Dr. Melinda Adams
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Name plate installed outside my lab. The little Native girl in me who made it through physics, chemistry, org biology, and calculus is so joyful 😀
✨For our Indigenous Ancestors, Relatives, and Peoples 📚🤓🌿
#WomenInSTEM
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Tsįndił - a mark signifying “we are ready” bestowed upon N’dee Apache warriors. This mark was given for my PhD grad portraits
#Indigenous
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#grad
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Dago te’ hi new followers 👋🏽 Shí Melinda, I’m an Apache professor.
I study
#wildfire
, plants/soils, and Traditional Ecological Practices 🌿 A’shoog thanks for the follow, who are you?
#WomenInSTEM
#AcademicTwitter
#NativeTwitter
#Woc
#professor
#goodfire
#rxfire
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PhD in 4 years, right into a tenure track 🤲🏽🌿🔥 my Peoples are so proud ☺️
Drop the most iconic pic of you.
I feel the most iconic when I’m with my badass sisters.
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🌻🚨Excited to share I’ve joined the Geography & Atmospheric Science & Indigenous Studies Department
@KUIndigenous
at
@UnivOfKansas
where I’ll have my own lab to continue Indigenous environmental science research as a tenured track Prof!
#AcademicTwitter
#NativeTwitter
#academia
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Dago te’. Welcome all, Melinda here. Scholar, Apache woman, Native scientist, sometimes beader, dancer -full time good fire plant/soil ecology & Native American Studies nerd 🌿
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Feeling Indigenously beautiful 😍 in this ribbon skirt made with Auntie laughs, language and love. Created when my heart needed it, a healing dress 🌿💛
#INDIGENOUS
#NativeTwitter
#fashion
#ribbonskirt
#graduation
#selfcare
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😭 I’M AN INDIGENOUS HOMEOWNER 🥳🎉💛🫶🏽🏡
#homebuying
#homeowner
#home
#generationalwealth
#Indigenous
#NativeAmerican
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Hello new friends🌻👋🏽 I’m Melinda, Apache scientist & Prof
@UnivOfKansas
where I research fire, plants/soils & Indigenous Studies 🌿- my passions.
What are YOU passionate about?
Follow for
#goodfire
pics/scholarship & adventures 🔥
#NativeTwitter
#AcademicTwitter
@AcademicChatter
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Indigenizing UC grad regalia with my Tribal designs, Apache moccasins, and
#goodfire
colors 🔥🌿
#phd
#grad
#UC
#INDIGENOUS
#NativeTwitter
#AcademicTwitter
#glam
#fashion
#cali
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Just a Tribal college girl who decided to go for it.
New lab space 🤲🏽🌿🔥
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I’m a new TT Indigenous Professor & picking up keys to my Indigenous Environmental Science lab 🌿 We taking up space & coming for all our Ancestors dreamed for us ✨🪶
@KUIndigenous
@UnivOfKansas
#NativeTwitter
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
@NativeatKU
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Prof studying soil responses to cultural fire but also a practitioner & advocate for more
#rx
burns
#goodfire
to mitigate
#California
#wildfire
#ClimateCrisis
🤲🏽🌿🔥
#NativeAmerican
#Indigenous
#ecology
#STEM
#WOC
#fire
Drop a cool photo that someone took of you doing your job.
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Our paper on Indigenous cultural fire is out 🔥🌿 we discuss “Ceremonial Fire”, climate change implications & moving from TEK to TEP, “Traditional Ecological Practices” ✍🏽 w Chairman Goode & Erica Tom
#goodfire
#rxfire
#INDIGENOUS
#AcademicTwitter
@AcademicChatter
#NativeTwitter
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This is lovely. I was asked if I wouldn’t mind being a featured scientist in a Sierra Nevada outdoor education 3rd grade curriculum 🥹
To More Indigenous scientists 👩🏽🔬🔥🌿🤲🏽
#Nativesinstem
#WOC
#WomenInSTEM
#Indigenous
#NativeAmerican
#NativeTwitter
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Indigenous science is where it's at 👏🌎😍
Indigenous science is where it's at 👏🌎😍
Indigenous science is where it's at 👏🌎😍
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New faculty orientation ☺️
1st academic year as Dr. Adams📚
👋🏽I’m an Indigenous prof who researches fire, climate change & Indigenous Studies. Who are you?!
@UnivOfKansas
@AcademicChatter
#WomenInSTEM
#AcademicTwitter
#academia
#INDIGENOUS
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Thank you
@SciSuperheroes
! Here is my Super Scientist character, created with the goal of inspiring/educating young people about how cool science is! 🌎🌿Leave a🔥 if you love it ☺️!
#science
#WomenInSTEM
#scienceeducation
#anime
#Indigenous
#NativeAmerican
#wildfire
#goodfire
Dr Melinda Adams
@Scholar_Melinda
aka Ember🔥 is the first of a new series! An assistant prof
@UnivOfKansas
and
#Indigenous
fire scientist, she studies the effects of prescribed and Indigenous-led
#culturalfire
on soils and plants.
#goodfire
is real. 🔥🎨
@clydebeech
More at🔗
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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation University Program Director 🤓🌿👩🏽🔬 was honored w this title today in the first National gathering of Native M.S/PhDs in STEM
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🚨Honored to share I’ve been selected as a 2023 Spencer Museum of Art
Faculty Fellow ✨🌻 my first faculty fellowship to continue community-engaged cultural burns 🌿
#AcademicTwitter
#NativeTwitter
#INDIGENOUS
#goodfire
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Taking my cultural fire lessons from the West to the Midwest 🔥 & the role of bison + good fire together. Did you know bison are Matriarchal? Females lead & direct grazing following fire 🤲🏽🌿
#goodfire
#rxfire
#research
#fire
#Indigenous
#NativeTwitter
@AcademicChatter
#ecology
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In our
#Indigenous
#Native
communities we are gifted blankets after significant accomplishments, for good wishes and gratitude. An honor and milestone 💛
#graduation2023
#Graduated
#PhD
#phdlife
@ucdavis
@AcademicChatter
#NativeTwitter
#academictwitter
#womeninSTEM
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This felt appropriate to repost.
Start of my first full week of fall on the tenure track at KU 👩🏽🏫👩🏽🔬
What do you study? At what University are you at?
Have a good semester/quarter all!
#AcademicChatter
#NativeTwitter
#Indigenous
#AcademicTwitter
Dripping Indigenous KU 🪶
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The Regents of The University of California
@ucdavis
awards the degree of PhD including successful submission of the doctoral dissertation
🛎️Ringing the grad bell! 🥳🎉👩🏽🎓💥
#PhD
#phdlife
#graduate
#Classof2023
@AcademicChatter
#NativeTwitter
#Indigenous
#WomenInSTEM
#Graduation
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Friendly reminder today that Indigenous peoples always had democratized societies, shared decision-making,-many led by Indigenous women.
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Proud prof moment & the ribbon skirts!!😍 I was Tribal College prof of the 2 lovely Indigenous women in the back (who both graduated!) and I’m honored to serve on Masters/ PhD committee to the young Indigenous woman to the right 🌿🌸
#INDIGENOUS
#NativeTwitter
#WomenInSTEM
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support is showing up to colleague’s academic talks - being the one nodding, making eye contact, & pitching questions non-Native audiences don’t or don’t want to ask (knowing your colleague is fully capable of answering 😉)
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Don’t get entrenched in damage-centered narratives about Native people. We have great joys and happiness in our communities too✨
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Teaching on the land type of day 🌿 I much prefer holding instruction outside, in relation to our more than Human beings 🌻🦋 also the beadwork 😍
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100 / 52,250 ⬅️ the # of Native Americans w PhDs in 2021 ‼️That made this moment significant🪶
Shíł (I am) Dr. Adams, Apache woman. I carry my father’s name & my mother’s clan🦋 For Indigenous peoples ✊🏽
#graduate
#phd
@AcademicChatter
#NativeTwitter
#AcademicTwitter
@ucdavis
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Indigenous ecologies ☀️
Perennial tree measurements 🌿🤲🏽
#academia
#WomenInSTEM
#Indigenous
#NativeTwitter
#goodfire
#research
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Hey new followers! Shí (I am) Melinda, Apache professor at
@UnivOfKansas
where I lead my lab in fire research 🔥🌿 come study/ collab with me!
Image: Sierra Nevada Journeys
#goodfire
#rxfire
#INDIGENOUS
#NativeTwitter
#AcademicTwitter
#AcademicChatter
#WomenInSTEM
#Science
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An Indigenous Professor hooding an Indigenous Master’s student! A powerful day for our Peoples. Congrats Mac and to all the families and our community 🪶🎓🌿
#graduation2024
#grad
#Indigenous
#AcademicTwitter
#IndigenousTwitter
@AcademicChatter
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Allies, as Native people we wear our hair long because our Ancestors couldn’t. Our women braid young men’s hair until they can themselves. In our societies, many wear their hair long to connect to generations before. It’s a cultural ceremony we still fight to keep alive.
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#WORLDSOILDAY
Oh, the cool thing about these entisols? Native women fire practitioners are literally creating soil layers with
#goodfire
on these formerly mined soilscapes 🌿🔥
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Making fire bundles for cultural burning 🌿🔥 excited to train the next gen on our science and stewardship 🫶🏽
#goodfire
#rxfire
#Indigenous
#WomeninSTEM
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Happy Earth Day 🌎 Earth Day means returning stewardship rights & responsibilities to Indigenous people🌱
#EarthDay
#Indigenous
#wildfire
#climate
#Earth
🪶
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Cultural burn in woodlands, grasslands, and prairie on Reclaimed lands 🌿🔥
#goodfire
#rxfire
#INDIGENOUS
#NativeTwitter
#wildfire
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Our first cohort of
@SloanFoundation
Indigenous STEM scholars ⭐️🔬🌿
@UnivOfKansas
(missing a few!) Honored to be mentoring 2, and on 4 of their MS/PhD committees. Indigenous excellence at KU 😊🌻
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Tribe listed ✅💛 Our new article is out! 🔥 An honor to write with so many scholars & esp
#GoodFire
scholars Dr. Frank Lake, Dr. Don Hankins, and Dr. Jonathan Long 🌿
#wildfire
#Indigenous
#Hawaii
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Adams, M.M. 2023. Indigenous Ecologies: Cultivating Fire, Plants, and Climate Futurity. Artemisia 49(2):20-29. Feel free to incorporate into readings and if you have students interested 🤲🏽 🌿🔥
#goodfire
#Indigenous
#NativeTwitter
#WomeninSTEM
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So timely! w all the
#wildfire
in Canada & air quality concerns on the east coast, super relevant info 🌿🔥I share briefly about fire policy alongside politicians & agency experts. Thanks
@semafor
#wildfire
#goodfire
#rxfire
#Indigenous
#NativeAmerican
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Forever the uni Prof in my finest Native jewelry so kin can recognize me💜👩🏽🏫
“you are safe with me”
“your brilliance will be protected”
“I see you, I am you”
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It is the work of my Ancestors to value myself as a Native woman, hold myself higher than w. society & patriarchally engrained value systems have trained peoples, even our own, to treat us.
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All are welcomed, online next week. Sharing Indigenous science internationally & one of many Indigenous journeys back to fire 🌿
#wildfire
#goodfire
#Indigenous
#science
#womeninSTEM
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Our Haskell community is in shock. Please lay medicine and offer strong prayer for our community and my Standing Rock sister & her family.
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If you’re writing about Indigenous Peoples climate change mental health, eco-anxiety, or climate anxiety 🌱 I have the pdf on my site, as it is paywalled 🚫
Our paper on Indigenous cultural fire is out 🔥🌿 we discuss “Ceremonial Fire”, climate change implications & moving from TEK to TEP, “Traditional Ecological Practices” ✍🏽 w Chairman Goode & Erica Tom
#goodfire
#rxfire
#INDIGENOUS
#AcademicTwitter
@AcademicChatter
#NativeTwitter
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15 Native graduates, an internal multi-year PhD fellowship winner, and 3️⃣!!
@NSF
GRFP fellowship award winners 🥳🎉 Our Indigenous scholars & community are so powerful. Congrats to all of the families & loved ones.
#Indigenous
#AcademicTwitter
#NativeTwitter
#NativeAmerican
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Tonight! Honored to connect with our Aboriginal relatives in this “Country, Climate, Colonialism” series “Decolonising fire” at
@AustCentreUoM
@UniMelb
. Friends, colleagues, students pls feel free to attend 🌿🔥
#goodfire
#wildfire
#Indigenous
#climate
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Excited to share I’ve received the 2024 New Faculty Research Development Grant
@UnivOfKansas
! My 1st as sole PI 🎉 Tysm to the office of research & colleagues for positively receiving my work w Tribes. Def something to celebrate🥳
#Indigenous
#Goodfire
#wildfire
#WomeninSTEM
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I’ll be bringing the cultural fire and research lens to this outstanding panel including firefighters, policy, and USFS experts 🤲🏽🌿🔥
#wildfire
#goodfire
#ClimateAction
#AcademicTwitter
#Indigenous
#women
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Thanks so much
@amonthei
. We talk about Humble
#fire
,
#climate
grief, &
#Indigenous
Ecological Practices 🌿🔥 Friends! give a listen and pls support the
@lwf_pod
patreon so Amanda can continue fire storytelling!
#rxfire
#goodfire
#wildfire
#california
#ecology
I learn a lot from every guest of
@lwf_pod
, but
@Scholar_Melinda
was on a different level. I learned about soliphilia (a deep love of place), solastalgia (the distress we feel when places we love are degraded in some way) as well as the concept of "humble fire," and so much more.
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care is also NOT taking on DEI initiatives. Sometimes we’ve got to “tap out” of the emotional and cultural labor this disproportionately places on us.
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An amazing leader & Indigenous sister scientist in community! Follow, support, & amplify the prolific work of
@doctora_nature
🌿💜
I am Dr. Jessica Hernandez (Maya Ch’orti’ & Binnizá), author of Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science. I am an Indigenous climate scientist from the Global Majority who contributes to the development of (2/5)
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Hey conference organizers! A step beyond land acknowledgements…commission Indigenous/Black/Chi artists (& give proper credit) to create conf materials, as our artwork mobilizes movements, supports artists, & amplifies our visibility ✨💥
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W the heaviness happening, I didn’t get a chance to show excitement, but one of our Indigenous Haskell-KU students I am proudly co-mentoring got the NSF GRFP! !🥳🎊🎉 they deserve to be celebrated and we will, once the time is right. Congrats to them + their family 💛
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Wow, such a generous conversation. A’shoog thanks Climfy for the space to share my work 🌿 ➡️ Tribal College ➡️ Indigenous Scholarship ➡️ Humble Fire ➡️ Traditional Ecological Practices🔥
#climate
#Indigenous
#goodfire
#WomenHistoryMonth
#gratitude
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Also Indigenous ecological fieldwork 💛 offering interventions in field training sci students including: recite, (why are you here), return, (plant and soil relative samples) and reverence.
#phdlife
#ScienceTwitter
#WomenInSTEM
#NativeAmerican
#phdchat
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Aw thank you for the beautiful photo
@ucdavis
& featuring our Native grad! My work and research continues as Asst Prof, follow for more
#wildfire
#goodfire
research and work w Native communities 🌿🔥🤲🏽
The Native American Graduation Celebration on Saturday, June 17, 2023 at the UC Davis Conference Center allowed students to celebrate their achievements and recognize their support systems. Congratulations to all our graduates! (1/3)
#UCDavisGrad
#GrowForth
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So good! Sis
@1NativeSoilNerd
🌵spoke about being an Indigenous soil scientist and the responsibility & ethics of working in community. Bonus: she calls attention to the importance of safety as Indigenous women who do field research. Thanks for this
@Ologies
🌿
If you are traveling to see family this
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
, might I suggest listening to the latest episodes of
@Ologies
?! There is an amazing episode with Robin Wall Krimmerer, and an episode up today with me talking about soils! Educational and fun listening 🥳🌵
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“I liked this part so much I spilled my coffee, see the paper?” 🤣 what co-writing with community looks like 💛
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The morning search started out so hopeful. Our younger ones need the strongest medicine right now. Pray with them, think of them. They matter, their friend mattered, our lives matter.
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Ah
#fire
friends, here is a link to the podcast episode 🔥🌿 I discuss my ideas on Humble fire, rematriating fire, and Traditional Ecological Practices (TEP) termed by Ron Goode in our paper.
#goodfire
#wildfire
#california
#Indigenous
#womeninSTEM
#NativeTwitter
#AcademicTwitter
Dr. Adams' energy for this work is unmatched and I was so excited to finally get her on the show. The episode can be found below or on Apple, Spotify etc:
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Awesome pod interview where we discuss fire culture in parts of the US then I share about my work with Indigenous cultural fire 🔥🌿🤲🏽
Subscribe to the substack and thanks for having me on.
#goodfire
#rxfire
#INDIGENOUS
#wildfire
#AcademicChatter
#NativeTwitter
New episode: On today’s show, we have a conversation with Dr. Melinda Adams.
@Scholar_Melinda
#wildfire
(Link in my b i o)
Melinda Adams, Ph.D. belongs to the N’dee San Carlos Apache Tribe and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science and
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@CAwildfireTF
@tonycalipen
@CAL_FIRE
@CalNatResources
I def recognize this place! That’s the
@cachecreekcnsrv
and that’s me, second from the left! 🔥🌿 yes to more Indigenous cultural fire that’s been supported by
@CAL_FIRE
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🙌🏽🌿😊 👏🏽 just here to hype
@1NativeSoilNerd
We are pleased to highlight this year’s
#2022NDiSTEM
keynote, featured, and panel speakers!
Join us in welcoming Dr. Lydia Jennings, our featured speaker!
To learn more about our speakers, visit our website
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@mapmakerdavid
Ah! Yep I study how cultural fire provides these same carbon and nutrient storing capacities and the ontology is very much not science validating Indigenous Knowlerge, but instead returning the gaze in that these are intelligences our Peoples already knew 🌿
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This was a wonderful interview. Thank you
@twyspy
for the time and space to share about
#goodfire
research and our recent paper!
#wildfire
#california
#climatechange
#Indigenous
#science
"My elders tell me, 'The landscape is so hungry for fire right now.' And they mean good fire—small-scale, prescribed and controlled burns versus the scorched destruction that
#wildfires
leave behind on our landscapes." -
@Scholar_Melinda
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Soo cool linking w other Native scholars!
Day 1 in Lawrence: Walked down Massachusetts Street, had breakfast, made a Target run, took a long nap, and then had dinner with
@Scholar_Melinda
—always a pleasure to meet Native faculty!
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Thank you
@JamesAlanOLOO
for the support esp our Native communities
#goodfire
#rxfire
#wildfire
#IndigenousPeoples
#Indigenous
@Scholar_Melinda
@AcademicChatter
'
#Indigenous
cultural fire' and the forest burning across Canada. What a timely and excellent research paper! Congrats, Dr.
@Scholar_Melinda
et al.
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Give a listen to this important pod!🎧
@ChristiansonAmy
has created such a needed stream to connect
#goodfire
practitioners. I’m on episode “fire futures” if you’re interested 🤲🏽🌿🔥 thnx Amy!!
#wildfire
#climate
#California
#rxfire
#INDIGENOUS
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day and solstice! Consider taking some time today to learn more about cultural fire practices from Indigenous peoples by listening to an episode of Good Fire - there’s 20 of them!
#goodfire
#fireback
#Indigenous
#wildfire
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Thanks so much
@AmandaLMolder
& for your work in the fire world 🔥🌿 also rec the piece from
@dwallacewells
!
Highly recommend a listen, esp for those who want to learn about/engage with
#goodfire
🔥
1) Today's episode of
@NYTimes
Daily, from
@dwallacewells
:
2) New
@lwf_pod
episode with
@Scholar_Melinda
on cultural burning & humble fire:
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@IgnaceLab
@gracie_crafts
@fireecology
@ubcforestry
ohhh! Please tell them I am a friendly face 😊 I'll try to swing by the poster session. My talk is Wednesday afternoon in the session I co-organized "Indigenous Fire Resurgence in California: Research, Praxis, and Collaboration."
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Full episode:
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Thank you for listening and sharing! 🔥
@voynich4
I think you’d really enjoy the latest
@HotshotWake
episode with
@Scholar_Melinda
…just a phenomenal discussion, and so important for people to digest and start to rethink their perception of fire. Listening right now. Goosebumps.
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Thanks so much for sharing
@firebobbc
! 🌿🔥
Great article showcasing the efforts of
@Scholar_Melinda
and other Indigenous fire practitioners. Cultural burning is key to fighting severe wildfires, Indigenous practitioners say
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Thank you for this and for being there 🌿🔥
inspiring stories and research from
@Scholar_Melinda
@nativehydro
& Dr. Andrea Reid on disrupting and transforming STEM with
#Indigenous
Knowledge
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@DeondreSmiles
Right?! The semester hasn’t even started and sadly I had a day of “I’m committed to other projects at this time and don’t have the capacity to take on this initiative” emails. At least I’m saying no at this point, tho?? Stay strong friend!
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A’shoog thank you for the support 🌿💛
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Thanks so much
@UCDavis_Kerlin
for sharing!
@ucdavis
@CapRadio
#goodfire
#culturalfire
#rxfire
#california
#wildfire
New laws give cultural burn practitioners legal status similar to burn bosses. “Cultural fires… are land stewardship lessons. They’re also cultural lessons that we’re getting back as Native people.”
@ucdavis
@Scholar_Melinda
Great story from
@mmsecaira
@capradio
!
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@MelissaLWalls
@AcademicChatter
Nice to meet you! I just finished the Health Policy Research Scholar, HPRS fellowship at Hopkins. Thank you sm for all of your work. Looking forward to staying connected.
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@IBJIYONGI
Humble self promotion, a piece I co-wrote addressing “solastalgia” climate grief -and discussing Indigenous cultural fire as healing.
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You’re awesome too
@vivivold
☺️ grateful to have met you. I Love what came together and that the coolest
@doctora_nature
is always looking out for community 🌿 honored to work with y’all 💛💚
She is totally cool and awesome, I had the honor of meeting her in person in UC Davis and even got to co-author a chapter about being a Indigenous researcher and our responsibilities.
Go follow her work!
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@doctora_nature
is such a force in our communities. Her family member is being welcomed home to the Ancestors. Please amplify, support, and give 🤲🏽 how you can.
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@JillFishPhD
Pls consider our recent paper “Solastalgia to Soliphilia: Cultural Fire, Climate Change, and Indigenous Healing” I can send a pdf of the paper 🙂
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@DeondreSmiles
Great to connect & over bison burgers! Enjoy your time in Lawrence and with Haskell, a very special place.
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Thanks for the support
@Weather_West
!
I strongly encourage folks in the
#CAfire
and climate world to read this work by Erica Tom,
@Scholar_Melinda
, and Ron Goode on Indigenous cultural fire and its role as a restorative practice--not only for the land itself, but also for practitioners.
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