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 […]
50. Pierre’s Hole 2: How We All Got To Pierre’s Hole
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 […]
47. The Tragedy of the Stolen Children: the Price of White Washing
If you steal children, you are likely to get a war. It’s really a bad idea. Children are the future. If you take hope from people, they will find it somewhere. That’s […]
46. The Stolen Children: Assiniboia, Capital of Cascadia, Part 3
Assiniboia exported patterns of culture, settlement and religion to the Hudson Bay Company’s Columbia District. That’s us here out on the Pacific Coast, north of California, more or less what is called […]
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 […]
43. Assiniboia, Capital of the Pacific Northwest
The Northwest… A Little Bit of the Far Northwest: The Bearpaw Battlefield on a Rainy June Day Here ended the independence of the Nimiípu’u in 1871 after using the remoteness of Montana […]
42. Royalty, Assiniboia and the Pacific Northwest
OK, a little secret. Cascadia, the Pacific Northwest of North America, evolved in Rupert’s Land, far to the Northeast, and in a colony called Assiniboia, centred on the Red River on the […]
40. The Pacific Northwest and Its Borders
Names are slippery. A popular one these days is “The Pacific Northwest.” Portland: A Settlement in the Pacific Northwest, with the ancestor Wy’east in the Background Don’t believe everything you read about […]
39. The Beginnings and Ends of History
Euroamerican histories do not tell the story of the Pacific Northwest. Not really. A story of colonial cultures set in native space. This is the story of the Canadian province called British […]
38. Raven’s Prophecies, The War of 1812 and the Old Northwest
The War of 1812 saw Britain, Indigenous peoples and the United States fight on both sides of the Great Lakes over independence and expansion: US independence to trade with Napoleonic France, recognition […]
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