Cultural Fire Intern

Geographic Scope: Northern Mendocino, Southern Humboldt, and Southwestern Trinity counties, California (Kinest'e/Wailaki ancestral homelands)

Focus Areas:

• Traditional fire management and cultural fire practices
• N-shong konk' ("good fire") - promoting traditional knowledge, lifeways and spiritual values
• Biocultural diversity and resilience to wildfire, drought, flooding & erosion
• Indigenous fire management practices and forest stewardship
• Fire-dependent species conservation (e.g., giant sequoias)

Overview:
N-shong konk' ("good fire") promotes traditional knowledge, lifeways and spiritual values as well as biocultural diversity and resilience to wildfire, drought, flooding & erosion. Indigenous Peoples of California have practiced cultural fire management since time immemorial. Millennia of Indigenous traditional fire regimes are thanksgiving for the forest, her foods, medicines and materials; this long history of Indigenous fire management produced and sustained many fire-dependent species, such as giant sequoias.

Organization Background:
Native Health in Native Hands is a native-led, native-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, created by Kinest'e people. NHNH promotes culturally responsive pathways for intergenerational wellness - reconnecting youth and community to roles and responsibilities to Mother Earth, all relations and one another.

Contact:

• Mailing Address: PO Box 845, Hoopa, CA 95546

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