If you would like to teach your children or grandchildren how to continue settler culture, the culture of the Hudson’s Bay Company and its network of fur-trading forts in what it termed […]
A Gift for the Children
Winter Light Reveals The Map of sx̌ʷəx̌ʷnitkʷ
Below is a powerful map of Southern Okanagan Lake and the Okanogan River, on its route to the Columbia at Brewster. It shows clearly how settlers navigate from one colonial strong point […]
Look at Our Sisters Waiting for the Sun
Look at the sun far below, waiting for their water! Look at them all, waiting for the wind!
Cold and Warm Climate Adaptations
Here in the winter of settler culture, the cold people, aka lichens, are in bloom. This is their time of glory, when the sun is warm in the thin surface layer above […]
Keeping Water
In the November sun, the mullein’s hairs soften its outline in the light. They hold the plant’s water and keep it from the sun. They keep it. In the December fog, the […]
Taking a Second Look: It is Not Erosion
This is how we change the world. We change the world. Mullein Changing the World on Some Crushed Gravel Leftover from Road-Building This is going on across the slope of a gravel […]
The Unity of Land, Water and Sky
The balance between water and other forms of energy is written on the land. It is written in colour and form, down to the finest level of correspondence. You cannot say: […]
The Difference Between Coyotes and Humans
Check out what Sen’klip nabbed and dropped along his trail. Lovely! Check out what farming looks like in the Okanagan today. Here’s a farmer at work on his farm road in Bella […]
Let the Sun Be Our Guide
The hips of the wild rose are red so that we will see them, pick them, and carry their seeds with us. Other people, like deer and birds, are targeted in the […]
Siya?’s Beautiful Lessons
My dear Siya? She ends the year by holding still. She wakes midwinter, without stirring. She starts the year by holding still. Very still. She has woven a basket to catch you, […]
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