If we keep talking about this land & water as British Columbia, or just plain old B.C., we’re never going to get settler culture behind us, but if we change it to […]
Lahal or Illahie or Ouregon or Just B.C.?
When Trees are Weeds: Truth and Reconciliation from the Ground Up
Yesterday I started a meditation on classicism, and how the cultures within Canada have some choices, given German experience with the power, failure and abuse of classical models as a means of […]
Cascadia, Illahie, and La langue de nos mères
Here is the Similkameen Valley in The British Columbia. This is the land that holds me, and which made me, just below the foreground slope (Mount Kobau). Just behind it is the […]
Lewis and Clarke Never Found My Country
I went looking for the two Cayuse sisters, the beautiful twins. Coyote brought them salmon, and continues to watch over them, like the good dog he is. Before I found the sisters, […]
Not Necessarily the Anthropocene
Earth has a mouth …… but it is not a human mouth, although the family resemblance holds. Earth has a throat … … and a urethra … … but they are not […]
The Illahie: the Braided Country
Here’s an old word: illahie. Here’s what it looks like to me today: Well, that’s a teeny tiny bit of it. If you look it up in a Chinook Wawa dictionary… …the […]
Cascadia Redefined
Cascadia, the great ecoregion of the northeast Pacific Coast, is a term to describe something that deserves better. The short and skinny on it is that on the north eastern shores of the Pacific […]
This is the Best Day
The future starts today. The Tsilhqot’in people have been recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada as having title to their own land. It has been a struggle lasting over 140 years. […]
Okanagan Okanogan 