The Native Lands Advocacy Project is happy to announce our newest storymap: Good Fire: Mitigating Wildfire Risk & Healing Native Lands!
This interactive storymap explores the history of fire suppression in the U.S., the implications of those policies on Native Nations, and contemporary efforts led by Native peoples to reintroduce fire to their ancestral homelands. With the help of our fire-related data tools, we can examine the impacts of climate change, both in real-time and over the course of the last several decades. These tools, found in the Native Land Information System, shed light on the intersectional nature of wildfire-related crises and how they are inextricably tied to colonialism.
Let’s take a look at some key features of our Good Fire Storymap below!
Key Features of Our Good Fire Storymap:
- A timeline of fire policy in the U.S.
- Contemporary wildfire data from the Native Land Information System (NLIS)
- An examination of the impacts of colonialism on Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) and how that ties into the occurrence of catastrophic wildfires
- An interview with Yurok Fire Practitioner, Margo Robbins, in which we discuss the benefits of fire on the landscape and how the Yurok people are reintroducing it to their homelands
Written by Mauryn Morfitt
