Indigenous Culture

Learning Fire with Charity Battise

Learning Fire with Charity Battise

We’re Back! Good Fire Season 3 is officially coming your way! This is a short teaser episode to let you all know we have finally finished recording.

Charity Battise is a young Indigenous Fire Steward learning their craft. Amy and Charity met at the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network Event and they talked about Charity’s work with her Nation. Charity is a part of the Alabama Coushatta Tribe of Texas and part of the Nature Conservancies Indigenous Peoples Burning Network.

Welcome to Good Fire

Welcome to Good Fire

Wildfire is often portrayed in the media as being ‘destructive’ and ‘catastrophic’. In this podcast we explore the concept of fire as a tool for ecological health and cultural empowerment by Indigenous people around the globe. Good Fire is a term used to describe fire that is lit intentionally to achieve specific ecological and cultural goals. Good fire is about balance.