From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine , an interview by Aynsley O’Neill with Amy Cardinal Christianson, a senior fire advisor with the Indigenous Leadership Initiative.

To combat increasingly dangerous wildfires, modern fire management teams may use prescribed burns to reduce fuel buildup before fire season begins. But around the world, Indigenous people have been using fire on the landscape for thousands of years.

One such practice comes from the Métis tradition in Western Canada.

While a prescribed burn is typically a larger, low- to moderate-intensity fire, the Métis burning practice is much smaller, more closely resembling a campfire, and it carries cultural significance.

Cree-Métis scientist Amy Cardinal Christianson is a senior

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