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"Nothing we do is primitive. Everything comes from thousands of years of skill, knowledge, community and working together."
"When you start blessing people and doing ceremonies with white sage, you're messing with our land."
The last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language hasn't stopped working to keep her language alive.
One of California's most common freshwater wetland plants was — and is — one of its most useful resources.
California's Native peoples have the tools to live in balance with the rest of nature.
No matter what you learned in fourth grade, California Indians didn't vanish when the '49ers arrived.
The park-like forests of the 19th Century Sierra Nevada were sustained by carefully planned fires conducted by Native people.
Ironically, Smokey the Bear would actually live better if his forest home burned every now and then.
How the U.S. Forest Service chose fire suppression as its official policy a century ago.
“200 years ago, before the white man came, it was green. Our ditches lifted the groundwater up."
Modern society harms the desert in many ways, but the most serious threat is ignorance.
Enter for a chance to win tickets to the reception/premiere screening/panel on Tending the Wild on January 26 at 7pm at The Autry.
