SX̌ʷƏX̌ʷNITKʷ, the second major salmon falls of the Syilx Illahie (and the only one remaining free of Grand Coulee Dam), is not alone in this light. Look at Coyote’s big knobby head […]
A Coyote at The Little Falls
Cottonwoods Are the Salmon of the Air
Cottonwood trees lay down the nutrient conditions for salmon by creating sandbars, back eddies, and nutrient rich water. More vitally, their leaves are salmon. They grow along a spine and then at […]
Beauty, Renewal and the Salmon of Shuttleworth Creek in the Fight Against Global Warming
Shuttleworth Creek winds for many miles up through the antelope brush and bunchgrass, into the pine forest, and deep into the mountains, covered in firs. With a bed of complex gravels and […]
Truth and Reconciliation in the Thompson and Okanagan Valleys, One Camp Stool at a Time
What simpler way to celebrate the most enduring of Canadian values: coming face-to-face with the Earth, the Universe and Everything, alone, and for the first time, and the first time again tomorrow, […]
American Dipper Among the Salmon
This is the bird that weaves the worlds of water, air and stone. It walks into the water and out of it again. To Dipper, these worlds are one. Deep under the […]
Our Ancestors Are Not All Human. Neither Are We.
The salmon come home, but they do not come home alone. Sure, they have each other … … but that’s not what I mean. They come home to the ancestors. Have a […]
Salmon Coming Home to the Rain
Chinook Salmon, Stamp River, Cascadia 17.9.17 A half hour after the skies broke at last with rain.
The Redfish Come Home
Things are pretty great on Redfish Creek above the over-deepened trough of Kootenay Lake these days. The kokanee have come home. The work of mixing the sun with the earth and the […]
Salmon On the Way to Sea
While making arrangements for my father’s funeral a week ago, I walked down at dawn to the mouth of Simm’s Creek, on Eastern Vancouver Island. No, this is not rain. Four years […]
Where the Mountains Become Water
In my country, the rivers are born in the mountains. Here is born the Missouri, the Columbia, the Fraser and all their ancestors and all their daughters. This particular mother is the Cascades: a […]
Okanagan Okanogan 