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Upcoming at Oakland Museum of California
History Exhibition

Good Fire: Tending Native Lands

November 7 at 12pm – May 31

At Oakland Museum of California

Downtown Oakland, Oakland

Check out the fire-scarred tree samples
Features work by three Native artists
Learn about prairie restoration efforts

See fire through Native eyes: not destruction, but healing. This exhibition explores how Northern California tribes have used controlled "good fire" for millennia to tend the land, featuring artworks, fire-scarred tree samples, and stories of ecological restoration.

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  • Indigenous-led exhibition
  • ecological art
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  • environmental justice
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