During the last decades, archaeology has shown that Indigenous people have had an important role in transforming nature and creating landscapes in the Amazon during the last 13,000 years. This presentation will show how such practices of forest making still endure today and how archaeology can reconstruct them in the past. It will also highlight the important role that Indigenous lands have to protect endangered forested areas in the Amazon.| yff.yale.edu
In this conversation, Bill Tripp talks to Tania Munz about how his people have lived and worked the land for millennia, what happened after European contact, and how Karuk Tribal members are working today to preserve their ancestral ways of life and culture by managing their forests with fire. They will discuss what nearly a century of fire exclusion has meant to their lands and what the challenges are today as his people steward their forests in the face of global climate change. Bill will d...| yff.yale.edu