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"Tending Nature" shines a light on the environmental knowledge of Indigenous peoples across California by exploring how the state's Native peoples have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia. The series examines how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to find a balance between humans and nature.
Traveling across the state, the series allows viewers to hear first-hand from Native communities engaged in contemporary projects that revive their culture and inform western sciences. In this season, the Tolowa Dee-ni’, Ohlone, the Pit River tribes, and the multi-tribal Potawot Health Village, generously give their time to guide content about subjects ranging from ocean toxicity, food deserts, traditional sweats, tribal hunting and decolonizing cuisine.
Produced in partnership with the Autry Museum of the American West, which began with the award-winning documentary "Tending the Wild."
Full Episodes
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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
S1 E1: Protecting The Coast with the Tolowa Dee-ni'
This episode journeys to the Smith River near the Oregon border to discover how the Tolowa Dee-ni’ are reviving traditional harvesting of shellfish while working with state agencies to monitor toxicity levels.
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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
S1 E2: Decolonizing Cuisine with Mak–‘amham
This episode explores how two Ohlone chefs Louis Trevino and Vincent Medina are revitalizing Ohlone language, food practices and adapting them for a modernist palate.
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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
S1 E3: Tribal Hunting with the Pit River Peoples
This episode explores how members of the Pit River Tribe in Northeast California are reviving traditional hunting practices and embracing Community Science initiatives to preserve and monitor wild elk and deer populations.
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Tending Nature
Tending Nature
S1 E4: Healing The Body with United Indian Health Services
Native peoples in rural areas have started several food sovereignty programs across California. The most prominent of these is United Indian Health Services’ Potawot Community Garden.
Clips & Segments
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Tending Nature
The Potawot Health Village at United Indian Health Services serves as a comprehensive place of healing with Western doctors, a Native medicine man, a sweat lodge and a community garden.
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Man has made it more difficult for baby antelope to cross their natural path, according to Ray Alvarez of the Hewisdawi Band.
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The Pit River tribes are using citizen science and traditional management to monitor juniper, antelope and other wildlife to bring it back to balance.
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Tending Nature
Representing their culture with slow, seasonal food and ancestral recipes makes it inarguable that Indigenous Ohlone presence remains in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Articles
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The land now known as Ku’wah-dah-wilth Restoration Area is a place of wellness, of healing, of cultural resiliency and it’s a wellspring of Indigenous food sovereignty.
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Tending Nature
Alarmed over the decline of a traditional food source, the Pit River Tribe acts to restore grasslands and traditional hunting practices.
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Tending Nature
The founders of mak’amham and Café Ohlone in the Bay Area want to bring back Indigenous ways and honor the ancestors who preserved traditions in the face of colonization.
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The Tolowa Dee-ni’ people, who have fished and tended the Northwestern California coast for time immemorial, are collaborating with western scientists at state agencies to monitor ocean toxicity in shellfish.
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Tending Nature
Tribal rights have hardly been addressed in marine environments but the the work of the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and the North Coast tribes creates a critical space of dialogue about the health of the ocean, which impacts our collective well-being.
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Tending Nature
Across the world, Indigenous peoples have lived in their ancestral homelands for thousands of years. To have their perspective and their traditional knowledge is key when confronting contemporary environmental challenges.
Watch Tending the Wild
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Tending the Wild
E1: Cultural Burning - How Native American Peoples Use Fire to Rejuvenate the Land
Episode 1
Suppressed for over a century, indigenous cultural burning is still practiced today and holds important lessons for managing the threat of destructive wildfires.
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tending the wild
Tending the Wild
E2: Keeping the River - How the Klamath River's Native Peoples Maintain Their Relationship With Salmon
Episode 2
The Yurok, Karuk, and Hupa peoples have maintained a close relationship with the Klamath River. They have secured traditional fishing rights and mobilized against the threats of dams and agriculture, setting an example for Native environmental rights.
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tending the wild
Tending the Wild
E3: Weaving Community - How Native Peoples are Rediscovering Their Basketry Traditions
Episode 3
Despite barriers to access, traditional gathering and basket weaving is still practiced across California as a new generation is rediscovering and preserving its cultural heritage.
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Tending the Wild
E4: Decolonizing the Diet - How Native Peoples are Reclaiming Traditional Foods
Episode 4
The Chia Cafe Collective is working to revive Native food practices and raise awareness about the threats to native plants in Southern California.
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