Indigenous communities in B.C. and California promote cultural burns for disaster mitigation
In the heat of the L.A. fires, Jeremiah Louis is reminded of 2021 when fire surrounded the Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB), his home community. “In the beginning, I was feeling helpless,” he said. In the years leading up to the White Rock Lake wildfire, some members of the OKIB took it upon themselves to practise fire…