Indigenous burning in the US and contemporary impacts for forest management (Guest Lecture Dr. Serra Hoagland)

Question 1

Tribal status (land, funding)

Answer 1

• Tribes manage 56 million acres (2.4%)
• NFIRMA: National Indian Forest Resource Management Act
• IFMAT: Indian Forest Management Act Team
• Tribes need more grants, land, and staff

Question 2

NFIRMA

Answer 2

Decadal independent assessment of tribal forests and forest management
- One task is all about tribal forest condition and weaves in fire management in Indian country

Question 3

TEK frontier

Answer 3

Native people stereotyped as inept
- Native people who were burning in California were put in jail, not allowed to practice religion

Question 4

Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)

Answer 4

Cumulative body of knowledge, practice, and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations
- The way that indigenous people relate to their ecosystems