So, what do you think? Is it possible that wolves (or in this case coyotes) taught people to make music, first by howling into the wind, and then by making flute holes […]
The Origins of Music?
Whole Worlds Hidden from the Settler Gaze
Under the snow, it’s spring. Under stone, it’s the same. Where the sun intensifies and molten water collects, it’s spring. This is when the rock is mined for nutrients that feed the […]
Reading Trees
Every piece of the bark of a ponderosa pine fits together… and comes apart. It is a kind of hieroglyphic language — a special one, in which each word is unique and […]
Fate, Race and Populism in the Third Reich (1936) and Cascadia (2020), Part 1 of 5
There is a story to things. This bluff above an old Nimiipu’u village site on the Snake River in Idaho has a story: Hells Gate State Park Note the Fall Rye planted […]
Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia
This post is a sketch of a detailed, viable alternative to this document: There are solutions in this blog for every problem listed in this document, that avoid its high […]
Sixty Things We Can Do to Help the Earth Right Now, Right Here
This is the second part of the answer to a question of how adopting Indigenous land use protocols can help the Earth. The first is here: The Price of De-Indigenizing the Land. […]
Two Kinds of Maps
This is a map of south-central British Columbia. In certain cultures, it is called lichen hanging off the dead lower branches of a tree. Here’s what some cultures call a map: […]
The Wind and the Grass Taking a Deer for a Walk Among the Dead
Snow, then sun, then snow, then wind, then sun, with both wind and sun coming in at a low angle, but not too much sun, turns the bunchgrass into a series of […]
Let’s Set the Delicious Apocalyptic Dream of Settler Culture to Rest
“Settler Colonialism” is a serious thing. In fact, in North America it is one of the most serious things of all. It should be handled carefully, like the toxic nuclear waste it […]
A Violent Legacy
This image of paradise … The Vineyard at the Rise … laid over this image of paradise… The Memory of the Syilx, a Displaced People, on the “Bella Vista Hills” …is violence. Perhaps […]
