The Impacts of Fire on Indigenous People

Hank Lewis was one of the first researchers to document indigenous fire stewardship and its role in shaping the landscape. He worked with the Woodland, Cree and Denny people in Northern Alberta. In the 1970s when he did his work that he thought that between 90 and 95 percent of that knowledge had been lost. And so we're getting these massive big fire events that have come through. So for indigenous people, you know, like my family and others, they, my family were actually Buffalo hunters and they used fire in the Buffalo hunt, but also afterwards to improve the habitat forbuffalo.

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