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 […]
58. The Catholics Come to Town
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 […]
54. Pierre’s Hole 6: War By Other Means, Sometimes Headless
In the last episode of this exploration of the end of the Old West, I showed how international diplomacy and trade are poor partners. I was talking about Peter Skene Ogden’s expeditions […]
52. Pierre’s Hole 4: Some Problems With Using Business to Conduct Diplomacy
Business has always been a primary foundation of the development of the West of North America, with diplomacy being subordinated to it. The development of Cascadia is no exception. It was an […]
Reading the Land
If you see “rock” and “drought” here, please look again. And again. And again. Take your time. Take a lifetime, if you need it. A cultural map at the head of Canim […]
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 […]
38. Raven’s Prophecies, The War of 1812 and the Old Northwest
The War of 1812 saw Britain, Indigenous peoples and the United States fight on both sides of the Great Lakes over independence and expansion: US independence to trade with Napoleonic France, recognition […]
34. War by Other Means, Part 1
In my last post https://okanaganokanogan.com/2022/11/22/39-you-say-skaha-i-say-sqexeʔ/, number 33 in this series, I pointe out that even the simple concepts that determine human relationships to land today, things universally dispersed or at least fought […]
33. You Say Skaha, I say Sqexeʔ
The Okanagan Valley, a European space since 1859, hasn’t shed its colonial roots. Becoming a part of Canada in 1871 didn’t do a whole lot about that, partly because when you colonize […]
Two Views of the Heart
Well, you can take an old ranch and make a state park. That’s one thing you can wear your heart on your sleeve. Columbia Hills, Washington That’s Oregon in the distance. Or […]
Okanagan Okanogan 