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 […]
39. The Beginnings and Ends of History
Learning the Future from Clover
What a world we live in. Once, there was a shamanic landscape. If you walked out into the grass, you were in a wind that blew off the stars. The old stories […]
Spirit Mountain and the Legacy of the Dreamers
Back in the Cold War, this was one of the most secure sites in the world, bristling with anti-aircraft defences against a nuclear first strike. Now it’s a dry hill beside an alfalfa field. It […]
The Key to Shamanic Understanding
Ancestors, frozen… Ancestor pretending to be frozen… Time follows. Logically.
Spirit Rock
This rock is about 4 metres tall. It is worth a lifetime of reading. Amazing!
High Canopy Sagebrush Forest
Size is relative. Grasslands are forests, too. They only appear short because we walk in the sky.
Snake Leaves the Snake
To the Nimiipu, water was the strongest spiritual substance. Note that the snake that leaves the Snake River here at Buffalo Eddy, never arrives at the (older) shamanic figure. That’s because it’s […]
Walking With Coyote and Looking at the Stars
Walking through the bunchgrass. Walking through the sagebrush. Walking over the bed of an ancient sea. Looking at a supernova. Looking at planetary clusters. Looking at the solar system. Looking at the […]
A Tiny Lexicon of Indigenous Language
Supernova… Clover In the shamanic traditions of the grasslands, the ground we walk upon is also the other world, where the dead walk among the stars. It is only a frozen shell […]
Visions of Earth and Sky
Been thinking. Putting two and two together. Thinking, “Some things are so obvious that you can’t see them for a long, long time, and then you see them and you think, whoosh, […]
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