Cultural Fire: Native Land Management and Regeneration with Elizabeth Azzuz
Native peoples have used the tool of fire as medicine. Fire was understood to be a spirit, a healer and sacred in its own right. Traditional Native controlled burning, called cultural fire, utilizes ancient agro-forestry practices, technology developed through time by the Karuk tribe and Indigenous Peoples around the world. Elizabeth Azzuz, Secretary of Cultural Fire Management Council, discusses in this interview from 2020 her work using Traditional Native Karuk methods of prescribed burning to protect forests, heal degraded ecosystems, and reestablish forest-grown food, medicine, and…
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