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 […]
51. Pierre’s Hole 3: The Iroquois Road to Pierre’s Hole
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
35. The Long Arm of New France: War By Other Means, Part 2
In the previous post, I showed how even the simplest concepts of property and individuality from the settlement era in the Pacific Northwest (180 years ago) have determined much of the world […]
Bye-Bye Fire
The correct management of forests is to fill them with water and then to eat the trees. Well, actually the bark of the trees. The wood is used to hold the water […]
Smarter, More Ethical Water for the Okanagan
Here’s a great idea about water… …which the Vernon newspaper graciously printed for me. You can find it in the February 26 edition of the Vernon Morning Star, here. If you page […]
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