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Tending The Wild
Tending the Wild shines light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. This documentary examines how humans are necessary to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment.
Watch "Tending Nature," a series shining a light on how Indigenous knowledge can inspire a new generation of Californians to find a balance between humans and nature.
Co-produced by KCETLink Media Group and the Autry Museum, this six-part multimedia series and one-hour documentary special are presented in association with California Continued, a groundbreaking exhibition now on view at the Autry.
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Tending Nature Season 1 (Trailer)
"Tending Nature" shines a light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California,
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Tending Nature Season 1 (Trailer)
"Tending Nature" shines a light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California,
Full Episodes
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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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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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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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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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E5: Gathering Medicine - How Native Medicinal Practices Are Thriving Today
Episode 5
Native herbalism has a long history and continues to be practiced today. This video explores a holistic approach to health and how the environment can inform healthy living.
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Clips & Segments
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The knowledge of native people about plants and their uses is open to everyone if they are willing to learn. Hoopa tribe descendant, Kat High, talks about the need to establish gardening areas in local communities.
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Cahuilla Artist Gerald Clarke Jr. honors his Native American heritage as well as makes a comment about the alcoholism and diabetes that plague native communities. Meet Gerald Clarke Jr and his native weaving creations.
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Herbalist Sage LaPena explains that a resurgence of traditional medicinal practices in Native communities and in popular culture often leads to a lack of access by Native communities to needed plants.
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Craig Torres of Chia Cafe Collective talks about how educators train modern society to phase out the harmful elements of their diets.
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Upcoming Airdates
Articles
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Tribe's vegetable gardens died during long repair dispute.
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If you smell something burning this week as you visit Sequoia National Park, that might just be two centuries of cultural misunderstanding going up in smoke.
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"Our tradition says that if we don’t catch salmon, they’ll stop coming back.”
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Here's one answer to LA's "emergency" record snowmelt: give Native people access to their lands.
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To call Native peoples the "original environmentalists" is to mischaracterize their actual relationship to the land.
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The concept of wilderness as unpopulated land assumes Native people are either subhuman or nonexistent. It needs to be rethought.
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