Addressing Jurupa Valley regarding the fires and suggesting indigenous practice of cultural burning.
My name is Sukhbir Singh Gill, a human and civil rights advocate running for Riverside county supervisor in district 2 , i want to acknowledge we are on occupied indigenous land and I want to bring to the attention of city council the amount of fires we face and very close to residences I’m sure you know , but a possible solution of cultural burning.
Cultural burning is an Indigenous land management practice of intentionally setting low-intensity, controlled fires to restore ecosystem health, reduce wildfire risk, and cultivate resources for food and ceremonial use. Passed down for millennia, it views fire as "medicine" for the land rather than a destructive force
Core Purposes of Cultural Burns
Resource Cultivation: Burning clears underbrush and stimulates the growth of specific plants used for traditional weaving, food, and medicine (e.g., straight hazel shoots for basketry).
Hazard Reduction: By regularly removing excessive dead biomass and forest debris, these burns prevent the buildup of fuel that causes catastrophic, uncontrollable wildfires.
Wildlife Management: The fires create diverse habitats and new growth that attract and sustain local animal and bird populations.
Cultural Connection: It serves as an active way for Indigenous communities to care for their ancestral territories and maintain intergenerational practices.
The indigenous of the world from here turtle island to the ingenious of Panjab the itaukei in Fiji and the Pasifika to the aboriginal in Australia to Africa to the amazon we are the stewards of the land, we consider earth our mother and not a forest management issue.
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