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. […]
49. Pierre’s Hole, Part 1
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 […]
Let the Life Go On
For 10 days, my quince was the beloved haunt of both a Rufus and a Calliope hummingbird. Rockscaping will not keep the planet alive. Saving water? Funny, the words we use. Nor […]
48. A Mixed Race Culture in the Pacific Northwest
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 […]
Replanting a Lost Orchard
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 […]
47. The Tragedy of the Stolen Children: the Price of White Washing
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 […]
46. The Stolen Children: Assiniboia, Capital of Cascadia, Part 3
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 […]
45. Assiniboia: Capital of the Pacific Northwest, Part 2
In Part 1 of this discussion, https://okanaganokanogan.com/2023/02/10/44-assiniboia-capital-of-the-pacific-northwest-part-1/, I closed with the observation that: A Mixed Settlement Model in Assiniboia To be clear, the current parallel capitals of the Pacific Northwest are not […]
44. Assiniboia: Capital of The Pacific Northwest. Part 1.
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 […]
Winter Rainbows
What a great day at the lake. Taking a break from preparing my next history of the Pacific Northwest for you, I went to Okanagan Lake just as the sun was dipping […]