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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...
Ian Thompson
Oct 16, 20193 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Oct 4, 20194 min read
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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. ...
Ian Thompson
Oct 2, 20194 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Sep 7, 20195 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Jun 30, 20194 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Jun 16, 20194 min read
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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....
Ian Thompson
May 17, 20191 min read
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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....
Ian Thompson
Apr 12, 20194 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Mar 29, 20195 min read
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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,...
Ian Thompson
Mar 15, 20194 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Feb 24, 20195 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Feb 12, 20195 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Jan 2, 20192 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Nov 11, 20184 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Jun 24, 20184 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
Jun 17, 20183 min read
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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,...
Ian Thompson
May 31, 20182 min read
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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...
Ian Thompson
May 13, 20182 min read
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The Plants that Tie Us Together
When we think about Native American clothing of the past, buckskin is the material that usually comes to mind. Rarely do we picture...
Ian Thompson
Apr 25, 20182 min read
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A Day with Yappali
On Saturday, we were honored to have Yappali come to the Nan Awaya Heritage Farmstead. Yappali is an amazing group of Choctaw women (and...
Ian Thompson
Apr 8, 20182 min read
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