Wildfire

Karuk cultural fire institutions

The Karuk Tribe is renewing cultural burning through sovereign practitioners, family and ceremonial knowledge, an elected government, a natural-resources department, training, protected research relationships, and negotiated work across lands that other governments administer. The arrangement can support practice without making an agency credential, grant, or scientific model the source of Karuk authority.

How can a sovereign people restore cultural fire across an ancestral territory largely controlled by other governments without allowing those governments to redefine the practice?