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We estimate there were ~7,000 annual cultural ignitions on the landscape across vegetation types & locations. Many ignitions occurred near villages, but ignitions away from villages along trail networks brought substantial cultural burning across the landscape.

Excited to share our new paper modeling historical cultural ignitions across a large landscape in N. California!

Working with folks from the Karuk Tribe, we collaboratively developed a spatially-explicit landscape-scale model to simulate cultural burning. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea…

Modeling indigenous fire regimes in a way that protects indigenous knowledge sovereignty.

This happens to all Ntv ppl btw, I’m not a special one. By far people I talk with at events are open-hearted & coming with a deep readiness to stfu & de-center their own opinions. It’s been 7 mos of glad heartedness for me & I hope her journey brings her closer to authenticity.

This gal came to my book event wanting to partner & as we talked about the difference between foraging & gathering she got heated & never called. Instead she turned around & used my words to legitimize her bad practices. 😮‍💨 Putting the extra in extractive
civileats.com/2024/04/09/wer…

When Briarpatch Magazine asked if I would curate a reading list for them, I said, 'Well, that's basically my reason for existing.' With books, and a podcast, by Sara @ndntacocat.bsky.social Puff the Magic Hater Robyn Maynard
Taté Walker
Dr Max Liboiron
and Veldon Coburn.

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in today's newsletter, Sara @ndntacocat.bsky.social writes about frybread and Indian Tacos! buttondown.email/theswordandthe…

Is an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship possible? LA Times coasts reporter Rosanna Xia explains and stakes and possible paths forward as California grapples with sea level rise on the Nature Revisited podcast. buff.ly/435A4bm

representation does NOT fucking matter when you represent genocide. hope that helps.

So we get big talk about food sovereignty funding & equity in our food systems, just as long as the USDA corncobs get to decide what equity means to us & in a way that allows them to underserve the vast majority of the BIPOC community. Cool report you got there bozos.

Ran across this metal af mushroom today while I was creek peeping for some salmon in Lagunitas Creek. ID in description.

Why no quotes from Tribes? “The Wilderness Act specifies that protected areas should be ‘untrammeled by man.’ That framing has frustrated Native American tribes in California, which shaped the landscape for millennia with cultural, or prescribed, burning.” npr.org/2024/02/26/123…

I hecking love Civil Eats. If you're not reading their articles, they do pretty serious work platforming voices that can give you actual hope & specific direction for who you can throw your support behind. I really appreciate their work.

Had a lovely event with NATIV & was asked about my menu for the holiday. Karuk New Year coincides with Thanksgiving & feasting is a tradition at this time so I go hard for it. This apple cider brined turkey with an acorn calvados gravy is a mandatory fave. bbc.com/travel/article…

Sara @ndntacocat.bsky.social nativeamericacalling Angelenos 📣 get a taste of 𝘾𝙝𝙞́𝙢𝙞 𝙉𝙪'𝙖𝙢 this Sunday at Now Serving LA where Calvosa Olson will be joined by Odilia Yego for a conversation about California's Indigenous foodways. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

RSVP here: buff.ly/46Ik2W5

Karuk home cook Sara Calvosa Olson (Sara @ndntacocat.bsky.social) tells a compassionate story about the flavors and food of #NativeCalifornia in her new cookbook 𝘾𝙝𝙞́𝙢𝙞 𝙉𝙪'𝙖𝙢—in this interview she shares insights with Native America Calling (@180099native). buff.ly/45YiQMW

If you're in the L.A. area and would like to come to my book chat with Odilia Romera, Co-Founder and Executive Director of CIELO, RSVP to Now Serving: ChimiNuam.eventbrite.com

What values do we deepen when we engage with California's Indigenous foodways? 𝘾𝙝𝙞́𝙢𝙞 𝙉𝙪'𝙖𝙢 author Sara Calvosa Olson (Sara @ndntacocat.bsky.social) and Odilia Yego dig into food sovereignty and heritage November 5 at Now Serving—join us! 🎫 Tickets here: buff.ly/46Ik2W5