Healing The Big River masterfully combines the art of visual storytelling with passionate essays. From the source of the Columbia, a tiny spring in the Canadian Rockies, to the four-mile wide confluence with the Pacific. Peter Marbach will guide you on a stunning visual journey, from source to sea, of the 1243 mile Columbia and highlight the complicated history of the Columbia River Treaty, between the U.S and Canada, enacted in 1964. The twelve contributing authors, a mix a fist nations, tribes, and salmon recovery advocates., speak of their relationship to the river and call for a modernized treaty that honors indigenous knowledge, allows for tribal input on the re-negotiations currently underway, and lays the groundwork to restore one of the greatest salmon runs the world has ever known.