“Euro-American colonization caused the largest shifts in fire behaviors in California over the past 400 years. In other words, the genocide of Indigenous peoples directly relates to today’s catastrophic burning.”

Just another reason we say #LandBack https://theconversation.com/what-western-states-can-learn-from-native-american-wildfire-management-strategies-120731?utm_medium=amptwitter&utm_source=twitter

“But starting with the Spanish conquest and continuing today in the form of Forest Service and CalFire policies, fire suppression has drastically limited cultural burning.” https://www.kcet.org/shows/tending-the-wild/episodes/cultural-burning

CA tribes used fire to manage lands for thousands of years until colonizers like John Muir who considered Indigenous ppl, practices & knowledge as inferior, forbid it & even killed them for it. & look at California today- burning out of control. #LandBack https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-california-wildfires-werent-always-this-destructive