Dreams to Reality
2019 is a year that we will remember the rest of our lives. It has been a time of accomplishing same major goals at the Nan Awaya...
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Ian Thompson
- Dec 24, 2019
- 1 min
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas and best wishes in the New Year from the Nan Awaya Farmstead.
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Ian Thompson
- Oct 16, 2019
- 3 min
Into Thin Air
It was a dark and stormy night. Two rain-soaked sleuths urgently combed the woods along the roadside looking for signs of the young male...
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Ian Thompson
- Oct 4, 2019
- 4 min
Choctaw Food: Remembering the Land, Rekindling Ancient Knowledge
We are thrilled to announce that the Choctaw Food book is finally available available on shelves! Part cookbook, part history book, and...
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Ian Thompson
- Oct 2, 2019
- 4 min
Powered by the Eye of God
In the Choctaw language, the sun is called "hvshi". The Choctaw ancestors understood the sun as being God's eye watching the earth. ...
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Ian Thompson
- Sep 7, 2019
- 5 min
Face-to-Face with an Ancestor
There is something therapeutic about being around buffalo. In the middle of a week spent on a dead run, it is healing to stand there for...
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Ian Thompson
- Jun 30, 2019
- 4 min
Home on the Range Update
Back in February, we posted our plans to build our Green Home on the Range. The new home will be our only residence and will also...
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Ian Thompson
- Jun 16, 2019
- 4 min
Ashela: A Choctaw Dish for the Woods or the Kitchen
The last couple of weeks have brought absolutely beautiful weather to our part of the world. The temperature has been pleasantly cool...
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Ian Thompson
- May 17, 2019
- 1 min
April Showers Bring...
In the last month, our farm has logged more than 10 inches of rainfall. As the old adage goes, April showers really do bring May flowers....
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Ian Thompson
- Apr 12, 2019
- 4 min
Talking with the Rocks
In precious little bits of free time over the last couple of weeks, I (Ian) have been working on a small flintknapping project....
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Ian Thompson
- Mar 29, 2019
- 5 min
Bombs Away!
This spring, we're experimenting with a fun way to plant seeds, using something called "seed bombs". In this post, we'll share the story...
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Ian Thompson
- Mar 15, 2019
- 4 min
Lambsquarter Stew
Back in 2015, Ian began putting together a book about Indigenous Choctaw food, during spare time. Due to the complexity of the subject,...
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Ian Thompson
- Feb 24, 2019
- 5 min
Building A Green Home on the Range
Earlier this month, we closed on the sale of our starter farm (a home and 13 acres). With the funds from that sale, we’ll finally be...
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Ian Thompson
- Feb 13, 2019
- 5 min
Harvest
Our goal in managing the Nana Awaya Heritage Farmstead is to learn how to adapt Choctaw traditional culture to modern realities in a way...
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Ian Thompson
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min
Rumors of Our Death Have Been Exaggerated
While, we haven’t actually heard any rumors floating around about the demise of the Nan Awaya Heritage Farmstead, with our last post...
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Ian Thompson
- Nov 12, 2018
- 4 min
Goin' to the Big Sale
Tail up, the 2,000 pound animal lets out a bellow that sounds more like a roar of an enraged lion than a noise that a grass-eater should...
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Ian Thompson
- Jun 24, 2018
- 4 min
Managing to Heal the Land
Indigenous people all over the world learned how to manage their lands by facilitating natural processes to achieve the results they...
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Ian Thompson
- Jun 17, 2018
- 3 min
Hvsh Bissa (Blackberry Month)
We're currently in the height of Blackberry Month in the Choctaw calendar. This image is of some blackberries picked yesterday at the...
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Ian Thompson
- May 31, 2018
- 2 min
A Weekend of New Beginnings
This was our first full weekend off of work since February. It started off ominously when our truck broke down on Friday evening,...
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Ian Thompson
- May 13, 2018
- 2 min
Traditional Dyes Class with a very Special Guest
This has been a week of cultural exchange and friendship that we will never forget. The story sort of begins in the 1800s, when some...
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