Just, like, you know, find a cliff and get rooted. This is an old railway cut, but a road cut will do fine. For this approach, it’s good to be below a […]
Need Water? Make Some. Need Land? Make Some of That, Too.
After Christmas, Blessings
When we are finally a people of the land, we will know how to speak and what words to use. Until then, let’s celebrate those who live this life already. The ones […]
57. The Pacific Northwest War Today
So, let’s add something important to the history of Cascadia, the bioregion known in humanist tradition as The Pacific Northwest. This stuff: The Central Cascadian Coast, with Fires from its Fire Forests […]
The Wind in the Grass
When you are born to a world, in which the old growth forests are bunchgrasses less than a metre high… … and live in these forests for close to half the time […]
37. A Land of Gifts
A vital part of the history of the Pacific Northwest is the concept of how your body relates to it culturally as a body among other bodies. This is not the same […]
29. Weaponizing the West: Part 1
Yesterday, I spoke about how the mobility provided by horses allowed the Cayuse to translate their lush grasslands into dominance over the Central Columbia and to exact tribute in the form of […]
28. The Spiritual Power of Horses in Old Oregon
To recap: the extensive Indigenous slave trade with the Spanish in the Southwest, and a fight for new technology (the horse), drove Indigenous cultural change on the western edges of New France […]
The Path of the Water
It’s not always a flow. I’m almost home from my gathering. We will follow our history again soon. Ultimately, though, just to give you a hint, we’re going here. Not that any […]
11. Why I Do Not Call This a Canadian Story
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. […]
5. A Second Woman and Her Dowry
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 […]
Okanagan Okanogan 