If you steal children, you are likely to get a war. It’s really a bad idea. Children are the future. If you take hope from people, they will find it somewhere. That’s […]
47. The Tragedy of the Stolen Children: the Price of White Washing
46. The Stolen Children: Assiniboia, Capital of Cascadia, Part 3
Assiniboia exported patterns of culture, settlement and religion to the Hudson Bay Company’s Columbia District. That’s us here out on the Pacific Coast, north of California, more or less what is called […]
45. Assiniboia: Capital of the Pacific Northwest, Part 2
In Part 1 of this discussion, https://okanaganokanogan.com/2023/02/10/44-assiniboia-capital-of-the-pacific-northwest-part-1/, I closed with the observation that: A Mixed Settlement Model in Assiniboia To be clear, the current parallel capitals of the Pacific Northwest are not […]
44. Assiniboia: Capital of The Pacific Northwest. Part 1.
Assiniboia was a mixed race community at the heart of North America in the early 19th Century. The culture (and violence) created there would shape the creation of modern cultures in the […]
Winter Rainbows
What a great day at the lake. Taking a break from preparing my next history of the Pacific Northwest for you, I went to Okanagan Lake just as the sun was dipping […]
Winter & Peaches
Well, my companions took the cold rather hard. And we’re talking cold. Here is what our December looked like. That’s the date on the left, then the high, then the low (circled), […]
43. Assiniboia, Capital of the Pacific Northwest
The Northwest… A Little Bit of the Far Northwest: The Bearpaw Battlefield on a Rainy June Day Here ended the independence of the Nimiípu’u in 1871 after using the remoteness of Montana […]
Spiritual Painting with Light
Given that it’s not possible to make an image of a red dogwood… Sadly, a photograph, not an image of a red dogwood. There’s a lot of camera in that thing. … […]
42. Royalty, Assiniboia and the Pacific Northwest
OK, a little secret. Cascadia, the Pacific Northwest of North America, evolved in Rupert’s Land, far to the Northeast, and in a colony called Assiniboia, centred on the Red River on the […]
41. Breaking Through the Mountains and Breaking the World
A terrible thing was done between 1793 and 1805. The mountains were broken open from East to West. Alexander Mackenzie’s Map of the End of the World The mountains had always been […]
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