The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna
DailyGood: News That Inspires - Jul 10, 2026 DailyGood News That Inspires Jul 10, 2026 "To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language." — Robin Wall Kimmerer The Indigenous Women Who Stopped a Burning Savanna When fire swept through the Santana Indigenous Territory in 2018, the men went for help and the women watched the land burn. From that helplessness, something unexpected grew: a volunteer fire brigade where 25 of 45 trained firefighters are women -- grandmothers, teenagers, educators -- defending 73,000 hectares of Brazil's Cerrado that the state has largely abandoned. In a year when...