Big River Transboundary Speaking Tour
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.
Kootenay Bay, BC | August 22 | Yasodhara Ashram | 7pm | with Stevey Seymour (Sinixt, Executive Director of the Inchelium Language and Culture Association)
Nakusp, BC | Sept. 9 Elementary school visits; public meeting TBA
Revelstoke, BC | September 10 | Revelstoke Museum and Archives | 7pm | with a Wildsight water advocate.
Golden, BC | September 11 | Art Gallery of Golden- Kicking Horse Culture | 5:30-7:30pm | with Graeme Lee Rowlands (Wildsight)
Trail, BC | September 13 | Bailey Theatre, “The Griff" | September 13 | 2pm | with Shelly Boyd (coordinator, Sinixt office) and Cindy Marchand (chair of the Colville Confederated Tribes Fish & Wildlife Committee.) Focus on Salmon!
Salmo, BC | October 2, 2025 | Salmo Public Library
Event Speaker:
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 international Columbia River basin for more than two decades. Pearkes contributed her writing to Braided River's 2024 book, Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin, and is the author of The Geography of Memory, A River Captured: The Columbia River and Catastrophic Change, and The Heart of a River. www.edpearkes.com