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Nez Perce Tourism, LLC, received the Best Cultural Heritage Experience award at the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association conference. Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation hosted the conference in late October 2021. (Photo by Patty Talahongva, Indian Country Today)

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Elizabeth Azzuz stands in prayer with a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches before leading a cultural training burn on the Yurok reservation in Weitchpec, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. Azzuz, who is Yurok, along with other native tribes in the U.S. West are making progress toward restoring their ancient practice of treating lands with fire, an act that could have meant jail a century ago. But state and federal agencies that long banned "cultural burns" are coming to terms with them and even collaborating as the wildfire crisis worsens. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

For tribes, 'good fire' a key to restoring nature and people

Over several days in October, about 80 acres on Yurok land were set aflame in a program that teaches ancient skills of treating land with fire