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Indigenous elder Ron Goode and Pastor Katerina Gea join hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott to talk about an indigenous approach to fire management, frequently referred to as Cultural Burning. We delve into the sacred use of fire, how these kinds of preventative burns play a critical role in preventing wildfires, and fire's sacred connection to water and land.
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1:30 - Introduction
4:46 - What do we mean by cultural burn?
21:27 - Fire shapes Water
29:34 - Linking the four elements
34:22 - The forest plan: recreation sustainability and economic sustainability
49:09 - How the State's fire agency shifted its decision from prohibiting to promoting cultural burning
58:23 - Pastor Katerina's experience in cultural burning
1:04:45 promo - "The spirits are here and the spirits are listening to us"
Music Title: Both of Us
Music by: madiRFAN
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Ron W Goode, is a veteran of the United States Army, a retired community professor at Fresno City College and Oakhurst Center and a tribal leader of the North Fork Mono Tribe for more than 40 years where he represents the tribe in various capacities including Willow Creek Watershed Collaboration, Crane Valley Meadow/Oak Restoration Project and more. In his capacity as a traditional knowledge holder, he has worked extensively with cal state fire department, and has been leading cultural burns for many years
For many years, Ron and his tribal members, local community, and volunteers have been significant players in protecting and improving the lands and waters through various ways including the practice of cultural burning in the Bass Lake Ranger District, Cold Springs Rancheria, Sierra National Forest, Sequoia Park, Private, and Tribal Lands in Mariposa with the Mariposa Miwok Tribe.
Ron is also a 6th-degree judo black belt holder.
Reverend Katerina Gea is a Mennonite pastor, and educator who offers her leadership at the Wild Church network in Frescno California; her work and ministry are inspired by Jesus's life of love, his ministry among the oppressed and forsaken, and by ancient prophetic visions of shalom (peace, harmony, justice, right relations) for all creation.
Katerina is also an organizer at the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition which centers around racial and climate justice with a focus on Indigenous land rights.
She got her Master's of Divinity in Theology and Peace Studies from the Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary.
