Since my personal move to California during the pandemic, I’ve spent less time in the upper Columbia River region that formed and shaped my writing, but I have not stopped thinking and writing about it. Last year, Rocky Mountain Books released a new edition of The Geography of Memory, and next year they will provide a wide distribution for a title that has been hard-to-find but is in much demand, The Heart of A River. Thank you, Don Gorman, for your continued support.
It has been a particular honor for me to continue to work with the Sinixt as they begin their rightful journey home. The love and commitment I feel has turned to joy, as I watch them assume their rightful place in the upper Columbia River region.
Join me on Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Nelson’s Capitol Theatre for a summary of how meaningful work inspired by passion can enhance humanity. I have learned lessons of betrayal, trust, persistence and belonging that I will share with all.
Hello Eileen
After having moved from one river valley, the Bulkley, to Kimberley, in the Kootenay River Valley, 3 years ago, I attended a 3-day symposium, organized by the Columbia Basin Trust last spring.
I have been captivated by the story of this mighty river and the history of controlling it for human purpose, ever since.
Next summer, with tent and kayaks, we plan to drive from Canal Flats to the US border, visiting all the small communities that were established within the drainage systems of the Columbia and seeing the dams that annihilated the life-sustaining Indigenous fisheries and local valley-bottom agriculture.
In preparation for that trip, I was grateful to be introduced to your book, ‘A River Captured’, which I have been recommending to all, as I am carried by your compelling narrative, through the geology, geography and history of the Columbia.
I would like to add that the cover hit me like a thunderbolt, when I saw the trees of the free RIVER morphing into the bars of a CAPTURED or enslaved, river. Powerfully graphic, in the simplicity of three words and four vertical lines.
Thank you for writing truth to power.
Dina