Reigniting Relationships: Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Community Resilience

About this episode

This episode explores Indigenous fire stewardship and its role in community resilience through personal stories and reflections.

🔥 Reigniting Relationships: Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Community Resilience with Amy Cardinal Christianson, Alvin First Rider and Jordan Melograna Good Fire Podcast — Special Live Episode This episode of Good Fire was recorded in front of a live audience of 300 people at the Fire and Ice Symposium during the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, on Treaty 7 territory. What unfolds is not just a conversation about fire, but a gathering of stories—about land, memory, responsibility, and the work of rebuilding relationships that were deliberately broken. Resources Video from this episode: Reignition: Bringing Good Fire Back to the Land Alvin First Rider Jordan Melograna Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival Indigenous Leadership Initiative Blood Tribe Land Management Block by Block Creative Kainai Nation ignites the first Indigenous fire guardians program in Canada Reigniting Cultural Burning with the Blood Tribe Fire Guardians Show Notes Host Dr. Amy Cardinal Christianson (Métis, Treaty 8) is joined by Alvin First Rider of the Blood Tribe (Blackfoot Confederacy), along with visual storyteller Jordan Melograna from the Indigenous Leadership Initiative…

People in this episode

Host: Amy Cardinal Christianson

Guests: Alvin First Rider, Jordan Melograna

Topics covered

• Indigenous fire stewardship
• community resilience
• cultural continuity
• land and memory
• healing through fire

Keywords

• Indigenous fire stewardship
• community resilience
• cultural burning
• good fire
• land management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blood Tribe, Indigenous Leadership Initiative, Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

Places: Treaty 7 territory, Kainai Nation

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