Louise, formerly of MIT and Tufts University, is author of Undoing the Silence, a book about writing. A student of Thich Nhat Hanh and a fifth-generation Californian, she is working on a history of family, land and colonization in the Napa Valley. See more at www.louisedunlap.net.
How White Colonizers Set Us Up for Uncontrollable Wildfires
But I want us to ask Indigenous people to take the reins themselves and help get us back on track with fire. I want them to take care of their own lands once again, as the Karuk people are doing up north on the Klamath River.
December 3, 2018