The Healing Power Of Fire Bringing back ancient Indigenous fire practices helps restore cultural connections, heal the land and strengthen communities. On Gitanyow lands, restorative fire brings people together and mitigates increasingly intense and widespread...
In northern British Columbia, an Indigenous community is trying to revive the ancient practice of cultural burns, prescribed fires which aim to prevent large destructive fires. After more than 100 years of banning this practice, this is a small revolution. It’s...
Gitanyow Lax’yip, March 21, 2024: The Gitanyow Lax’Yip Guardians, in partnership with the BC Wildfire Service, will conduct a cultural burn project approximately one kilometer south of Gitanyow. The total area to be burned is 240 hectares, and it will be done in...
Project led by Gitanyow Nation in collaboration with UBC researchers explores how cultural burning, planting practices protect against catastrophic wildfire. Climate change, forestry and fire suppression practices have all worsened wildfire seasons in British...
