Just, like, you know, find a cliff and get rooted. This is an old railway cut, but a road cut will do fine. For this approach, it’s good to be below a […]
Need Water? Make Some. Need Land? Make Some of That, Too.
Harold Rhenisch
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Which Way is Up
Let this be the year for ending human bias in thinking. We’re not going to be able to let the Earth join us as a person with an attitude like that. Besides, […]
Kicking the Colour Drug
The Earth is a spiritual place. I mean, it’s an energy. This energy draws matter to it. It takes shape. The Earth is a shape of this kind. All things on Earth […]
Happy New Year!
It is the year to become sagebrush! Let us have an end to fences this time around! Blessings, all you Cascadians out there!
After Christmas, Blessings
When we are finally a people of the land, we will know how to speak and what words to use. Until then, let’s celebrate those who live this life already. The ones […]
59. Jason Lee: The Wrong Man at the Right Time
Sometimes, prophecy comes from a crow, telling the news. Town Crier in a City of Crows. Photo by Harold Rhenisch Sometimes, it’s a man. Even if it isn’t his choice. One was […]
58. The Catholics Come to Town
After the mountain men from St. Louis braided themselves into Cascadia and competition between the USA and Britain cloaked itself in the form of mercantile competition between the American Fur Company of […]
57. The Pacific Northwest War Today
So, let’s add something important to the history of Cascadia, the bioregion known in humanist tradition as The Pacific Northwest. This stuff: The Central Cascadian Coast, with Fires from its Fire Forests […]
56. Missionary Failures in the Pacific Northwest
I have been following the story of the development of the Pacific Northwest as a local story. That’s to say, one that includes all of the region’s people. It’s who we are […]
55. Pierre’s Hole 7: A Slave Culture Evolves
In this final visit to Pierre’s Hole, I hope to show how Sioux (and later Blackfoot) attempts to keep Europeans out of the Pacific Northwest through diplomatic slavery became over time an […]
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