Firelighters: Fire is Medicine | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 16 | 1m 21sVideo 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 | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 16 | 1m 21sVideo 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(light music) TINA MCDUFFIE: In Northern California, wildfires are now catastrophic.
- The land can't take much more.
You can look around us right now and see all the smoke.
Everywhere you go, everything is on fire.
TINA: But to many Native tribes, the solution is controlled fire.
- Fire is meant to be part of the ecosystems.
And as people, we also play a very critical part in utilizing fire to keep our ecosystems healthy.
- [Firelighter] It makes the land feel better.
TINA: These women from the Yurok, Hoopa, and Karuk tribes are fighting to restore the land.
- [Firelighter] We're firelighters.
We're not firefighters.
We don't chase it.
We light it.
We work with it.
- [Firelighter 2] We've been taking care of this land for thousands and thousands and thousands of years.
- [Firelighter 3] Really gratifying to see how clear the land is, and also, all of this new growth.
(light music) - [Firelighter 2] We have really greatly reduced the fire hazard in this area.
- I'm bubbling with joy with the way that today went.
(light music) TINA: Firelighters: Fire is Medicine, on Local, USA.
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Preview: S8 Ep16 | 30s | Women leaders reclaim for their right to share the indigenous practice of controlled burning. (30s)
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