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600-Strong: whoever would have thought?

March 26, 2025 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 3 Comments

On Tuesday, March 25, the Columbia River Treaty negotiating team and associated politicians held a webinar about the status of the 2024 Agreement in Principle (AIP), which might also be termed the Agreement in Limbo….Since the imagined faucet comment, made by a certain US politician (see my November post), and since the tariff conflicts between […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Uncategorized, Upper Columbia River Region Tagged With: Canadian Tariffs, Columbia River Treaty, Salmon

Hockey and gravity

March 10, 2025 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 2 Comments

This morning, major U.S. news outlets led with a story about Mark Carney winning his bid for the leadership of the Canadian Liberal Party, replacing Justin Trudeau and his sunny ways. Storm clouds have been on the horizon between the two countries for a while now. The wind is picking up. In his acceptance speech, […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Upper Columbia River Region, Water Tagged With: Canada, Columbia River, Mark Carney

Columbia River Treaty Agreement-in-Principle!

July 12, 2024 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes Leave a Comment

Indigenous people will have input on management of what the tribes have long referred to as “one river.” There is no legal muscle here. Just a different set of values in the mix. A foot in the door, opening out into a more compassionate home for fish and other voiceless residents of the basin?

Filed Under: Home page, Uncategorized, Upper Columbia River Region Tagged With: Breathing life into the system as this agreement proposes, Columbia River Treaty

Swimming with the Salmon

June 26, 2023 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

I recently followed the Salmon Spirit to the upper Columbia River region, my literary homeland. The first time I felt that spirit’s power was in 2019, when I attended a tribal ceremony marking the release of several dozen ocean Chinook into Lake Roosevelt Reservoir. With the 500+ foot Grand Coulee Dam blocking their ancient pathway, […]

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Journey Home

October 4, 2022 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 1 Comment

After several months’ delay due to supply chain issues, the 20th anniversary edition of my first book, The Geography of Memory has finally arrived in warehouses! I’m grateful to Don Gorman of Rocky Mountain Books for proposing the new edition, and to the many Sinixt people who have contributed essays and enthusiasm.  Public awareness of land and […]

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Lighting a Flame

May 24, 2021 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes 8 Comments

In April, 2021, the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed that the Sinixt/Arrow Lakes tribe are Aboriginal People of Canada. It was the end of a long legal road travelled by this transboundary tribe, to reverse a 1956 Canadian government declaration that they were “extinct.” The word “extinct” descends through English from the Latin word extinctus, […]

Filed Under: Home page, Landscapes, Upper Columbia River Region Tagged With: Columbia River, Sinixt

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About Eileen

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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  • Challenging conversations: a unique Stanford symposium on the Columbia River
  • 600-Strong: whoever would have thought?
  • Hockey and gravity
  • Salmon and Columbia River Treaty flood control
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