Well, I'm joining the 21st Century by beginning my blog. I'm a writer who has spent most of my career writing science and nature books for children, but also do travel and food writing for adults. I want to use this blog to communicate with people interested in my life and my work. so here goes.
My most recent published book is "The Buffalo and the Indians: A Shared Destiny," published by Clarion Books. My photographer, William Munoz, who took this photo, and I, have always had a special affinity for buffalo, and the relationship between these powerful animals and Plains Tribes has been going on for thousands of years. In the past, buffalo provided both physical and spiritual sustainance for the Indians. Then whites took over western North America and almost wiped out both the Indians and the buffalo. Today, many tribes are acquiring buffalo herds to help them reconnect with the natural world. This book gave us both the opportunity to get to know some wonderful tribal members and to learn more about Indian spiritual life. By the way, most Indians we know use that term to describe themselves rather than the term "Native American" which is considered correct in the general media.
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Hello Dorothy - Since this is about your life and work, how about going back nearly forty years to when I used to drag you out on cold nights to watch your basket stars spawn. Do you remember? And baby David slept soundly away in his cardboard box. And I would watch Greg turn slightly green aboard the MV Hydah as we sieved the ocean for our research sharks. I live in Tonga now and a brief search of bayviewtonga will find me out. Remember how you and Greg liked the puzzles published in the New Yorker and you were always ordering this or that special utensil for your cooking pastime? You two are an inspiration to me and I send this to you with the greatest of fondness. If I have learned anything from you it is to follow your interests.
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