Yakni Achukma (The Good Land)

Yakni Achukma means "The Good Land" in Chahta anumpa (Choctaw language). This is the companion environmental blog to my American Indian Health and Diet Project at http://www.aihd.ku.edu/. This blog will follow the wildlife and changing seasons around Baldwin City, Kansas.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Geese

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Baby geese and their parents swimming in the big pond last month. Considering the number of coyotes around here, it's amazing that ...

Baby Purple Martins

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 Lots of baby purple martins have hatched recently. Of 52 compartments, there are babies in half of them. I cleaned out 8 invasive sparrow...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Tammar wallabies (look for the baby)

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Lounging and Preening

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Gorillas at Sedgwick Zoo

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Ok, so not everyone likes having their picture taken

Even More Sedgwick Zoo Faces

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African Painted Dog Pups at the Sedgwick Zoo

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African Painted Dog Pups. Interesting story about them at the Sedgwick Zoo here
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Devon Mihesuah
Devon Mihesuah is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and is a Chickasaw descendant. She is the Cora Lee Beers Price Professor at the University of Kansas and the author of dozens of award winning books and essays. She holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and has been a lifeguard, distance runner, musher, skijorer, gun salsperson, cook, high school biology and physics teacher, and swimming, basketball, cross country, and tennis coach. She lives in Baldwin City with her husband Josh and children Toshaway and Ariana.
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