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New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
Serendipity
Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
Chopaka: the Holy Mountain
2. Why This Book is Talking
The Mystery of Buffalo Eddy
Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
Ancient Yew Among the Cedars
The Japanese Okanagan
39. The Beginnings and Ends of History

23. Pandosy and the People of the Grass

By Harold Rhenisch on October 18, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The last few days, I have been trying to demonstrate what colonial history might have looked like when Indigenous law still ruled the Pacific Northwest. People have been here for something like […]

22. Keeping the Catholics at Arms Length

By Harold Rhenisch on October 14, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Here’s a question we can ask: If Chief Peopeomoxmox of Waillatpu, “The Village of Wild Rye Grass,” had installed the new Catholic arrivals of November 6, 1847 on his side of the […]

21. Father Pandosy, Slave-in-the-Making and White Poster Boy

By Harold Rhenisch on October 13, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

On November 5, 1847, a year after the end of the Mexican-American War, a young Oblate Catholic acolyte, Charles Pandosy, stepped into this story of water at Fort Nez Perce, at the […]

20. What is a River?

By Harold Rhenisch on October 12, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Wikipedia is basic about this: A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground […]

19. All This Land Was Water Once

By Harold Rhenisch on October 11, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

There is no need to think in straight lines. Lines like that say “this stuff is land”… … and “this other stuff is water.” That is simply a false division. There’s an […]

18. Water, Slavery, War and Peace in the Similkameen

By Harold Rhenisch on October 7, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

No matter what you’re using it for or who you are, British Columbian law states that any water licensed by the government must be put to “beneficial use.” What does that mean? […]

Knocking the House into Shape Before Winter Comes

By Harold Rhenisch on October 7, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Everyone is doing it. Ah, here comes the home handyman now. Why put it off until spring?

17. How to Enslave the Land and the Water if You Are British: a Guide for Colonists

By Harold Rhenisch on October 6, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

This is the fourth in a series of notes on the practice of transferring human slavery to land slavery. This one is a compound method that includes a fair bit of human […]

16. How to Enslave the Land if You are American: a Guide for Colonists

By Harold Rhenisch on October 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

After my trip to the plateau, let’s start in again on the history of how we got to the cultural divides we are in today. If you remember, the theme was slavery […]

Floating on the Glacier

By Harold Rhenisch on October 3, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

This is a climate change story. The glacier that carved the Marble Mountains out of limestone melted 10,000 years ago. And it is still here.

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I have worked here since 2011 telling stories of the Earth as preparation for a history of the Intermontane Grasslands of Central Cascadia and the rainswept coast that keeps them windy and dry. Now I am presenting this history, step by step, as I have learned it, often from the land itself. The history of this region includes the Canadian colonial space “The Okanagan Valley”, which lies over the land I live in above Canim Bay. The story stretches deep into the American West, into the US Civil War, the War of 1812, and the Louisiana Purchase, as well into the history of the Columbia District of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In all, the story spans the Chilcotin and Columbia volcanic plateaus and the basins that surround them. In this vast watershed lie homelands as old as 13,200 years (Sequim) and 16,200 years (Salmon River.) That’s how far we are walking together here, who are all the land speaking.

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  • New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
  • Serendipity
  • Getting Our Land Back from the Pacific Northwest
  • Chopaka: the Holy Mountain
  • 2. Why This Book is Talking
  • The Mystery of Buffalo Eddy
  • Ponderosa Pine: The Tree at the Heart of a People
  • Ancient Yew Among the Cedars
  • The Japanese Okanagan
  • 39. The Beginnings and Ends of History

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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