The Good Fire Podcast
Join as we explore the concept of fire as a tool for ecological health and cultural empowerment by indigenous people around the globe. Good Fire is a term used to describe fire that is lit intentionally to achieve specific ecological and cultural goals. Good fire is about balance.
Latest Episodes
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Good Fire Podcast
In this final episode of Season 2 of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Victor Steffensen and Ado Webster as they reflect on their experiences as Indigenous fire-keepers.
Season 2 | Episode 9 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Victor Steffensen and Ado Webster talk about cultural burning in Australia and the work Firesticks is doing to promote it.
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Kayla de Freitas and Nicholas Cyril to talk about the cultural burning practices in Guyana.
Season 2 | Episode 7 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down at the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) Fire & Climate Conference in Pasadena CA, featuring early career researchers who are re-kindling cultural burning.
Season 2 | Episode 6 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Don Hankins, Plains Miwok from the central valley of California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, to talk about new developments around cultural burning in California and his hopes for the future.
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Ntando Nondo to talk about Indigenous land stewardship and fire management practices in Zimbabwe.
Season 2 | Episode 4 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Joe Gilchrist and Natasha Caverley to talk about how Indigenous and Western ways of knowing can come together to bring cultural burning back on the land: a study exploring cultural safety of Indigenous wildland firefighters in Canada.
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Russell Myers Ross and William Nikolakis to speak about the work of the Gathering Voices Society on revitalizing traditional fire management in Tsilhqot’in Territory and the potential around carbon offsets.
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Good Fire Podcast
In this episode of the Good Fire Podcast, hosts Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Ron W. Goode to talk about his journey stewarding the land using fire and the importance of ceremony. Ron is the Tribal Chairman of the North Fork Mono Tribe. Ron shares his experiences with Aboriginal leaders in Australia, exchanging knowledge and cultural guidance.
Season 2 | Episode 1 | Good Fire Podcast
In our first episode of Season 2, Amy Cardinal Christianson and Matthew Kristoff sit down with Bhiamie Williamson to discuss the connection of Indigenous peoples to the land, and how cultural burning is a way to preserve the environment and cultural heritage.
Season 2 Teaser 2 and How To | Good Fire Podcast
Another teaser, and some advice from Amy for those that want to get involved!
Season 2 Teaser 1 | Good Fire Podcast
We are so excited to bring you a second season of Good Fire. It only took us 2 years to figure it out. But now, here it comes. Coming in the first half of 2022, discussions from people around the world about Indigenous cultural burning, getting fire back on the land, social justice, and cultural empowerment.

