https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga en-us 2022-10-18 03:05:56 UTC 2025-11-09 19:55:50 UTC hello@padlet.com dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352577723 As climate change so dramatically impacts tribes, many reservations have already put forward legislation to mitigate the effects of the dramatic shifts in temperature. The Black Feet "Recognizing the threats posed by climate change, indigenous communities are adapting, and many are leading the way in adapting to climate change and building resilience." ]]> 2022-10-23 20:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352577723 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352582402 Governor Newsom’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force announced they would be working with some tribes in the state to reintroduce cultural practices of purposefully setting low-intensity fires. This plan emerged through the “Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire” legislation that is incorporating Native Americans into policy and climate preservation action.]]> 2022-10-23 20:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352582402 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352586439 The Aaniiih and Nakoda peoples within the Little Rockies area are becoming more concerned about the increase in wildfires due to climate change as their area have specific plants and wildlife species that aren't found in other places. So to protect these organisms, the Fort Belknap Indian Community is already developing a comprehensive climate adaptation plan to prevent wildfires from dooming their home.]]> 2022-10-23 20:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352586439 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352587645 "This is the kind of land management O’Rourke grew up with on the Yurok reservation in the Klamath mountains of northern California. Now, lighting the forest on fire to save it – and his tribe’s culture along with it – has become his life’s work, as fire and fuels manager of the Yurok Cultural Fire Management Council. On this day, he’s working the drip torch alongside a few dozen cultural practitioners from tribes across the US, and firefighters from around the world."]]> 2022-10-23 20:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352587645 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352596108 Ron Goode from the North Fork Mono speaks about how his tribe has always known what the purpose of their burning has been for, yet once recently has the government recognized the benefits of doing so. Tribes have been burning thousands of acres for years as they understand how they are used to revive the land they deeply respect.]]> 2022-10-23 20:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352596108 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352597755 Native Americans have been cultivating the lands that settlers believed were untouched for centuries. Yosemite National Park was "routinely burned to clear underbrush, open pasture lands, provide nutrient-rich forage for deer, and to support the growth of woodland food crops to feed and sustain what was once a large and thriving Indigenous population."]]> 2022-10-23 20:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352597755 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352599649 For centuries, Native Americans have been starting smaller fires that can be controlled to open up land for agriculture, promote growth of certain plants, and prevent large scale wildfires. Not only do some tribes achieve spiritual fulfillment through these practices, but they also gaining agricultural and safety benefits from doing so.]]> 2022-10-23 20:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352599649 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352600909 "Of the 32.1 million acres of forestland in California, approximately 2.1 million acres (6.6%) burned in wildfires in the 2002-2011 time period. In the following decade (2012-2021), that figure more than tripled to 7.9 million acres (24.7%)." There has been a nearly 20% increase in the acreage of land burn due to forest fires within the past 10 years, and this dramatic increase has been attributed to climate change.]]> 2022-10-23 20:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352600909 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352605646 Bill Tripp was taught to burn land for specific purposes at the mere age of 4-years-old, and this knowledge had become tradition and common within his tribe. Yet when Native Americans were forced to leave California due to racist principles, they also took their understanding of the land and fires. Without these practices, no one took care of the land and this causes overgrown forests that are burning in mass amounts.]]> 2022-10-23 21:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2352605646 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353679478 Not only do Native Americans gain a greater connection to their religion through their burning practices, but they are also protecting the lands that they are so deeply connected to. Burning isn't a dangerous practice; instead, it is a helpful processes. "There’s a difference between cultural burning and just setting fire on the land. We use fire as a tool." ]]> 2022-10-24 14:11:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353679478 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353692544 The Bureau of Indian Affairs released a video that works toward defending and explaining the importance of Native American cultural burnings. "The 13-minute video also explains why fire is an essential and timeless tool that is necessary for maintaining and restoring ecosystems that evolved with fire. When safely applied by professionals at the right time, in the right way, for the right reasons, these prescribed fires reduce vegetation buildup, help protect our communities and restores our fire-dependent ecosystems."]]> 2022-10-24 14:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353692544 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353693092 This article details how various tribes throughout the country have used fire not only for substance and cultural practices, but also to prevent wildfires and replenish the grounds. From the Salish, to the Pend d’Oreille, to the Kootenai, to the Miwok, to the Lakota, burning practices have been such a vital part of tribes' methods of protecting their land. Therefore banning the ability to have controlled fires was a direct attack against Native Americans. ]]> 2022-10-24 14:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353693092 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353696049 "One of the first things that the English discovered about American Indians in Virginia was that they burned their wildlands." This quote was extremely insightful into looking back on the history of Native American burning practices. Cultural burning practices is not a Native American attempt to destroy the land, but instead it's always been part of their cultural to protect the land.

]]> 2022-10-24 14:19:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2353696049 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371389777 Within the article, Margo Robbins describes the Yurok, Karus, and Hoopa Tribes in California have been burning human-managed fires for centuries, yet they can no longer contain their traditional lands and practices due to state laws. Without hazel and other cultural items, many in her tribe have slipped away from the tribe as they "have become disconnected with the land and fire." Robbins believes that "Fire has the ability to reestablish that connection."]]> 2022-11-06 01:07:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371389777 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371390290 During the 1850s, the US government started its war against fire as it banned Native Americans from intentional burning as they believed to stop all fires, the contained one must end too. However, the forests became so uncontained that all the dead brush that Native Americans used to take care of has been the fuel to the fires. "They fear fire cannot be controlled."]]> 2022-11-06 01:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371390290 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371394105 Section 10: "Any person was subject to fine or punishment if they set the
prairie on fire, or refused “'o use proper exertions to extinguish the fire.'" Detailing how the U.S. government slowly stripped Native Americans of their rights, this collection of policies demonstrate how even in the very beginning, the federal government believed that Native Americans weren't intelligent enough to maintain themselves and their lands. Time and time again, Native Americans are belittled and targeted by whites to the extent in which their cultural practices and beliefs are outlaws.]]> 2022-11-06 01:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371394105 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371395461 During its first year as a state, California's legislature passed an Act for the Government and Protection of Indians that blatantly discriminated against Native Americans pushed them into servitude, labor, orphanages, and other cultures. With this, Native Americans had more laws and punishments put in place against them, in which intentional burning was outlaws. Officials believed that the "light-burning" was "essentially destructive theory."]]> 2022-11-06 01:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371395461 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371396819 During 2022, 21,349 acres burned due to dry fields that haven't been contained well. These lands are located on Flathead Reservation where the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation live. Despite having claim to the lands, these tribes aren't allowed to burn the dead grass due to state and federal fire regulations.]]> 2022-11-06 01:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2371396819 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372327807 There has been much data suggesting that there has been a large increase wildfires throughout the past century as more carbon fuels have been released into the atmosphere. "A 2016 study found enhanced the drying of organic matter and doubled the number of large fires between 1984 and 2015 in the western United States. A 2021 study supported by NOAA concluded that climate change has been the main driver of the increase in fire weather in the western United States."]]> 2022-11-07 03:20:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372327807 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372334067 Since the 1980s, the area burned in million of acres has increased by a factor of ten compared to 2020.  This demonstrates how the increase in climate change over the same period has influenced the increase in wildfires throughout the country. Over the periods that Native Americans have been banned from cultural fire practices there had been no decrease in the amount of acres burned by wildfires.]]> 2022-11-07 03:26:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372334067 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372342530 Not only has climate change been a large factor in the increase in wildfires, but also the dried brush and dead leaves that aren't being properly managed have been a large contributing factor. "Climate change enhances the drying of organic matter in forests (the material that burns and spreads wildfire), and has doubled the number of large fires between 1984 and 2015 in the western United States."]]> 2022-11-07 03:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372342530 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372372209 The article details how many reservations are already struggling to conserve water during the droughts that are common prior to wildfires. "In north-central Washington, hundreds of people in the town of Nespelem on the Colville Indian Agency were ordered to leave because of 'imminent and life-threatening' danger as the largest of five wildfires caused by dozens of Monday night lightning strikes tore through grass, sagebrush and timber." Although wildfires are damaging to all communities, reservations are already so deprived of necessities that the impacts are more harmful.]]> 2022-11-07 04:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372372209 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372382611 Cataloging the acreage and history of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation's burnings, the book describes how beneficial Native American communities have been for containing forests. Also, the experts how varying climates need specialized treatments., which specific reservations have mastered after centuries of practice.]]> 2022-11-07 04:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372382611 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372384614 During October of 2021, the Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa of the Yurok reservation participated in a contained fire to heal the land and forests to prevent future wildfires. Despite there being bans against their cultural practices, "Scientific research increasingly confirms what tribes argued all along: Low-intensity burns on designated parcels, under the right conditions, reduce the risk by consuming dead wood and other fire fuels on forest floors."]]> 2022-11-07 04:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372384614 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372391481 This extensive study documents have fuel treatments have been mainly prescribed burns, mechanical thinning, and managed wildfire; however, racism within the government has had a negative tone towards controlled burns as Native Americans were the primary contributors. ]]> 2022-11-07 04:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372391481 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372399932 "However, wildfire suppression has historically diverted federal funding from wildfire prevention. Federal government employees and academics recommended strategic resource allocation between wildfire suppression and prevention. Non-profit representatives listed inconsistent funding for fuel treatments and an emphasis on private mechanical thinning as limitations on prescribed burns in national forests."]]> 2022-11-07 04:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372399932 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372408367 Also coastal erosions and storms are destroying land, yet tribes are struggling to receive federal aid to combat the immense damages. "And now, climate change is quickly making that marginal land uninhabitable. The first Americans face the loss of home once again."]]> 2022-11-07 04:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372408367 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372413492 Navajo leaders have exclaimed that “Tribes have always been adapting to climate change — now we have to adapt even faster." As they are beginning to limit the pollution caused by truckloads for materials, many tribes throughout America have adopted climate action policies. During 2019, the Karuk tribe stepped up their battle against climate change and released a climate adaption plan with recommendations for prescribed burnings. ]]> 2022-11-07 04:46:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372413492 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372418437 This article recommends that Americans should resort back to Native American practices that align with their cultural practices of respecting the environment. "In addition, there are places in the world like Canada, like parts of Amazon, and potentially now parts of the United States, where to preserve land as a carbon sink, one of the strategies and policies is being pursued is like Indigenous conservation of the land, protection of the lands to make sure that the carbon stays in the forest and in the soil."]]> 2022-11-07 04:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2372418437 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380292958 Not only were the fires damaging to the communities that are already struggling and the fires are ravaging through sacred land, but Native Americans were forced to break Covid restrictions and expose themselves to others to combat the growing fires. "In Washington, the five fires that started in early September heavily impacted the Colville Reservation, resulting in the loss of over 80 homes, the destruction of over 200,000 acres of land, and one death. In California, the Slater fire has burned down the homes of Karuk Tribal members and Tribal staff and the Red Salmon complex fire is burning an area that is sacred to the Karuk Peoples." Multiple reservations across multiple states are suffering from the lack of care from the U.S. government. Denied masks for air quality and the pandemic, farmers are forced into the fields with no protection and limited yields.]]> 2022-11-11 14:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380292958 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380300470 The US government has rejected the notion that wildfires have increased in frequency and intensity due to climate change. The relationship had been rejected, and therefore there were no actions put forward to limit the effects of climate change on the forests by following Native American practices of controlled fires."In North American grasslands, decadal-scale wet periods facilitated widespread fire activity because of the abundance of fuel promoted by pluvial episodes. In these settings, human impacts on fire regimes are assumed to be independent of climate, thereby diminishing the strength of climate–fire relationships."]]> 2022-11-11 15:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380300470 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380305609 The Biden administration is offering money to help tribes move away from rivers and coastlines to help mitigate the effects of climate change on the reservations. However, this neglects the importance of ancestral land and is merely just a bandaid to the overall issue of climate change directly harming Native American land. Native Americans shouldn't have to move because the U.S. was neglectful with their use of the land, yet if they don't their belongings and homes might be subjected to complete destruction. ]]> 2022-11-11 15:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380305609 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380312706 Despite Native Americans being one of the most respectful communities of the land, they are being dramatically hurt by climate change. They've noticed the land change from early on and have been some of the first communities to enact legislation and action that will benefit their land rather than continue to harm it through dangerous practices. "In 2010, the Swinomish became one of the first communities to assess the problems posed by a warming planet and enact a climate action plan. An additional 50 Native American tribes have followed, creating climate strategies to protect their lands and cultures, ahead of most U.S. communities."]]> 2022-11-11 15:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2380312706 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2392762464 Native Americans have been deeply connected with cultural burning practices prior to colonizers arriving on their land. "American Indians have great respect for the fire phenomenon—some named it 'Grandfather Fire.'" Not only do tribes have respect for fire, but they also regard it as a wise figure that has life. Fire is not a dangerous figure within tribes, but it's a necessary aspect of life.]]> 2022-11-21 15:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2392762464 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2392774169 While Natives may have a loving and respectful relationship with fire, the U.S. government deemed it as a source of evil and therefore suppressed Native Americans from their culture. "After 1910, the predominant view of fire among professional foresters hardened into a nearly unanimous consensus. Now almost all of them seemed to agree that any forest fire, including 'light burning,' was something wholly destructive and even morally evil." With ban of controlled fires, there wasn't a decrease in wildfires. Instead, the fires dominated forests and reservations. "The result was a dramatic escalation in fire suppression in the West, including in the forests of Salish-Pend d’Oreille aboriginal territory and on the Flathead Reservation itself. The fires that swept through the tribe’s homeland, in short, had far-reaching impacts on national policies, and those policies in turn only accelerated the ecological transformation of western Montana."]]> 2022-11-21 15:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2392774169 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2400357337 Although tribes have been given such a small amount of land, hundreds of thousands of acres have been burned from wildfires. As climate change continues to become more and more damaging, reservations are becoming a victim to the actions of the rest of the country. "Increasingly severe wildfires have had significant impacts on Tribal lands over the past decade. In 2021 alone, nearly 400,000 acres of federal Indian reservation lands were burned by wildfires as of November 1, with additional acreage burned on state reservations and other Tribal lands."]]> 2022-11-28 15:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2400357337 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2400363552 During 2021 alone, "40 wildfire prevention programs, including 22 Tribally-managed programs" were established within tribes and those action plans "serve 1,102 communities." Native Americans have been dedicated to combating climate change and with that wild fires as the issue arises, not after the fact as the majority of Americans do.]]> 2022-11-28 15:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2400363552 dgriese1 https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2400375101 Within just one week, there were several fires that burned through reservations. This not only damages the land, but also depletes the minimal resources tribes have to combat these issues. "'The size and number of the wildfires threaten to exhaust firefighting resources.'"]]> 2022-11-28 15:11:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dgriese1/17rmra2jxal9tgga/wish/2400375101