
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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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 […]
If you steal children, you are likely to get a war. It’s really a bad idea. Children are the future. If you take hope from people, they will find it somewhere. That’s […]
Assiniboia exported patterns of culture, settlement and religion to the Hudson Bay Company’s Columbia District. That’s us here out on the Pacific Coast, north of California, more or less what is called […]
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 […]
Well, my companions took the cold rather hard. And we’re talking cold. Here is what our December looked like. That’s the date on the left, then the high, then the low (circled), […]
OK, a little secret. Cascadia, the Pacific Northwest of North America, evolved in Rupert’s Land, far to the Northeast, and in a colony called Assiniboia, centred on the Red River on the […]
A terrible thing was done between 1793 and 1805. The mountains were broken open from East to West. Alexander Mackenzie’s Map of the End of the World The mountains had always been […]
Names are slippery. A popular one these days is “The Pacific Northwest.” Portland: A Settlement in the Pacific Northwest, with the ancestor Wy’east in the Background Don’t believe everything you read about […]
Forget any thoughts of darkness. These are days of such light. The light was fading in the cedar forest on Rose Swanson Mountain in Splatsin Territory this afternoon. There was too little […]
Tonight, we celebrate birth and renewal at the intersection of Earth and Sky. Trees are a great place for that, both the wooden kind and the human ones walking through the woods […]