The Oak Fire last year threatened the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation's way of life. Now the tribe is restoring ancient heritage sites and cultural practices in collaboration with local agencies.
. The tribe is headquartered in Mariposa, California, a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills close to the national park.
The Miwuk people have used these indentations in the rocks to grind traditional medicines and foods like acorns for thousands of years."And to think that something that has withstood the test of time for millennia can be destroyed by one fire sweeping through, is a sign that something is changing, and something devastating is happening," said Fouch-Moore.Indigenous communities have long understood cultural heritage encompasses more than historic buildings and museum artifacts.
"That was the last permanent occupation by the first people of Yosemite still living in their ancestral homelands," she said.With the loss of their homelands came the loss of their cultural heritage, such as the"One of the first things the government outlawed was cultural burning," said the Southern Sierra Miwuk's Lerma.
In recent years, the National Park Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection have started to collaborate with Indigenous communities to returnMembers of local tribes have helped to set prescribed burns in Yosemite National Park, among other wooded areas. The process involves rubbing pieces of wood together to generate sparks instead of using modern drip torches.
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