What if Indigenous women ran controlled burns?
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Photo caption: Participants Naomi Huddleston, Jesse Kidd and Ayuthea LaPier work together on an engine to hold the fire line and apply water as needed. Photo credit: Ren Brownell / Courtesy of Karuk Women’s TREX. Article by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster. High Country News – December 30, 2022.
It was Saturday, a hot one. In the remote mountains of Northern California, a group of mostly Indigenous women took a break from conducting prescribed burns. Some sat on mats in the early October shade, pounding woodwardia fern, splitting maidenhair ferns and weaving the stems into baskets, while others […]