The War of 1812, eh. William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister, left, and Napoleon of France carving up the globe. National Portrait Gallery, London “The two greatest Commercial Nations in the […]
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 […]
Back in the spring I pointed out that during the dominance of New France over the West, the Iroquois trafficked in slaves between the Sioux and the French. This transfer of Indigenous […]
To give you a bit of a road map, we’re walking along here together to Pierre’s Hole, as the first of three critical moents in the transformation of Cascadian culture from a […]
I talked about Pierre’s Hole a while back, but I was too quick about it. Here’s a slower introduction to the fall of the Old West. I’ll start with material I looked […]
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 […]
The coriander is beautiful today. Do you see the bee hiding there? Bees and wasps everywhere. People are asking, “Where are the bees and the wasps and the pollinators this year?” Here. […]
We’re on our way to Pierre’s Hole: Pierre’s Hole, Looking East to the Grand Tetons. Source Back in 1834, at least one man thought it looked like this: The Battle of Pierre’s […]
The courtly politics of the Hudson Bay Company, a front for a private, aristocratic state within Britain that circumvented parliament… Here’s a link to that history. ….the courtly politics of the Mexican […]
I was down at Chopaka yesterday, planting a nursery on Lower Similkameen land. This is a food sustainability project to replace the orchard that White farmers from the packinghouse at Keremeos, a […]
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