On today's episode, Jessica hosts Deniss Martinez (Tutunaku descendant), PhD candidate in Ecology at UC Davis. Deniss' dissertation research focuses on Indigenous cultural burning, so we explore what cultural burning is, the diversity within cultural burning, how federal and state agencies can better collaborate with cultural burning practitioners, as well as how practitioners are facing the threat of climate change. Throughout the episode we talk about centering Indigenous voices and utilizing Community Based Participatory Research practices in the field of Ecology, as well as all the ways that culture and the land are inextricably linked. Links * Heritage Voices on the APN [https://www.archpodnet.com/heritagevoices] * Hands on the land, heart in community: Returning cultural fires [wildfire-2646171110.html">https://www.ehn.org/indigenous-wildfire-2646171110.html] * Project Firehawk: Decolonizing Prescribed Fire [https://fireadaptednetwork.org/project-firehawk-decolonizing-prescribed-fire/] * Keepers of the Flame: Supporting the Revitalization of Indigenous Cultural Burning (Academic Publication) [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08941920.2021.2006385] * Indigenous Science and Cultural Fire Practices (Podcast) [https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QY401OrxKUtuJHxp9oiXI?si=zwpe7P1vTjSCLziYnmua0Q] * M. Kat Anderson's Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild] * Kari Marie Norgaard's Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action [https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/salmon-and-acorns-feed-our-people/9780813584195] Contact * Deniss: djmartinez@ucdavis.edu, Twitter: @denissjmartinez [https://www.twitter.com/denissjmartinez] * Jessica Jessica@livingheritageanthropology.org @livingheritageA [http://www.twitter.com/livingheritageA]@LivingHeritageResearchCouncil [http://www.twitter.com/LivingHeritageResearchCouncil] ArchPodNet * APN Website: https://www.archpodnet.com [https://www.archpodnet.com/] * APN on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/archpodnet * APN on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/archpodnet * APN on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/archpodnet * Tee Public Store [https://www.teepublic.com/stores/archaeology-podcast-network?ref_id=5724] Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/] * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff] * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/] * Motion [https://www.archpodnet.com/motion]