Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Preview
Preview: Season 8 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Women leaders reclaim for their right to share the indigenous practice of controlled burning.
For centuries, most landscapes in North America were shaped by fire between lightning strikes and Indigenous burns. Indigenous people had deep knowledge of the art of using fire, and still do today. FIRELIGHTERS follows the work of women leaders from the Yurok and Karuk Tribes who are building resources to share indigenous practices and create policies to take back indigenous burning rights.
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Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Preview
Preview: Season 8 Episode 16 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
For centuries, most landscapes in North America were shaped by fire between lightning strikes and Indigenous burns. Indigenous people had deep knowledge of the art of using fire, and still do today. FIRELIGHTERS follows the work of women leaders from the Yurok and Karuk Tribes who are building resources to share indigenous practices and create policies to take back indigenous burning rights.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(drum beat) TINA MCDUFFIE: In Northern California, wildfires are now catastrophic.
- The land can't take much more.
Everywhere you go, everything's on fire.
TINA: But to many Native tribes, the solution is controlled fire.
- [Interviewee] Fire is meant to be part of the ecosystems.
- [Interviewee 2] It makes the land feel better.
- [Interviewee] It's really gratifying to see how clear the land is.
Also, all of this new growth.
TINA: Firelighters: Fire is Medicine, on Local, USA.
Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Trailer
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Women leaders reclaim for their right to share the indigenous practice of controlled burning. (1m 21s)
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