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New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
The Story of Wasp and Thistle
Lake Shells (Not Sea Shells)
The Life of the Cosmos, or Reviewing Lee Smolen
On the Hunt for Wild Asparagus
Goethe, Zombies, Slavery, Indian Wars, Frankenstein and Terror
The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
Milkweed and Monarch Butterflies in the North
New Apricots from an Old Tree
Go, Ogopogo, And Don't Come Back No More!

47. The Tragedy of the Stolen Children: the Price of White Washing

By Harold Rhenisch on March 27, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

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 […]

46. The Stolen Children: Assiniboia, Capital of Cascadia, Part 3

By Harold Rhenisch on March 22, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on March 9, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

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.

By Harold Rhenisch on February 10, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on February 7, 2023 • ( 5 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on January 31, 2023 • ( 3 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on January 22, 2023 • ( 1 Comment )

The Northwest… A Little Bit of the Far Northwest: The Bearpaw Battlefield on a Rainy June Day Here ended the independence of the NimiĆ­pu’u in 1871 after using the remoteness of Montana […]

Spiritual Painting with Light

By Harold Rhenisch on January 15, 2023 • ( 2 Comments )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on January 12, 2023 • ( Leave a comment )

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

By Harold Rhenisch on January 10, 2023 • ( 3 Comments )

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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I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

https://okanaganokanogan.com/harold-rhenischs-shop/ Click to buy my new book The Tree Whisperer, an extension of Thoreau's Wild Apples and a book about learning to write poetry by pruning fruit trees. Only Olaf Hauge, from Norway, and I have followed such a path.
  • New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
  • The Story of Wasp and Thistle
  • Lake Shells (Not Sea Shells)
  • The Life of the Cosmos, or Reviewing Lee Smolen
  • On the Hunt for Wild Asparagus
  • Goethe, Zombies, Slavery, Indian Wars, Frankenstein and Terror
  • The Paradise Apple, Modern Farming and the Apple of the Celts
  • Milkweed and Monarch Butterflies in the North
  • New Apricots from an Old Tree
  • Go, Ogopogo, And Don't Come Back No More!

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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