As we look for new ways to confront environmental challenges, we also need to look to old ways, including those of indigenous communities.
Ron Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, led 嘿嘿视频 students through a cultural burn this past February. Students in Professor Beth Rose Middleton Manning鈥檚 class helped prepare the land and ignite the fire, contributing to a historic indigenous tradition. Cultural burning practices empower Native American communities, and could be a tool to help alleviate devastating wildfires.
鈥淚鈥檓 not out here to destroy 鈥 I鈥檓 out here to restore and make new life,鈥 Goode said.
Sinead Santich is a Bay Area filmmaker and a recent 嘿嘿视频 graduate, where she studied filmmaking and environmental restoration.
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is an environmental science writer and media relations specialist at 嘿嘿视频. She鈥檚 the editor of the 鈥淲hat Can I Do About Climate Change?鈥 blog.