Elizabeth Azzuz

Elizabeth Azzuz is a Yurok Tribal member from the village of Weitchpus in northern CA, and a Karuk decedent from Katamiin. She is the director of traditional fire, family burns, and Treasurer to the board of the Cultural Fire Management Council. Treasurer to the Indigenous Stewardship Network.  And is a member of the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network with the Nature Conservancy.

Elizabeth is a cultural practitioner, who burns for basket materials, traditional foods and medicines. She has been burning since the age of four, when her grandfather caught her playing with matches and decided to teach her about her responsibility to the mother earth. She was taught that fire is a tool, not a toy.

CFMC provides training and jobs on the Yurok reservation, they have training exchanges to train future fire lighters in prescribed and cultural burns, giving them the needed skills to work with fire safely.