We have been on a journey together for three-and-a-half years. In that time, I finished up this blog as a book (twice!), but then I was reading up on a lynching in Conconully, Washington […]
How to Find a Story on the Columbia Plateau
Note the grove of firs in the background here, between the Sinlahekin and Okanogan valleys (well, stories) of Washington. If you walk one way, they are the bristly children a toad is carrying […]
How to Find an Old Village Site on the Columbia Plateau
Look for the ancestors from the Dreamtime. You’ll have to forget everything you know. And remember everything you are. You’ll have to find your minds in the rock. And move there.Then you […]
Of Mice and Men
Under the snowdrifts, mice ate between the thorns. On the Columbia River, men try to catch their salmon in the same way. In the second image, however, you can see […]
Why We Need Treaties
I live in a place that illegally occupied land, and signed no treaties for it. Here we are at an old village site on the Commonage Claim above Kalamalka Lake. A parking lot! […]
Land Claims in the Okanagan
To say that a land and its people are one, as the first people of my land, the Syilx, say, is to say that the following image is an image of the […]
Trolls in the Okanagan and Iceland
It’s nice to meet old friends. Here’s an Icelandic troll I found at dawn on Easter two years ago. Here’s the Okanagan version I found on Kalamalka Lake four days ago. […]
Save the Earth, Save Yourself (Seeing in the Dark, Part 3)
I promised to write about the environmental and scientific consequences of reading the land as darkness, in an embodied science, rather than as light (the kind of science we have today). I meant […]
Seeing in the Dark, Part II
Yesterday I proposed that the science of light and the world it allows humans to see … … was a deduction, a creative act, so to speak, not a leap of faith […]
Fog, the Storyteller
Fog, the trickster. Fog Over Coldstream Fog, the meteorological manifestation, is a different character. Both live in this land.
Okanagan Okanogan 