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‘Spirit Run’: A new memoir details one man’s journey to reconnect with nature and his Indigenous heritage

Books

In his memoir, “Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land,” Noe Álvarez shares how the communal run helped him reclaim a relationship with the land and reconnect with his parents’ migration and life of labor in the agricultural fields of the northwest.

A team of researchers in northern Australia have documented kites and falcons, “firehawks,” intentionally carrying burning sticks to spread fire. It'ss just one example of Western science catching up to indigenous traditional knowledge.

It’s taken thousands of years, but Western science is finally catching up to indigenous knowledge

Science