Purpose of Review

Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management in North America. With a focus on the boreal region of North America, this paper provides a review of the existing literature documenting Indigenous voices and the historical relationship of Indigenous peoples in northern North America to fire and landscapes that burn.

Recent Findings

Early research on the topic explored how Indigenous people used fire in the boreal forest, with most research coming out of case studies in northern Alberta. Emerging research in the last two decades has broadened the geographic focus to include case studies in Alaska, Ontario, Labrador, and other regions in North America. This broadening of focus has shown that the diversity of Indigenous peoples in North America is reflected in a diversity of relationships to fire and landscapes that burn. Of note is an emerging interest in Indigenous fire knowledge in the wake of settler colonialism.

Summary

Indigenous peoples in the boreal forest have applied fire on their landscapes to fulfill numerous objectives for thousands of years. More than a tool, Indigenous peoples in the boreal view fire as an agent, capable of movement, destruction and creation, acting on the landscape to create order, within a living, connected environment. Unfortunately, restrictions on the application of Indigenous fire knowledge and practice initiated during early colonial times remains a contemporary challenge as well.

中文翻译：

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以土著声音为中心：火灾在北美北方森林中的作用

审查目的

在北美的火灾管理中，原住民的观点常常被忽视。本文重点关注北美北部地区，回顾了记录原住民声音以及北美北部原住民与火灾和燃烧景观的历史关系的现有文献。

最近的发现

关于该主题的早期研究探讨了土著人民如何在北方森林中使用火，大多数研究来自艾伯塔省北部的案例研究。过去二十年的新兴研究扩大了地理重点，包括阿拉斯加、安大略、拉布拉多和北美其他地区的案例研究。这种关注范围的扩大表明，北美原住民的多样性反映在与火灾和燃烧景观的关系的多样性上。值得注意的是，在定居者殖民主义之后，人们对土著火灾知识产生了兴趣。

概括

几千年来，北方森林中的原住民一直在他们的土地上放火，以实现众多目标。北方地区的原住民将火视为一种工具，而不仅仅是一种工具，它能够移动、破坏和创造，作用于景观，在生机勃勃、相互联系的环境中创造秩序。不幸的是，早期殖民时期对土著消防知识和实践的应用的限制仍然是当代的挑战。