“Hydropower development has imposed steep costs on tribal fisheries and homelands, flooding more than 1 million acres and blocking salmon runs on major rivers such as the Columbia, Snake and Klamath… tribes continue to navigate a complex federal licensing system to safeguard their interests.”

"It's disturbing, disgusting, and wrong. You should not erase other people's history because it makes you uncomfortable," Cachora said. www.ktvq.com/news/local-n...

looking like another busy fire year for Oregon

“What the Trump administration is proposing to modify here is a really important tool for states and tribes.” www.hcn.org/articles/an-...

Fire is “needed to make food healthy again. To make us all — humans and our non-human relatives — healthy again. And to remind us that people are part of this landscape, too.” sierranewsonline.com/little-fires...

For 50 years, ITC has supported Tribal forestry, but these practices are far older. Cultural burning is an act of Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship. Bill Tripp(Karuk Tribe) champions these practices, blending ancestral knowledge with modern policy to care for forests and communities.#KarukTribe

“Why should a friend for so many years be treated like this? We need support from democratic-minded people in the United States.” grist.org/global-indig...

(AFP) - A new brochure from Greenland’s government advises its people to stockpile food and water, hunting weapons and ammunition in the event of a ‘crisis.’ www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Greenlandic politician Tillie Martinussen on the sovereignty of Greenlanders, the greed in the US, and how they view their land. Also comments on how the US treated Natives, as a very good reason to not want to be a part of the US. youtu.be/xs53IESxz80?...

one of the strangest things about this particular moment is watching colonizers complain about other colonizers colonizing while in other contexts making the same arguments that the colonizers they are complaining about are making, and having absolutely no self-awareness of this rampant hypocrisy

Lots of good people involved with this event coming up at UC Davis in Feb

Adrian’s! www.sfgate.com/centralcalif...

Inuit from Alaska and Canada stand with our relatives in Greenland 🇬🇱 Quyana @ayyu210.bsky.social for organizing this video

🎬 New animation out! Nature-based Solutions to Extreme Wildfires. This video presents a roadmap to integrate #NatureBasedSolutions into wildfire governance. 📄 Open-access paper: lnkd.in/eEd7mqj7 ▶️ youtu.be/6yTn5olrZ5o

The flag of Greenland, like the Sami flag, does not include a Nordic cross. See alt text: “The fact that the Greenland flag does not feature a cross shows clearly that the country has a degree of political freedom as well as a close affinity with the other Inuit peoples around the pole.”

As President Trump has ratcheted up his threats to seize Greenland, his billionaire friend Ronald Lauder has been making deals there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A downside to literally no one in this Administration understanding basic economics is that "we're going to raise tariffs until you give up Greenland" is the econ version of "I'm going to repeatedly kick myself in the testicles until you do what I want" www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/t...

Get your “Make America Go Away” gear from Greenland now, before February 1, to avoid a 10% tariff www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

1/ Cultural burning returns to the Sierra foothills — KQED For the first time in living memory, Maidu tribes are bringing back ancestral fire stewardship to care for the land. 🔗 www.kqed.org/science/1999...

“Those stories tell us, after [the first fires], people learned to take care of the land. And so we’re at that time, this is the opportunity when there’s a fire footprint, even though there’s been devastation, the only good choice, I think, is to step back in and learn to steward [with fire] again.”

After Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Indigenous leaders and organizers are calling for accountability and an end to ICE raids.

“Time immemorial is saying ‘since the beginning of our people as a cultural group, as a community, and we don’t know how long that is,’” Steeves said. “And maybe it’s not important to us, but it sure as heck, in North and South America, is a lot more than 11,000 or 12,000 years.’”

This Finn says the US does not have the winter warfare capability to occupy Greenland. youtube.com/watch?v=8hdt...

"We know that forests aren’t static... The ones we have now won’t be there forever. We should have others coming up with the right age, and structured demographics, so that we always have that type of habitat in place.”

In Minneapolis: "Some of our Native people get mistaken for our relatives south of the border.” ictnews.org/news/five-na...

“We stand together: Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people.” dk.siumut.gl/vi-star-samm...

Inuk: “They don’t have to take our land.” bbc.com/news/videos/...

The Nerd Reich did an excellent piece on this last year that can explain the Silicon Valley obsession w/ Greenland better than I can.

In Germany: “We wander into an airy mass of green, where a mix of species are growing. Huge oaks, maple and beech trees shoot up to the canopy, Douglas fir and spruce saplings cover the ground below. “‘We use this for showing people our idea for the future,’ says Krüger.”

“It’s not just about burning. It’s about what the relationship is with the plant afterward, and how you’re going to use it, and how it’s going to be supported by the burn.” amp.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/e...

Pretendianism and the other side of the colonial coin, disenrollment, destroy collectivism and glorify individualism. They are just a couple more ways for settlers to grab land. “If you’re going to identify as an Indigenous person, then show us how you’re Indigenous, based on tribal protocols.”

Something to write up sometime: “Parks, yards, patches, and corridors: How to burn the chaparral”

“We should be thinking about renewal.” youtube.com/watch?v=SSQO...

Creating welcome mats for the grizzly youtu.be/e5ILG_zQFKU?...

You will be visited by three spirits

🔥Preorder and get 20% off here (code S26), shipping date is March 2026: osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/landkee...

"We've lived alongside them for thousands of years," Jason Moody, the father of one of the girls in the school group, and Nuxalk's fisheries and wildlife planning coordinator told CBC News in a Nov. 28 interview. "Our relationship is one of respect, and they're revered and honoured."

In SLO next week www.ksby.com/san-luis-obi...

“We were able to prove with science that this was a thing and it needs to happen again,” Zhaawendaagozikwe said. www.superiortelegram.com/news/local/c...

“When the Indian was on the land, the canopy was open,” said Honorable Ron W. Goode, Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe. “In that open space, a variety of plants, bushes, and smaller trees, like oak trees, [grew],…still used today by native tribes for food, medicinal or cultural purposes.”

“Donna Thompson, chairwoman of the Fort Hall Business Council of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, said the measure responds to the federal government’s treaty obligations and supports the preservation of culturally important foods such as camas, bitterroot, wild onions, sage, and chokecherry.”

“The ballet is a story of a young Indigenous firefighter named Nathan whose worldview is transformed after meeting Mothkʷ, a fierce guardian of ancestral knowledge who practices cultural burning. ‘This is not a tale of apocalypse, but of perseverance. Of memory that survives and endures…’”

Here’s a brief and welcome respite from the mantra of don’t-burn-in -SoCal-it’s-not-like-the-Sierra: “Emily Burgueno calls them ‘sovereign burns… grounded in our creation stories, our sacred beliefs and philosophy.’” @nohaggerty.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

I would love to see the State of California throw its weight behind regenerating a fire-resilient, diverse, open Indigenous cultural landscape, instead of cutting ineffective fuel breaks, lighting bad Rx fires, and fighting CCI and EHL in court. @nohaggerty.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...

“This marks the first return of cultural burning to the landscape since Tolowa Dee-ni’ were forcibly removed from the area in the 1850s and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park was created in 1929.” kymkemp.com/2025/11/26/c...

Recommend what would work for a lot of species, namely, using fire to create a varied, patch-mosaic landscape with an abundance of food and water for these animals. www.hcn.org/articles/the...

Different burn cycles for different landscapes: every 15 years, or seven years, four years, two years… It depends. infonews.ca/news/7435899...

Song for the times