Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

The Geography of Memory is back in a greatly expanded, 20th anniversary edition. New maps, more photos, groundbreaking research and several essays by contemporary Sinixt people, all inform this important history of a transboundary First Nation that the Canadian government nearly succeeded in wiping from cultural memory. Learn more about the “American” tribe that took Canada to court, and in a landmark 2021 Supreme Court decision, proudly restored their Aboriginal right to access 80% of their traditional…

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Back in a new edition (Fall, 2022 release) with updates on the treaty negotiation process over the past decade, A River Captured is a compelling narrative that outlines a central ethical challenge: how to repair and restore some of what has been lost. While the 1964 Columbia River Treaty is often praised as a model water management agreement between the US and Canada, the story under the surface reveals greed, betrayal and heavy-handed tactics employed by the government in Canada, as the lauded treaty upended a healthy ecosystem with several dams and large storage…

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