Land and water are land-and-water: one substance. Salish Sea, the Islands and the Coast Mountains Talk about this weave doesn’t have to start with words. Below is a conversation that places human […]
Land is Water and Water is Land
Land and Water are One (Again)
Northern Cascadia has vast amounts of land and water, yet both are too expensive for the people who live there. That’s one way of putting things. Another is that land and water […]
Roads to Nowhere
Here’s a pretty typical Cascadian road. It goes across the high prairie north of the Columbia River, but not to the prairie. It goes through it. On its way to somewhere else. […]
We Can Do Better
The other day, I showed how little economy was actually generated by the Okanagan’s forests. 95% or so, in fact. Check it out, if you missed it. https://okanaganokanogan.com/2025/11/06/there-has-got-to-be-a-better-way/ This post continues the […]
How to Get to Cascadia
Having trouble finding Cascadia, now that the US-Canadian Border is becoming fraught? Well… That’s right. You can get there. But maybe not the direct way. By plugging in? Well, you might get […]
60 Waillatpu 1: Marcus and Narcissa Whitman’s Big Mistake
Imagine if you could ride a horse out of your country and arrive in Heaven. Hillsideon the Kooskooskie River The land is written with stories, in stone, water and animals, across some […]
58. The Catholics Come to Town
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 […]
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 […]
56. Missionary Failures in the Pacific Northwest
I have been following the story of the development of the Pacific Northwest as a local story. That’s to say, one that includes all of the region’s people. It’s who we are […]
55. Pierre’s Hole 7: A Slave Culture Evolves
In this final visit to Pierre’s Hole, I hope to show how Sioux (and later Blackfoot) attempts to keep Europeans out of the Pacific Northwest through diplomatic slavery became over time an […]
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