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New Water Collection Technologies for the Okanagan
Putting That Mower Away
Gull Island: A New Island in Okanagan Lake
Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia
Serendipity
There is More Than One Sun and More than One Earth
4. A Woman Loses Her Dowry at a Poker Game
Beautiful Rain
The Problem With Canada
Water Cress

13. A War for Freedom

By Harold Rhenisch on August 29, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

The Texas Revolution went badly for the two Mexican generals who tried to stop it. Their police action, to enforce an anti-slavery law, was a new, utopian experiment for Mexico. Under Spanish […]

All the Suitors Lining Up for Love

By Harold Rhenisch on August 26, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

I’ve been dealing with black widows in my summer kitchen for weeks. On the one hand, there are no bugs, so that’s nice. On the other hand, they can be a bit […]

12. Are We Slaves?

By Harold Rhenisch on August 25, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

This history began with a debt, that is mine to repay. It is the dept of a pish, a fish, and not just any pish but a chikamin pish, a bright silver […]

11. Why I Do Not Call This a Canadian Story

By Harold Rhenisch on August 24, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

You have probably noticed that I live in what is usually called “Canada”, a country claiming the northern half of North America. You’ve probably guessed that I travel on a Canadian passport. […]

10. A Black Market in the Similkameen

By Harold Rhenisch on August 23, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

Let’s backtrack a bit, to see what might have brought a man to try to change orcharding culture in the Similkameen Valley, and in the process anger half the people and become […]

9. The Healing Land?

By Harold Rhenisch on August 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

After a meditation on what the benchlands of the mid-Similkameen produces on its own at The Place of Yellow Flowers… it’s time to return to the orchards that are there now. In […]

8. Calling Things By Their Right Names

By Harold Rhenisch on August 19, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

Blind Creek, “the place of yellow flowers”, might indicate “rabbit brush…” …the bright, feathered sage that catches the sun in October and draws in jewelled bee flies, with their dense, brightly-coloured fur […]

7. Frustrations All Around

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

In 1923, Paul Terbasket went to jail for contempt of court for using siwiɬk, his ancestor, to irrigate the fruit trees at his inheritance, the story called Blind Creek. siwiɬk, a spirit […]

6. Converting tmxʷulaxʷ into “Land” & “Person” and then Property

By Harold Rhenisch on August 17, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

After watching the dowries of two women, Lucy Simla and Florence Louden, become transformed into ownership over the last 2 posts, today we’ll take a bit of time to track the continued […]

5. A Second Woman and Her Dowry

By Harold Rhenisch on August 16, 2022 • ( 2 Comments )

It looks like some deal was struck. In 1894 Frances Xavier Richter left his syilx wife Lucy in a log cabin on her land, which was now in his name… …assigned his […]

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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
  • Putting That Mower Away
  • Gull Island: A New Island in Okanagan Lake
  • Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the Okanagan and British Columbia
  • Serendipity
  • There is More Than One Sun and More than One Earth
  • 4. A Woman Loses Her Dowry at a Poker Game
  • Beautiful Rain
  • The Problem With Canada
  • Water Cress

Jesmond Mountain, Where the Coast and the Grasslands Meet

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