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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.

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Don't bother me

This swallowtail caterpillar reacts to being touched

by rearing up and sticking out his antennae.

Posted by Devon Mihesuah at 9:53 AM

Labels: Don't bother me

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Indigenous Eating Challenge

Check out my blog, "A Week of Indigenous Eating"

Happy Fall!

My butterfly garden 1st day of fall

The Garden Meal

Check out my Native American recipes with no Old World ingredients

Reserva Natural Cabezas de San Juan

Coming Soon: A Tour of Puerto Rico Natural World, including Reserva Natural Cabezas de San Juan

Mosaic Bison

The old plywood bison that hung on my late in-laws' (Henry and Fern Mihesuah) carport got a makeover with plastic pieces and a horn from a bumper. He is now on my south fence overseeing day lilies, milkweed and butterfly bushes.

Tour of the Baker Wetlands

Check out the new photo tour

Bring Back the Monarchs

Big Green Pond Frog

Big green pond frog in our small pond

Bobate Hunting

Photos of Baldwin City Bobcat

New Book! Storied Dishes

My essay, “The Garden Meal,” appears in this anthology of stories by women foodies.

Geese and Goslings

Mother and Father Geese with goslings at our pond May 3

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Environmental Links

World Environmental Organization
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Kansas Natural Heritage Inventory
Indigenous Environmental Network
EnviroLink
Kansas Biological Survey
Monarch Watch

About Me

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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