Inter-Tribal Ecocultural Exchange

Published February 21, 2023

Check out these photos from Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge Ecocultural Education Days last week with the Tribal Youth Ecological Forestry Training Program.

During a three-day inter-tribal exchange, a dozen tribal trainees and crew leaders employed by Lomakatsi visited Petroglyph Point in the Lava Beds National Monument, the Kosealekte Band area and Pit River Tribe XL Reservation, and the Northern Paiute Gidutikad Band Fort Bidwell Indian Reservation.

To conclude their 18-week program, the ecocultural education days were dedicated to subsistence lifestyle skills and indigenous food sovereignty, natural resource career pathways, cultural fire and wildfire management, and sharing of knowledge between Northern Paiute, Ajumawi-Atsuge (Pit River), Klamath, and Modoc tribal peoples to build inter-tribal workforce capacity for landscape-scale ecosystem restoration.

Thank you to staff from the U.S. Forest Service Modoc National Forest and Bureau of Indian Affairs Division of Forestry and Wildland Fire Management for joining us and sharing about their careers in natural resources.

We’re so proud of this team for all their hard work and grateful to everyone who supported this cohort to the end of their program!

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Mission

Restore ecosystems and the sustainability of communities, cultures, and economies.

We acknowledge that Lomakatsi operates programs across the ancestral lands of aboriginal peoples who lived and live in the watersheds of the Willamette River, Rogue River, Klamath River, Umpqua River, and Pit River, in what is now called Oregon and California. From sagebrush hillsides and mixed conifer forests, to oak woodlands and riverine systems, we offer our respect, recognition, and gratitude to the original past, present, and future inhabitants of these landscapes, to whom we dedicate this work.