This is the second of three posts about the costs of farming. This one is about the tangle between land and race. The next is about broader environmental and social factors. If […]
Race and Orcharding in British Columbia and Washington
What if History Were Not Over? I Mean, for the Kids’ Sake
History is the study of what has happened in the past. But what if the Big Sage below, weighted with snow, were history instead? There comes a point where the inner heat […]
Let’s Set the Delicious Apocalyptic Dream of Settler Culture to Rest
“Settler Colonialism” is a serious thing. In fact, in North America it is one of the most serious things of all. It should be handled carefully, like the toxic nuclear waste it […]
After the Mountains are Levelled, What Then?
In a land made by water in the mountains … Moses Coulee … we’ve managed to straighten it out… Pasco … and flatten it out. Pasco The poles of power, representing human […]
Getting Our Land Back 8: The Role of Canada in Cascadia
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 […]
Getting Our Land Back 4: What to Do With Disenfranchised Land
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, blackbird, […]
Goethe: Poet, Scientist, Admistrator — and our Contemporary?
I’ve mentioned before how the princes of Germany used to study poetry in order to effectively run their countries. 21st Century, Post-Communist Up-date, Dornburg an Der Saale This wasn’t a matter of […]
Magpie’s Thoughts on Land Claims
Middle Class Country: an American pop culture project. Dude Ranch Country: an older American pop culture project. Spiritual Country: a Chinese-European folk cultural project. Artistic Country: an American cultural export installation. […]
Rocky Mountains Go Home Now, Eh
In order to build more houses like this, with lots of rock because Canada likes the very distant Rocky Mountains a lot … … and with a vineyard to draw people in […]
How to Create Floods in Indigenous Space
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has just published an article called “Fraser Valley threatened by flooding.” You can have a gander at it here. The Fraser River at Chilliwack Source I feel for […]
