Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships

Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological PartnershipsWith rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural burning practices. Indigenous communities throughout this region known as Turtle Island have long used fire to manage their homelands. An interdisciplinary anthology that includes extensive Native views, Landkeeping provides engaging perspectives on the

The women of the tribe

A blend of history

though Ceballos tethers the reader to “the scattered Kodak family” in this “end-time colonial settler nightmare

Native people have long championed their belief in a United States of civil liberties and called on it to honor its legal obligations

Regardless

and greed that destroyed Osage lives and culture in the early 1920's

reconnects

tying in the collection's title to the importance of this life-giving and sustaining resource to the Tohono O'odham people

the assignment of new names

Indigenous Identities: Here

The book denotes various aspects of O'odham himdag (culture) and begins with a simple question that the boy asks his Hu'ul Ke: li (Grandfather) with a culturally relevant answer as to why they do the things they do during the day

are the traditional homelands of many Indigenous nations