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that yououldant for yo family. on o property th my grandrents, we havthe kalo the brearuit. we also had bananas. several varieties bananas a little bit of everything. (soft muc) this rht here, thiss 'olena tos it's 'ena, but th's turmec. rit here. th one has blossom anthat's pt of the ging family. so tre's you brearuit rig there. you can e some othe youn fruits srting inn it. and thuhi, or m... that vi that's creepi up on t tree. th're actuly woing withach othe
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(birdshirping) so you can see the diverse planting. so you've got the wauke, the paper mulberry. right he we've g a, the t plants. and wee got thbreadfru. nanas. we hadhat was own as thereadfruibelt, ich ran r a good0 miles. it was aleast a lf a milwide. but then with the coffee industry, a lot of those trees were taken down. i think the differences with monocropping is you've just got this one crop for acres and acres. when i was growing up and my grandparents got into coffee,
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there wasn't what we know now is a coffee borer bug. you lose youcrop or good percenta. d we belve that uld ssibly hpen to oer crops possiblyreadfrui that oncyou get infecti in and that the onlthing that's gwing oyour prorty, it gonna gfrom onetreet to theext to t next. and prty soon e entire fid could infiltred. whers withhe old.. the old stems whe you ha.. more derse cro in between ur major say ke the badfrt. it'supportineach oth. so youe got otr crops coming in at difrent tim of the ar. (soft sic)
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- the americanndusial complex spent 130 years ruining the capacity of the native americans, all in an attempt to create genocide on a group of people. so it's time for the united states to own up to what it's been responsible for and to honor the ways of the people who re on thland bore yo and incoorate the ways in our eveday livi. (chattering) (radio static crackling) (chattering) - is that saback here still? - oh, ere did. rodneyut it on e of therucks. - [m] he's pbably got itn mine. - inaliforniin a lot oflaces, tre is th... ere's a t of feaaround fireprescrib fire, even fe in genal, and righully so.
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it'snderstdable. a lot oour achings aditionay you builan underanding arou the wor around u, and you arn how live with fire and rk with re. d it hel you, th moreou know out it, the ss feathatou have. oft music) - the rest svice is starti to hearhe land screaminback at u. everytng's burng up. hey, y got to somethi. you cat just ctrol everythi like th. you n't st take it over and y nobodyan touchhis. and u can't st tell us thawe can do what we've been dog re for aong time ause it'gonna me everythg up. so we' allix the wod people d we havceremoni for tha so we k-1 firighters ve this le. en we co out on e hill, have a g job too
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as fars respecng thplace that we' in. that acn standsome back oro that hels comeack good or anyasket mang materls, any ises that ve to do wi safety and where you' living at it'sll revolng aroundour faly, and at's our rspectivon it. (soft sic) - windpeed zerto two from theouth utheast d variab. (gentlmusic) - the trees e all fire-apted tre rning fr the begiing of te. they become a fire adapted forest. most of our gathering materials are medicines.
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the redwoods and some of the pines and stuff reque fire tgo throu them in ord to openp and depot their eds. yocan starto see t diffence in e trees. you see as we srt going thugh here 're gonnget these inditor specs to tl us wha we're dog right. e giant lamander i've sn species that'd nevereen the rer before, exceptn our bu units after weurned th. it's prey cool. add m up! - en] holdg. (ctting) (fire crkling) - at's theesired effes right re. yosee how 's alllong the d of theorest? couming thleaf litr and thdead andown, not afcting the trs tomuch rig there.
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ing go wor and thmore preribed fi we get on theround aroundur commuties, the safewe are. you ke away e avlable fu loading, en wildfe comes ound, there'not thatuel loadg to jusfeed it a rip uncorollably wh it hitshese are thatave beenreated ere's t enoughuel feed th wildfir and 'll go o and the ars, and wcan defe that. (soft muc) wh it's oped up li this, eldersan stillome inere and collt those resoces right the. and if thecan't gein there are th knowl with th ki, it getlost in me. so when we can open stuff up, they can get in here and teach the younger generations the traditional practices, and they can get in there d harvesthose cultural and natural resources, that kwledge ner gets st, ju keeps recycli d repeatg itself and it all goowork. (cttering)
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(clappin - forest service! ciba karuk ibe pas, natiol parks. (claing) - folling the oke stard out, it start with th grp basketeavers. and th joined gether and wereavinissues with gting betr quality terials. soollowinghe smoke ce from folwing themoke where it s burnt. so iyou wentollowing the ars of theurn, you we followi the smoke,nd then were able use tho marials fr there, 'cse the hvesting om those rticularaterials is a l strongefor us. grs strong, grows raighter and use 'emor differenlike babbaskets for e hazel icks, so ihas be sothing stng
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at we'reonna ep our baby (chatting) - oman] shter stic and ur longesticks, and you' go throh this process at i'm dng rightow ich is jt peelinit back, because at you wt to do y want toatch tho peeled bk ends tether. so if yolook closely this baet u'll seehat, wn the cter, thers actual two stks the, anthey're st kind of joine d i willurposefuy try toaneuver e sticks so that ey're la flat. - the fi for the ar grasss also comes ck a lottronger if we go pick e yearfter a fe. 's stronr for oubaskets. any of e colo our basts, itl come bk ite a bistronger d we canull on ito ma our basts finer finer wo with th. it reallimportan while we pick and burn that we're dng it cuurally, that we' doing itn our prers bere we gout and pk. and thatedicine es to when leave i the dicine gs in it wh we haveur baby it, so it l serv a purpo. (chaering)
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ocks tapng) itas probay maybe nce i was a by that ate them i justlways rember lovingcorns. eat thean oak. ey're thsweetest out ofll of thacorns (gentlmusic) (cttering) long, ng, long ng, longime ago, veryeginningf us, we didt have ps and pa like this, or the prane cooktove. we had toigure ouhow we wergonna co our foo and th ihow we ck it. and the's nuients th come fr the roc. it'scorn sou
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(fircracklin (gentle music) - so really world renewal ceremonies, we don't really look at it as religion. we look at our survival. and what are you doing to survive on this landscape over time? you're managing it. (crickets chirping) lo at the rs on thisne right here. they're arting treally co out rig here. sohis was anted inuly, anin anoth week oro i'll bat a harst these and takehem home aneat thesones.
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but at's a hlthy plant ght ther thiss about 160 days withouhaving a rain. (sofmusic) our farmg is deeinto r spiritl belief en we dot farm, u have t loss of the nutritnal benets of all the crops we produce out here. the fact of the matter is the women, they don't have the stuff to makthe pikin. (bright guitar mic) th don't he the traditional ops need to p on the ble. (chatting) therwas a dissertaon looki at so of the feings we have wn we don farm.
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and lot of i was pshologica and en you'rnot out re rking thland andour farm and beg a trueteward, u se your nse of bance. it's almt like a the plantsut here, theye become ke my coselor. you kn what i an? i'm ab to talko th and spe to them and th show mehings. d so i'mot depennt up, like ised be, i us to drina hell oa lot. i don'do that more. nativeeople who ve these sutance abe proble is a dect relt of bei relocat, losing their lelihood, forgetng who ty are, and th go in tfind somethinto fill ose void at woulde otherwe be filled hunting by raing this. now that they n't have that or themove awafrom tha you ha these b problem reservaons now, whereas if you were to use these traditional systems, you're able to plug all those voids in.
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all that loss of identity that was taken away from you, you're able to bring it back. but we need to do it sooner rather than later, because once we forget these things, then we forget them. - wh do we wt it? - no - what dwe want? change! - wh do we wt it? - w! - what dwe want? change! - peop today a all excid about imate chge and righully so. peop are risg up and panickg in a sse. they rognize tt th is not stainabl at's a gd thing at that' happin that action, but 's gonnae imperave, and it iimperati, at theseeople inhese movents at are binng to gr... lo for andccept guidce from indenous pele who knowow to... adapt and respond to a changing environment. anwe're stl doing today.
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