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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 […]

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The Wind and the Grass Taking a Deer for a Walk Among the Dead

Snow, then sun, then snow, then wind, then sun, with both wind and sun coming in at a low angle, but not too much sun, turns the bunchgrass into a series of […]

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Two Kinds of Maps

  This is a map of south-central British Columbia. In certain cultures, it is called lichen hanging off the dead lower branches of a tree. Here’s what some cultures call a map: […]

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Sixty Things We Can Do to Help the Earth Right Now, Right Here

This is the second part of the answer to a question of how adopting Indigenous land use protocols can help the Earth. The first is here: The Price of De-Indigenizing the Land. […]

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Ten Years Into the Future: social and ecological sustainability in the...

This post is a sketch of a detailed, viable alternative to this document:     There are solutions in this blog for every problem listed in this document, that avoid its high […]

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Fate, Race and Populism in the Third Reich (1936) and Cascadia (2020), Part 1...

There is a story to things. This bluff above an old Nimiipu’u village site on the Snake River in Idaho has a story: Hells Gate State Park Note the Fall Rye planted […]

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Reading Trees

Every piece of the bark of a ponderosa pine fits together… and comes apart. It is a kind of hieroglyphic language — a special one, in which each word is unique and […]

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Whole Worlds Hidden from the Settler Gaze

Under the snow, it’s spring. Under stone, it’s the same. Where the sun intensifies and molten water collects, it’s spring. This is when the rock is mined for nutrients that feed the […]

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The Origins of Music?

So, what do you think? Is it possible that wolves (or in this case coyotes) taught people to make music, first by howling into the wind, and then by making flute holes […]

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Gardens for the Grand Kids: an Organic Model for Slow Release Fertilizer in a...

Compost requires labour and tillage. In other words, it is a renewable input. It is one that mimics natural processes, or interjects materials into them. I guess it is a bit like […]

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