PKOLS

10/09/2026

They blasted the shoreline, burned old-growth Douglas fir, shipped the island away in barrels and called it progress.

Limestone Quarrying and Limemaking in the San Juan Islands - HistoryLink.org https://share.google/80K9PZiM0aWdX2qgb

HistoryLink documents how San Juan Islands limestone fed construction, smelting, papermaking, and Hawaiian sugar production.
Roche Harbor’s lime operation eventually became a resort.

The homeland supplied the material; industry collected the revenue.

From here on STOLȻEȽ, I have a question that belongs ahead of every company history:
Where is the accounting for Indigenous consent?

Who had authority to sell?
What agreement covered these places?
Whose rights were recognized, whose were ignored, and where is the evidence?

Britain and the United States arguing over our homeland is no substitute for asking the families whose homeland it already was. WSANEC.

10/02/2026

7 PM tonight at Griffin Bay Bookstore Cafe.

Coming this Friday, October 2nd, to the Griffin Bay Bookstore Cafe with co-sponsors Arctic Raven Gallery and PKOLS.

09/24/2026

"My mother used to break off the little part at the bottom of the bulb – we called it the “whiskers” – and put that back into the ground."

Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge, by Nancy J. Turner

09/21/2026

As Long As The Rivers Run

*As Long as the Rivers Run* examines the civil disobedience leading...

09/17/2026

STOLȻEȽ. W̱ȾISEĆEN. ṮEṮÁ¸ĆES.

And generations of SENĆOŦEN names carrying knowledge the colonial map could never contain.

Colonization renamed the islands, drew an international border through the water, and then taught everyone to mistake the paperwork for history.
But ink does not create a homeland.

The border is young.
The names are older.

The people are still here.

09/12/2026

Feeding people means knowing where food comes from.

It means knowing when to harvest and when to leave something alone. It means understanding that taking creates an obligation to give something back.

It means recognizing that ecological knowledge isn't some quaint artifact stored behind museum glass.
It is technology for survival.
And maybe that is what guests and locals alike should carry into this gathering.

If you are visiting STOLȻEȽ, enjoy this extraordinary place but understand whose homeland you have entered. WSANEC.

If you live here, love these islands fiercely but understand that purchasing property here did not begin the history of your relationship with this land.
And if Indigenous people come here carrying songs, foods, language, teachings and ancestral knowledge, don't treat those things as entertainment added to the island experience.

Listen.

Because underneath the pavement of Friday Harbor is an older map.

Underneath the property lines is an older system of relationships.

Underneath that dotted international line cutting through our waters are canoe highways that never asked Ottawa or Washington, D.C. for permission to exist.

Colonial governments drew lines across Indigenous homelands.

They did not create those homelands.

So when Rachel and Spencer Greening come to Griffin Bay Bookstore on October 2 and speak about Ts’msyen foodways, ecological knowledge, seasonal rounds and harvesting practices, I hope people hear something larger than a cookbook presentation.

I hope they hear relatives speaking about how human beings belong to a place without believing they own it.

That lesson is desperately needed here.

The future of the Salish Sea isn't going to be saved by loving the view.

It will be saved when we remember how to live in relationship with it.

Welcome to STOLȻEȽ, Rachel and Spencer.

Bring the stories. Bring the knowledge. Bring the food teachings.

Some of us have been waiting a very long time for these conversations to become normal again.

QENT TŦE EN,ŚĆÁLEĆE.
Look after our relatives.

All of them.

09/09/2026

Food is more than nourishment. Food is relationship. Food is knowledge.
Food is how we remember who we are.

Those personal connections sharing stories, gifts, food and friendship are how community becomes family.

Friday, October 2 at 7 PM
Griffin Bay Bookstore
155 Spring Street, Friday Harbor

Come listen. Come learn.
Come celebrate Indigenous food sovereignty and the knowledge that survives because people continue to practice it, share it, and feed the people.

Á,LEṈENEȻ ȽTE — OUR HOMELAND.

| Preserving Knowledge of Land & Sea

09/01/2026

Please support our Protectors of the Salish Sea Prayer Walk out on our Sacred Island! For all of the Sacred Beings 🌊🐬💚🙌🏽🦅🌲🌎

We are doing our 5th Walk to Protect our Salish Sea 2026! B… Paul Chiyokten Wagner needs your support for Walk to Protect and Restore the Salish Sea 2026 STOLȻEȽ

09/01/2026

We invite you to join us on our ŚTEṈOLEȻEȽ (Prayer Walk), we step in remembrance of our responsibilities to the water, the land and all that dwell there. We step in unified heart for our Killer Whale families, for our Salmon families and for all of the sacred beings. We will end the threat of “so called Canada’s” 500% oil tanker traffic in our Coast Salish territories. This prayer work is so important! We must stop this TMX Pipeline oil from hitting ou our waters! Please share! Please join us on STOLȻEȽ (so-called San Juan Island) Sept. 3-7. Please RSVP at [email protected] HÍSW̱KE SIÁM for the support! 🙌🏽🦅🌊🐬 Link to Event, Website & Fundraiser:

https://www.facebook.com/share/1LqgLZkQaq/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://gofund.me/96b1c2f1d

https://protectorsofthesalishsea.org/

Join Protectors of the Salish Sea to support Indigenous-led conservation efforts, cultural practices, and the protection of our marine ecosystem.

08/27/2026

STOLȻEȽ is calling us back. 🌊🖤
From September 3–7, we will gather again on STOLȻEȽ — so-called San Juan Island — for the 2026 Prayer Walk to Protect & Restore the Salish Sea.
This is more than a walk.
We walk and pray for our salmon relatives struggling to return home.
For our orca relatives who cannot survive without them.
For the water that connects every shore, Nation, and generation throughout the Salish Sea.
And for the children who will inherit whatever we choose to protect — or fail to protect — today.
For thousands of years, Coast Salish families have traveled, harvested, prayed, gathered and cared for these islands and waters. That relationship did not disappear when an international border was drawn through the Salish Sea.
For four days, we will put our feet on the land and carry those prayers around STOLȻEȽ.
September 3 — Arrival & camp setup
September 4–7 — Prayer Walks
We will aim to depart around 8:00 AM each morning, with live updates from Protectors of the Salish Sea WE - One Mind for the Purpose of the Work Protectors of the Salish Sea as conditions and timing change.
Walk with us. Pray with us. Stand beside the water with us.
Come for a mile. Come for a day. Come for the whole journey.
Every footstep is a prayer.
QENT TŦE EN,ŚĆÁLEĆE — Look after our relatives.
✊🏽🌊🐋🐟
PKOLS — Preserving Knowledge of Land & Sea
Protectors of the Salish Sea
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