But as I + others have written (e.g., after 2019-2020 Black Summer here insidestory.org.au/what-are-whi...), it is a habit of non-indigenous people to rush to FN people in times of crisis and ask them to solve problems not of their making. FN rights and knowledge are ignored until "we" have a crisis - ThreadSky

tdneale.bsky.social • 61 days ago

But as I + others have written (e.g., after 2019-2020 Black Summer here https://insidestory.org.au/what-are-whitefellas-talking-about-when-we-talk-about-cultural-burning/), it is a habit of non-indigenous people to rush to FN people in times of crisis and ask them to solve problems not of their making. FN rights and knowledge are ignored until "we" have a crisis

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wombatscholar.bsky.social•60 days ago

But are Indigenous thought leaders ever really called on to solve a crisis? Sure, Indigenous knowledge practices may be invoked rhetorically and simplistically as a pretense of engagement, to Indigenous-wash whitefella mistakes - but I'm still waiting to see genuine epistemic decolonization....

wombatscholar.bsky.social•60 days ago

As I've written elsewhere (open access), a 'crisis' framing serves to keep Indigenous and other knowledges out of reckoning. Framing a crisis necessarily limits what counts as expertise. If you're going to see any Indigenous knowledge it'll be post-crisis....

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0306312721996053

wombatscholar.bsky.social•60 days ago

As Janet Roitman also discerned, of course:
https://www.dukeupress.edu/anti-crisis

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tdneale.bsky.social•61 days ago

E.g. "For non-Indigenous people with an established or new interest in this issue, the vital question to ask is: what are we trying to achieve in seeking to support cultural burning? ... After everything, are we still looking for help without reciprocity?"

tdneale.bsky.social•61 days ago

Based on my experience working with FN, I was hesitant to suggest FN have the solution to a very urban + anthropogenic wildfire problem they didn’t make. But wildfire mitigation in the US (+ anywhere) needs to be anticolonial. It needs FN political + territorial sovereignty. It needs landback.

tdneale.bsky.social•61 days ago

If you want to know more about FN fire, start with FN people, e.g.
We Are Fire: https://wearefire.ca/
Good Fire podcast: https://yourforestpodcast.com/good-fire-podcast
Frank Kanawha Lake (Karuk/Yaruk): https://research.fs.usda.gov/about/people/franklake#products-tab
Steffensen's “Fire Country”: https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/fire-country-by-victor-steffensen/9781741177268
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