May 30, 2013
Cascadia
A notional realm lying on and behind the Northeast shores of the Pacific, running, variously, from as far north as lower Alaska and south as Big Sur, from tide pools to the desiccated fringes of the inland semi-deserts where the presence of the ocean might still be discerned. Cascadia has been described in Chinuk Wawa as a place where
konoway tiillciums klatawa kunamokst klaska mamook okoke huloima chee illahie
everyone was thrown together to make [a] strange new country.
Here is its proposed flag, which bears the emblem of what some allege is a cannabis bud, but instead is a Douglas fir.