And soon dancing flames and pungent smoke rose from the slope high above the distant Klamath River. "Guide our hands as we bring fire back to the land," she intoned before crouching and igniting dead leaves and needles carpeting the ground. David Goldman/AP Show More Show Less 2 of36 Elizabeth Azzuz stands in prayer before leading a cultural training burn on the Yurok reservation in Weitchpec, Calif., Thursday, Oct. But state and federal agencies that long banned "cultural burns" are coming to terms with them and even collaborating as the wildfire crisis worsens. West are making progress toward restoring their ancient practice of treating lands with fire, an act that could have meant jail a century ago. Azzuz, who is Yurok, along with other native tribes in the U.S. 1 of36 Elizabeth Azzuz stands in prayer with a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches before leading a cultural training burn on the Yurok reservation in Weitchpec, Calif., Thursday, Oct.
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