Tending the Wild (Hour Long Special) | PBS SoCal
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- "Tending the Wild" shines light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. This series examines how humans are necessary to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment.
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This needs to be required for all California high schoolers. We need to be educated about our past and our present so that we can make better decisions for a more sustainable future... in which we are more connected to our environment and better prepared for climate change.
This is my third? time watching and it always reminds me how much more I have to learn. Really inspiring, thank you everyone involved for sharing something so intimate.
We have a wonderful Environmental Studies/Science/Ecosystems/Fire & Restoration program (certificates associate or bachelor's degree) at Feather River College in Quincy CA.
It is a sad history of abuse, disrespect, and genocide. Thanks to everyone and especially the indigenous people for maintaining such an important culture and wisdom.
This was awesome to see. Nothing like my people showing others the way. Also nice to see my father picking berries. "Just add a little salt...Mmm."
Hello Josh, i am a Fresnan and would love to get into contact with some of the people in this video that the North Fork Mono. I wish to speak with them regarding their botanical knowledge and use of land. You can reach out to me on my youtube page or send an email to 'seniorstinky@gmail.com'.
Thank you for your time.
Most inspiring and giving hope for survival with dignity.
I've listened to this documentary many time since 2017 and it always brings me something meaningful to think about. Thanks for this.
I watched this for a class about California history. It's pretty awesome I have to say. I hope natives can recover, retain, and expand upon their traditions as time goes on.
Thank you for making and sharing this, we need more documentaries and education about indigenous cultures 🌱❤️
Thanks for the gathering of people and stories. I am disenfranchised Elem Pomo and that is a neglect too, the tribes disregarding their own people.
What this group is doing is so important. Education for both non-indigenous & indigenous people I believe is key, so that as many individuals as possible are able to understand why these plants are so important, how to tend them & sustainably gather them, as well as educate others about them. Praise to them for being inclusive with as much trauma as they've had to endure due to colonization. Coming together to teach about the sacred medicine that Mother Earth gives us is an absolute gift, not to be appropriated and used for profit, but to further the health & connection to Earth for generations to come.
Such a wonderful video, rewatching
It's wonderful to have a deep relationship with our living world. It's growing for us nomadic o. Horseback with each passing year! Excited to share these beautiful ways on my Channel!
Amazing thank you for sharing!!
Outstanding! I had heard of the practice of using controlled fire to renew the environment and was challenged to find information from native tribes. This is full of that kind of knowledge. Priceless.
This is fantastic. Thank you for sharing this with the world.
We all need to get in tune with nature, with the land wherever we are instead of poisoning it. Why complain about acorns falling in the garden now I know how to use them! Thank you for this insight and I hope more areas will tell us what they do and how they use plants.
In time we will all add to this knowledge of how to live within nature. Insight from Scotland, insight from Japan. We are a multicultural people now, from so many lands, trying to learn how to live with our sanity intact. We struggle to contain the corporate beasts recent arrivals have inadvertently unleashed. We will all contribute in time. Thank you for sharing this bright reminder of where we are going.
Mary
its not about adding this knowledge as a way to stave off disaster...you can't keep the "stolen land" and then steal the knowledge and call it good. Literally the settler colonizer culture and lifeways that European capitalists forced everyone to adjust to is ABOUT genocide, domination and destruction of the living world for profit. Indigenous cultures and lifeways are about affirming human lives and continuing the abundance and resilience of the living world for generations to come. You can't make the former a little bit more palatable...they are fundamentally different ways of being and existing in the world. We can either respect and honor the Indigenous peoples right to govern these lands and make rightful reparations, or we will face the deadly consequences. The millions and millions of dying trees and salmon...why do we pretend it doesn't matter? How much worse does it have to get before we know we are killing them, that people are dying with them? How can we look at this and say "let's just keep going down this path"
Lol, 2 years out from your comment and the world is breaking down 😭
Thank you so much! I can hardly wait to see the rest of the series. I truly have enjoyed exploring I'm learning so much with the generosity of the people in the show. Having been born and grown up in California both coast and Inland, it's familiar and wonderful to see all the things of my childhood. I used to grind up acorns with rocks not knowing what I was doing but here it looks so delicious. I thank you for sharing the rich and Powerful traditions and I hope we can all work to have California back to it's beautiful source and wild stewardship.
I’ve missed this kind of documentary 😊
Beautiful!
This is amazing in a much better articulator argument than I've been making to my Western Scientific friends who don't understand traditional indigenous knowledge encompasses all of Western Canon philosophy science and many others in ways to follow the Earth's example of closed systems rather than the Western philosophy of separation to understand and rebuild because everything is simply a large machine
Excellent programme.
That was an amazing presentation
If you guys like this I recommend the documentary Gather!
Thank you
Beautiful production! Thank you to everyone involved in creating and sharing it.
"Tending the Wild" M. Kat Anderson's book! I see she is thanked in the film's credits. Wondering if I could show this to fellow students? Sharing her work today and this film is so well done!
Die medizinische Kräuterkundlerin Sage LaPena war mein Forschungsthema, und ich kam, um mir dieses Programm anzuschauen, das sie geschrieben hatte. Dann erregte dieser Artikel von Ihnen meine Aufmerksamkeit und ich schaute mir das Buch an und fand es. Sie haben zu meiner Forschung beigetragen. Vielen Dank von ganzem Herzen.
Very nice documentary!
I am definitely no expert but it seems like the value of the intelligent and sophisticated use in the traditional knowledge way of burning it seems like me cannot be underestimated
I really appreciate this documentary, really an eye opener!
Great doc. on benefits of traditional ecological knowledge, enlightening .
I want to own my own farm one day and run it like the ancient peoples that have such a connectedness to nature that I am envious of. I grew up in NYC. I am surrounded by the extreme opposite.
This was beautiful, thank you.
I it was good to see perish made me miss Paula all over again my favorite cousin
Love this entire series!
we forgot to be close to nature- the simple task that has been for many thousand years
Lol, speak for yourself and those you know.
My people have always valued caring for the earth....my people indigenous and my family.
Excellent piece ~ Shared ;->
I deeply appreciate this wonderful documentary :) and I also have to think the part of the drought/destructive fire situation is the overall treatment of the nature in California especially the agricultural practices of modern times in White Society just draining every ounce of water from the land and misguided agricultural practices :(
Nice work!!!
Beautiful
100/100
“The white invasor destroyed everything they saw but didn’t touch what they couldn’t see” Juan Matus (indigenous shaman)
Askwalii 🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️
@ 33:55 A cast iron pot or skillet probably can. The only other pot I can think of would be a pure copper one, but those are insanely expensive.
yes!!!
Oh yeah I have seen the fire TK segment of this special at the Autry Museum in Griffith Park. Cool stuff.
So much lost, so much to restore.
Anyone know of more resources on these topics? I feel like it’s soooo important, but no idea how to find things. I stumbled upon this.
ME: Why am I alive?
OLD WOMAN: Because everything else is.
ME: No. I mean the purpose.
OLD WOMAN: That is the purpose. To learn about your relatives.
ME: My family?
OLD WOMAN: Yes. The moon, stars, rocks, trees, plants, water, insects, birds, mammals. Your whole family. Learn about that relationship. How you’re moving through time and space together. That’s why you’re alive. ~ Richard Wagamese
To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you
And know there is more
That you can't see, can't hear
Can't know except in moments
Steadly growing, and in languages
That aren't always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty. ~ 'Eagle Poem' by Joy Harjo
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At 32:34, did she say her people chased another tribe of their land for the sole purpose of access to acorns? Why not trade? What happened to the other band?
I was thinking that too, definitely caught me off guard. I'd like to learn more about what happened.
well, people will be people, we have all fought against each other from the dawn of time. think of how many wars and conflicts occur every year. it's just human nature
No wonder the original firebenders from the Avatar series were inspired by Native Americans
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Cultural burning is an ancient practice done in parts of the old world too. I know this has been done in India in places, f.ex. in the Indus Valley of Sindh, Pakistan I saw farmers doing this growing up. Early European colonialists not even trying to learn from local people is just crazy.
It was also done in Europe before the industrial revolution. The problem is corporate ownership of people, products and land.
@@namedrop721 No. The problem is what the human values and carries within.
Indigenous people always saw connections with every living thing as part of life, the great circle.
European man saw the world as his to destroy, for his and only his benefit...
His 172 core
What berries are they harvesting at 15:15 ? Man, I'd love to check out their ranch and pick their brains, I'm trying to do pretty much the same thing but with zero cultural base to draw from.
camazotzz they are called sour berries. I asked him last night.
thanks! so it's Rhus trilobata? I have that in my area, neat
Camazotzz, I agree... Rhus trilobata. Also called "lemonade berry" for the tart drink you can make with them. Be sure to distinguish them carefully from similar-looking poison oak!!
T: you need to rake the forest better!!
It has ONLY to do with ancient technology. I wish you peace and plenty.
A professor told me that Indigenous knowledge is ''non-science''. Yeah, well...tell that to all the people who've lost their homes & more from northern to southern California.
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We've all become lazy and just depend on Walmart and grocery chain stores.
wanna sprite cranberry?
Cash refund on the horizon-stay tuned
Darker Natives Please that’s more actual, or universal have all the colors of the world in it.