In this final visit to Pierre’s Hole, I hope to show how Sioux (and later Blackfoot) attempts to keep Europeans out of the Pacific Northwest through diplomatic slavery became over time an […]
55. Pierre’s Hole 7: A Slave Culture Evolves
54. Pierre’s Hole 6: War By Other Means, Sometimes Headless
In the last episode of this exploration of the end of the Old West, I showed how international diplomacy and trade are poor partners. I was talking about Peter Skene Ogden’s expeditions […]
53. Pierre’s Hole 5: The War of 1812 in the Far West
The War of 1812, eh. William Pitt the Younger, British Prime Minister, left, and Napoleon of France carving up the globe. National Portrait Gallery, London “The two greatest Commercial Nations in the […]
52. Pierre’s Hole 4: Some Problems With Using Business to Conduct Diplomacy
Business has always been a primary foundation of the development of the West of North America, with diplomacy being subordinated to it. The development of Cascadia is no exception. It was an […]
51. Pierre’s Hole 3: The Iroquois Road to Pierre’s Hole
Back in the spring I pointed out that during the dominance of New France over the West, the Iroquois trafficked in slaves between the Sioux and the French. This transfer of Indigenous […]
50. Pierre’s Hole 2: How We All Got To Pierre’s Hole
To give you a bit of a road map, we’re walking along here together to Pierre’s Hole, as the first of three critical moents in the transformation of Cascadian culture from a […]
49. Pierre’s Hole 1: What is Pierre’s Hole?
I talked about Pierre’s Hole a while back, but I was too quick about it. Here’s a slower introduction to the fall of the Old West. I’ll start with material I looked […]
It is Time to Go Upriver Together
Redfish Creek.
43. Assiniboia, Capital of the Pacific Northwest
The Northwest… A Little Bit of the Far Northwest: The Bearpaw Battlefield on a Rainy June Day Here ended the independence of the Nimiípu’u in 1871 after using the remoteness of Montana […]
40. The Pacific Northwest and Its Borders
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 […]
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