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  2. Native American use of fire in ecosystems - Wikipedia

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    Light burning is also been called "Paiute forestry," a direct but derogatory reference to southwestern tribal burning habits. [52] The ecological impacts of settler fires were vastly different than those of their Native American predecessors. Cultural burning practices were functionally made illegal with the passage of the Weeks Act in 1911. [53]

  3. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    American historic carpentry. The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America. American historic carpentry is the historic ...

  4. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of the lumber industry in the United States spans from the precolonial period of British timber speculation, subsequent British colonization, and American development into the twenty-first century. Following the near eradication of domestic timber on the British Isles, the abundance of old-growth forests in the New World posed an ...

  5. Pyrography - Wikipedia

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    Pyrography or pyrogravure is the free handed art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker. It is also known as pokerwork or wood burning. [1] The term means "writing with fire", from the Greek pyr (fire) and graphos (writing). [2]

  6. Fire making - Wikipedia

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    From left to right: flint, fire striker, char cloth and piece of mushroom. Fire making, fire lighting or fire craft is the process of artificially starting a fire. It requires completing the fire triangle, usually by heating tinder above its autoignition temperature. Fire is an essential tool for human survival and the use of fire was important ...

  7. Textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The textile arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas are decorative, utilitarian, ceremonial, or conceptual artworks made from plant, animal, or synthetic fibers by Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Textile arts and fiber arts include fabric that is flexible woven material, as well as felt, bark cloth, knitting, embroidery, [1 ...

  8. Cultural burning - Wikipedia

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    Cultural burning. Cultural burning is the process of using prescribed burns to manage landscapes, a process used primarily by Indigenous peoples; more specifically the Indigenous people of Australia and the Western parts of North America [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] have been found to use this method extensively. This practice created a relationship ...

  9. Pueblo pottery - Wikipedia

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    The modern period of pueblo pottery began in about 1900, after a stale period in the 1800s, caused by loss of Indigenous land to non-indigenous settlers, and the trend within government-run boarding schools to condition Native peoples to be more like whites and to abandon their traditional ways, language and cultures.