Here’s an old word: illahie. Here’s what it looks like to me today: Well, that’s a teeny tiny bit of it. If you look it up in a Chinook Wawa dictionary… …the […]
The Illahie: the Braided Country
The Music of Bunch Grass
These are our old growth forests in the Syilx Illahie. Our sequoias, redwoods, Douglas firs, sitka spruce and western red cedars are blue-bunched wheat grass here. Forget the blue blades at the […]
Grass Bison Without Legs
The energy of the land comes forth in certain forms. Here in buffalo country in Montana, it’s up to its old tricks. Grass Bison! I know Montana is outside my homeland, but it’s […]
Microfarming
What if farmers started working with ants the way they do with bees? Would not farming become both herding and the development of the greatest possible ecological diversity? Would that not reverse a great […]
Photography and Human Survival
Pretty sumac leaves, huh. Look again below. Culturally, in Canada, people have the right to cut sumacs down like this and stack them up beside the street so they look like this the […]
The End of the Road of Diplomacy: the Bear Paw Battlefield
Here’s the Bear Paw Battlefield in the rain. It’s here that the hunt to eliminate a people from the face of the earth was called a war. It was just a hunt. […]
On My Way to Bearpaw
The sun came in under the clouds and illuminated the buffalo country. I felt the absence of the buffalo keenly. “Nature” seems to be no replacement.
Low Tech, Self-Sealing Water Storage Device
Each of these packages weighs about 150 grams. It has a protective skin, covered with moisture-preserving wax. It’s about 83% water, or 125 grams of water, or 1/2 cup of water. Yes, […]
The Secret That Everyone Knows
Imagine taking a drum, lifted into the sky at the heart of a people, a place of woman’s power for 800 generations, where women and girls gather bulbs in the spring to see […]
What Exactly IS Global Warming Anyway
The earth is warming, globally. There are many factors for this warming, including carbon emissions, methane emissions and urbanization (which changes light absorption patterns), among others, likely even including long-term non-human cycles, but […]
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