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Fighting Fire With Fire: The Practice of Cultural Burning in Native American Communities

4,888 views · Published 20 August 2018 · 3:16 · Indexed 27 October 2026

Channel: UC Davis · 2018 · Education

Ron Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe, led UC Davis Professor Beth Rose Middleton Manning's students through a cultural burn. Students participated in preparing the land and igniting the fire and contributed to a historic indigenous tradition. Cultural burning practices empower Native American communities and could possibly be used a tool to help alleviate devastating wildfires.

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Read More on Cultural Burning: https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/rethinking-wildfire
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Video Description: Streaks of orange and gray fill the screen, as a fire burns through twigs and leaves.  A group of people stoke the flames so that a tree is engulfed in smoke.  Beth Manning informs the audience that cultural burning is a “land stewardship tool employed by indigenous people,” explaining that Ron Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Folk Mono Tribe, imparted his knowledge of this method by leading UC Davis students through a cultural burn.  Goode explains the benefits of this procedure, and declares that fire suppression actually sparks fire.  UC Davis Ph.D student Christopher Adlam outlines the history of cultural burning, as individuals feed the smoking branches and Goode makes a beat with a wooden clapper.  The video closes off with a picture of the cultural burning site 5 months after the burning.  The trees and shrubs are green with rebirth in the golden light of the sun.

Fighting Fire With Fire: The Practice of Cultural Burning in Native American Communities

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