Artist Talk- Big River Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin
Location
- 516 9th Ave N, Golden, BC
About The Event
Join author Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, a dual Canadian-American citizen, for transboundary conversations about healing the Columbia River. Pearkes and fellow speakers will offer hopes for Salmon and the future of the Columbia River, highlighting challenges that require great spiritual persistence and achievements that reward that persistence.
“This river…It’s one of our spiritual places—you can feel the ancestors here. We do the work, carrying on what our ancestors did here. We just hope that we are doing it right.”
— Sam Robinson, Vice Chairman of the Chinook Indian Nation
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history, and the human imagination through writing, maps, and visual notebooks, focusing on Indigenous culture and the power of water. She has researched the Columbia River basin for more than two decades. Pearkes is the author of The Geography of Memory and A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change.
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