: the sun, all reds and yellows, California poppies and sunflowers…
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Just now ordered a copy of this book; looking forward to reading! lareviewofbooks.org/article/cali...
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Megafire and Other Hauntings | Los Angeles Review of Books
Climate disaster in the Colonial Anthropocene and returning ‘good fire’ to California.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Cultural burning curriculum in Australia www.abc.net.au/btn/high/cul...
abc.net.au
What Is Cultural Burning? - Behind The News
We find out why fire has been used to manage land for thousands of years.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sign it, @governor.ca.gov!
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“we can have both border security and tribal sovereignty. This is not that.” nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...
nativenewsonline.net
Gallego Slams DHS for ‘Sham’ Tribal Consultation Over Border Wall
Overview: U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) is criticizing the Department of Homeland Security for what he describes as inadequate tribal consultation with the Tohono O’odham Nation as the Trump administ...
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In New Zealand: “The former architects of the scheme ‘didn't think hard enough’ about the long-term dangers of encouraging vast new plantations of highly flammable, storm-prone pine.”
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This Douglas squirrel launched three potentially lethal 4-lb sugar pine cones from about the 100-ft level down onto our campsite yesterday morning. We took the hint and cooked breakfast at a neighboring, vacant site, surrounded only by fir and cedar trees.
Douglas squirrel pictured here pulling nuts out of a sugar pine cone. The squirrel is on the ground between two large conifers, the forest floor littered with pine needles.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
That’s me sitting at my campsite, reading a copy of *Speaking of Bears* by Rachel Mazur
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
grist.org/wildfires/fi...
grist.org
Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Good article: “Many different Nations developed specialised cultural-burn traditions that reflected what they understood about the land they lived on…this diversification is a challenge for non-Indigenous people, because of the desire to standardize responses and apply them the same way everywhere.”
aptnnews.ca
Ottawa ignores Indigenous knowledge about wildfires: fire scientist
Métis fire scientist Amy Cardinal Christianson argues Indigenous communities are prevented from applying their knowledge of fire management.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
There’s some fire and smoke in this song by Sunny War youtu.be/AxbVEH9SytU?...
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Got No Ride
YouTube video by Sunny War - Topic
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Sign the Petition
Stop the Closure of the National Archives in Chicago and San Francisco!
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“The 30,000-square-foot facility is being designed as a centralized hub for emergency response. Once completed, it will store water, food and clothing and coordinate with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support both Tribal and non-Tribal communities during natural disasters.”
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This reads like a spy thriller. When they make it into a movie, maybe the script can focus on a little network of heroic hoarders, saving rare books by intercepting them in transit & ferreting them away in cold, dry, secret chambers, immune to the energy apocalypse to come. Call it The Biblio Files.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In New South Wales: "Resilience is built not only through equipment and infrastructure but through Culture, connection, and community.” nit.com.au/17-08-2026/2...
nit.com.au
Fire truck handover empowers community, protects Country
The NSW Rural Fire Service has gifted a fire truck to the Muli Muli community, equipping the community to better protect itself for generations to come.Recently celebrated on Githabul Country in North...
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Cam Walker @camwalker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is how you report on fires: 'The sheer number & scale of wildfires this year, which experts attribute in part to climate change caused by burning fossil fuels, mean increased risk for firefighting personnel.' tucson.com/news/nation-...
tucson.com
In record wildfire season, firefighter entrapments hit 20-year high
Seven active and retired firefighters cited concerns over a Trump administration policy and the effects of U.S. Forest Service staffing cuts.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
One of the ways Ron Goode‘s methods can increase the availability of acorns for wildlife and cultural use: “cultural burning may help to prevent outbreaks of acorn-feeding insects not only directly by killing them with heat, but also indirectly by having only minor effects on the soil nematodes.”
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"We are not just burning; it allows us to connect with Country and release stress with our self and emotionally detach from other things that are going on in our world." nit.com.au/11-08-2026/2...
nit.com.au
‘Burning along our songlines’: Collaborative demonstration burn strengthens culture
An Aboriginal corporation has partnered with the largest holiday park group in New South Wales to conduct a demonstration cultural burn at Scotts Head on the state's Mid North Coast.The partnership be...
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Scale for us in this project is about breaking down barriers so that Cultural Fire can thrive everywhere.We hope to prove what we know - that it reduces fire risk and the associated economic benefit of that." nit.com.au/12-08-2026/2...
nit.com.au
Living Knowledge Network launches Initiative to scale cultural burning and build disaster resilience
As Australia prepares for another bushfire season, Living Knowledge Network (formerly Firesticks) is launching a first of its kind initiative to scale Indigenous-led Cultural Burning and Traditional L...
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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lightning causes many of the fires we are seeing now, and extreme weather brought on by man-made climate change have made them explosive. Ishkode – fire – has a spirit. She is talking to us. And she is angry. Tanya Talaga Gift: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2a2c65f...
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Canada is not working together to confront the wildfire crisis
A public inquiry into forest fires is needed to understand how our governments can deal with such disasters moving ahead – particularly for Indigenous communities on the front lines
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Rachel Parsons @racheldparsons.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Interesting Thread of the Day.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Listening again, appreciating musical and lyrical complexities, the contrast of the interrogator’s memories of sport-fishing up north with the “Indian’s” subsistence fishing down south, the overall metaphor of taking the bait, the interrogatee’s refusal. He’ll be OK, they’re waiting for him at home.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Questions sparked by this story: 1) Could Rx & cultural burns reduce emissions and increase sequestration in the southern Sierra, or do they only flatten emissions peaks & troughs, w/ no added C storage? 2) Could Tribal burning initiatives generate revenue from the California cap-and-trade program?
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Firing up carbon credits through cultural burning - The Australian Museum Blog
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fishing, by Richard Shindell. A song about the interrogation of an immigrant. It’s mostly the interrogator speaking but the interrogatee speaks at the end. youtube.com/watch?v=NNWm...
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Fishing
YouTube video by Richard Shindell - Topic
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This burn announcement includes a bulleted list of recommended actions for the public to take during the burn. I’m thinking it would be good for us fire practitioners to include such a list in the public information releases for our prescribed and cultural burns over here in the southern Sierra.
miragenews.com
Culturally Informed Cool Burn Set for Hillsborough
Bindelong Aboriginal Corporation is planning to conduct a prescribed culturally informed cool burn in Hillsborough from Tuesday 4 to Wednesday 5
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
BC's future wildfire strategies may look like this. @nichecanada.bsky.social The 2018 Abbott and Chapman report, and BC's follow-up action plan, seemed to be heading this way www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/p...
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
High tech and high TEK: Remote sensing maps fuel moisture content across the landscape, and then Indigenous observation of vegetation color, scent, canopy cover, soil moisture, etc. confirms good locations for cultural burns. www.aol.com/articles/aus...
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How Australia combines modern tech and Indigenous knowledge to fight wildfires - AOL
As Europe faces its worst wildfires in decades, Australia offers lessons in disaster preparedness.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“We paid attention to what’s happening on the land, and we could see a change in the area we burned,” said Wynne. “We were going through a drought and experienced a heat dome, but the area we burned stayed green longer. Different plants began to grow there."
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Healing with Fire: The Spokane Tribal Network’s Journey to Restore Cultural Burns and Native Foods | U.S. Department of the Interior
The Spokane Tribal Network is working to demonstrate the Spokane Tribe’s practice of cultural burns to nurture a healthy environment and improve the Tribe’s food sovereignty.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is a good article with @jennifergrenz.bsky.social explaining how Indigenous stewardship restores healthy land for everyone, even on land already suffering severe damage caused by burning fossil fuels (high temps, shallow snowpacks, drought, dry soil, erratic rain, intense wildfires, etc.).
thepointer.com
‘Wildfires are now a crisis’: Indigenous communities knew how to care for the land; then the rest of us arrived
‘Wildfires are now a crisis’: Indigenous communities knew how to care for the land; then the rest of us arrived.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“Fire unquestionably commands respect and understanding. But relating to it, perhaps seeing it as a living force in need of cultivation—a need mutual to people and elements— offers a robust ecological counterpoint to fire suppression and one worth investigating in Black life.”
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Fire Suppression, the Carceral State, and Black Ecological Knowledge - AAIHS
As I write, major wildfires burn in the state of California. A mixture of droughts, human-altered landscapes, dense vegetation, and development have resulted in over 4.1 million acres burned this year...
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"We need to start looking at this much larger and much more holistically from a landscape perspective and recognizing that vegetation will grow back." www.cbc.ca/news/climate...
cbc.ca
What Canadian communities can do to reduce wildfire risk | CBC
While U.S. President Donald Trump calls out Canadian wildfire management, communities across the country are seeking to mitigate the impacts of fires. Experts say not every fire can be stopped, but Fi...
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
How is this going to get done? Where is the money going to come from? “The [reforestation] strategy calls for streamlining planning, prioritizing projects tackling critical human safety concerns and ecosystem issues like water supply, and increasing the supply of seeds, seedlings and workers…”
calmatters.org
California is losing its forests faster than it can replant them — and no one has enough seeds, staff, or money to catch up
California needs to ramp up reforestation to keep pace with wildfires — instead, funding and staff keep shrinking.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Please pay close attention to what Elizabeth Washoe has to say in this article. “Like many in California, Washoe’s people still pay homage to grizzlies through ceremonial bear dances, but she said it’s not ‘ethically right to bring them back.’” www.kqed.org/news/1209254...
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They’re on Our Flag, but Do Long-Gone Grizzly Bears Belong in Modern California? | KQED
Democrats are advancing a bill over objections from rural residents, ranchers and Republicans that would study whether California should bring back grizzly bears.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
An example for Europe to follow: look "at the bigger picture — restoring wetlands to make an ecosystem more resilient in the face of fires, or reintroducing native species... "'A healthy landscape […] can more easily adapt to these fire events that we're seeing,' said @amycardinal.bsky.social"
dw.com
Fighting wildfires is getting harder — these tips could help
With Spain declaring a national emergency, France seeking EU assistance and Canada dealing with more than 900 hot spots, wildfires are out of control. How can we stop our forests from burning out of c...
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
To me, this song by Julian Taylor is about both what we inherit from our ancestors in the deep past and also what we leave for our descendants in the far future. youtube.com/watch?v=6Zni...
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Julian Taylor Long Time Ago [Lyric Video]
YouTube video by Julian Taylor
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Burning by color: "As soon as those [plants] start to brown off, they're actually telling us they need fire… We want to see that nice black ash in there — if we've got all white ash, that's usually telling us there was too much fuel in there and it burnt too hot…”
abc.net.au
After buying 134 'remarkable' hectares, Paul Davis wanted to protect them
Paul Davis has made it his mission to conserve his ecologically significant property, and he's bringing together a diverse group of people to help him do it.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
In Australia: “By bridging the gap between western hazard reduction and cultural burning, the program allowed women to protect cultural heritage while fostering deep personal healing and lifelong professional networks rooted in shared lived experiences.” www.monash.edu/news/article...
monash.edu
First Nations women in fire: a vital opportunity to boost the workforce and increase community safety
A new report reveals supporting First Nations women in fire management is critical for protecting Australian communities from escalating climate disasters.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Bianca says, "I see parallels in human experience, specifically the necessity of releasing what is no longer sustainable and tending to emotional overgrowth before it ignites into catastrophe."
fox13now.com
An upcoming art exhibit draws from the indigenous practice of cultural fire
Bianca Velaquez is a Salt Lake City-based beadwork and multidisciplinary artist with an upcoming exhibit, "Prescribed Burn".
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I get why climate deniers don’t want to hear it, but why is it so hard for climate hawks to accept what Colleen Reid is saying here? The world is warming so fuels are drier, *and* fire suppression has led to a buildup of those now highly flammable fuels. Let’s reduce emissions *and* tend the forest.
npr.org
Link between raging wildfires and climate change is greater than ever
Human-caused climate change is driving many of the wildfires burning across Canada. What's harder to say is how much worse the planet is because of warming global temperatures.
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"For Tribal Nations, nothing exists in pieces. Water, land, ancestors, culture, language, treaty rights, and future generations are inseparable. Yet our governments continue to evaluate them as though they can be compartmentalized." nativenewsonline.net/opinion/a-tr...
nativenewsonline.net
A Trail of Broken Promises: The Farce that is Tribal Consultation
Guest Opinion I have spent the last decade fighting Line 5 and the proposed Great Lakes Tunnel Project. In that time, I have sat across the table from nearly every state and federal agency that has au...
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kimberly grace @grace8ming.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"It’s an irony lost on no one that the same policies that disconnected tribal members from their history also enabled the fires that then allowed them to rediscover it." (I opened the article in my browser & used "reader view" to get past the paywall...)
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Jared Dahl Aldern @jdaldern.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Not sure if there’s a way around the paywall here, but I will say that similar things are happening in the southern Sierra Nevada. Wildfires are transforming people‘s understanding of cultural history. Agencies and NGOs are slowly adapting to how Tribes want to drive post-fire restoration plans.
latimes.com
After wildfires destroyed 95% of this California tribe's forests, members uncovered 1,200 ancestral sites
After devastating fires turned their forest into a moonscape, members of the Konkow Valley Band of Maidu found evidence of their vibrant tribal history everywhere.
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