Fire Tender | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 7 | 1m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
A Yurok knowledge keeper seeks to return fire practices, and restore land and people.
Yurok people have been putting fire on the land since time immemorial...but this practice has been disrupted by California settlers. Catastrophic fires in the West, however, has policymakers rethinking their commitment to fire suppression. FIRE TENDER shares the work of Margo Robbins, a Yurok knowledge keeper, seeking to return practices to Yurok territory, and to restore the land and its people.
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Fire Tender | Trailer
Preview: Season 8 Episode 7 | 1m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
Yurok people have been putting fire on the land since time immemorial...but this practice has been disrupted by California settlers. Catastrophic fires in the West, however, has policymakers rethinking their commitment to fire suppression. FIRE TENDER shares the work of Margo Robbins, a Yurok knowledge keeper, seeking to return practices to Yurok territory, and to restore the land and its people.
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It will take care of us, but we in turn need to take care of it.
TINA: To the Yurok people, wildland fire is essential and bringing fire to the land is their responsibility.
MARGO: Fire is medicine for the land.
but in my lifetime it's been outlawed.
TINA: Margo Robbins, a Yurok knowledge keeper, is fighting to restore this ancient tradition.
MARGO: This is so amazing.
A month later and all this stuff is growing here.
It is so cool.
We are doing much more than just reducing the amount of brush.
We are restoring the land and when the land is healthy, the people will be healthy.
Restoration of the land is restoration of the people.
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