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Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire

Authors: Hankins, Don L.; Bisbing, Sarah M.; Christianson, Amy Cardinal; Clark, Sara; Desautel, Cody; Eriksen, Christine; Fulé, Peter Z.; +5 Authors

Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire

Abstract

Los incendios naturales o iniciados intencionalmente no son nuevos en los paisajes de Norteamérica, o para las culturas indígenas cuyos lugares ancestrales abarcan. Por milenios, las Administraciones Indígenas de Tierras para mitigar los incendios (Indigenous Fire Stewardship, IFS) han sido regional- y localmente distribuidas a través de los ecosistemas de Norteamérica. Esas prácticas reconfiguraron los regímenes de fuegos para proveer de condiciones de vida más seguras y también de forraje, y redujeron los incendios naturales y sus emisiones previo a la llegada de la colonización Euro-americana. Los impactos de esta colonización incluyeron la introducción de enfermedades foráneas, y genocidios diversos, lo que disminuyó en gran medida la extensión de las IFS. Las políticas y prácticas coloniales posteriores efectivamente alteraron la vegetación y los patrones de combustibles, los regímenes de fuegos, y también los efectos de las IFS, por entonces poderosas y de gran alcance territorial. Esas influencias han contribuido al estado actual de los incendios de vegetación y sus efectos sobre el clima. Antes de la colonización, los derechos de las IFS se pasaban de generación en generación y por milenios, mediante la administración activa de las IFS, y esos derechos fueron, y continúan siendo protegidos, bajo la ley indígena. Sin embargo las leyes federales de los EEUU no reconocen ese derecho fundamental a pesar de su status legal dentro de las leyes internacionales. Reinstalar esos derechos proveerá de muchas ventajas para ser adicionadas a la crisis moderna de los incendios y del clima. Esta reinstalación puede acelerarse a través de accesos ligados a diferentes tierras, una reforma de las políticas y las oportunidades que brinda el aprendizaje.

Wild and intentionally ignited fires are not new to North American landscapes or to the Indigenous cultures whose ancestral places encompass them. For millennia, Indigenous fire stewardship has been regionally and locally distributed across North American ecosystems. These practices reshaped fire regimes to provide safe living and foraging conditions and reduced wildfires and their emissions prior to Euro-American colonization. Euro-American colonization impacts initially included introduction of foreign diseases and widespread genocide, which broadly diminished the extent of Indigenous fire stewardship. Colonial policies and practices thereafter effectively altered vegetation and fuel patterns, fire regimes, and the once far-reaching effects of Indigenous fire stewardship. These influences have contributed to the current state of wildfires and their climate effects. Prior to colonization, Indigenous stewardship rights had been passed down through generations for millennia of active stewardship, and those rights were and continue to be protected under Indigenous law. However, US federal laws do not recognize these fundamental rights despite their legal standing in international law. Re-instating these rights would provide many advantages to addressing the modern wildfire and climate crisis. Re-instatement could be accelerated through linked land access, policy reform, and learning opportunities.

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