On the principle that a science that creates linkages based on the replicable observation of an individual observer (a fine principle)… Spillyay at Work, Columbia Gorge … leads to individual observers and […]
The mountain is not passive. Only finished products are passive. Only “naming” to make an action into a noun creates objects. That is the point of naming. The mountain, however, is an […]
I live in Cascadia. Looking into the Core of the Earth, Norris Geysir Basin, Yellowstone, Cascadia (Home Sweet Home) Here’s what one of Canada’s universities in our space has to say about […]
Ah, freedom! You can just smell it, eh. Chief Emmitt Liquatum of Yale in 1881. What do you see? A leader a generation past a genocidal invasion, in which Gatling guns set […]
I would like to talk about Cascadia, with a particular view to the role of Canada within it. Have a look. Frenchtown, Canada The first 7 titles in this series about leaving […]
Skookum Wawa, in the jargon, Wawa, that sprang up at the intersection of Spanish, Nootka, Chinook, Kalapuyan, Tsinuk, Salishan, Sahaptin, English, French and Russian culture on the Northeast Coast of the Pacific, […]
In this series of posts I am exploring what might be required to set colonialism behind us and create a country for our future children’s children’s children, all of us, human, loon, […]
This flow… … is mapped as “The Okanogan River.” It is a colonial term, yet certainly not the most egregious. I live near the top of its headwaters. Head of the Lake […]
It’s a beautiful book. Designed, by the looks of it, to be sold as a gift shop memento, Victorian perhaps. Note the trompe d’oeil of the bug on the cover, which takes […]
Here’s a traditional map: It is a map for travelling between cities and towns. Here’s a different kind of map, the government’s tourism photo of Kalamalka Lake, on the south shore of […]
Okanagan Okanogan 