A few winged friends spotted today in my prairie garden 💚 #butterfly #dragonfly #nativeplants #nature

Planted today now that the heat has broken: 6 little ᎦᏱᎪᎩ redbud saplings, a ᏥᏳᎦᎵ New Jersey tea start, 2 asters, and several clumps of ᎠᏂ ᎢᎾᎨ ᎡᎯ wild strawberry #nativeplants

Another of my enemies: invasive multiflora rose. Taking over roadsides and forests here too.

Look at the pollen pants on this little sweat bee. Daisy fleabane is always welcome to volunteer in our yard. 💛🖤 #nativeplants #bees

only holiday i recognize today

First monarch butterfly, ᎧᎹᎹ ᎤᏲᏎ in ᏣᎳᎩ Cherokee, of the year! #nativeplants #butterflies

I actually don’t care what the founding fathers would say about the present and I don’t think you should either

A fritillary butterfly enjoyed the coneflower nectar for hours yesterday. When it moved on an Eastern yellow swallowtail came for hours. They were the only butterflies I saw, but they’re beautiful and it made me feel good that we had provided for them. #nativeplants #gardening #butterflies #maryland

How to conserve water and ensure your plants survive during drought and heat in the Northeast www.boston.com/real-estate/...

I sat down with @KOSU to talk about my new podcast FIRST AMERICA & why Native history isn't a sidebar—it's THE story. www.kosu.org/rebecca-nagl...

Join me in Philadelphia on August 1 for a day of indigenous storytelling, ceremony, presentations, and shared visioning. I’ll be part of the afternoon session panel The Climate Crisis Is Not Neutral. It’s free and meals are provided. Register and join us!

I grew up on the Kankakee. It’s a very deceptively beautiful yet treacherous river. Knowing we have our own rare and unique mallow found in the wild on only one island in this river makes perfect sense to me.

An American copper, ᎠᎵᏂ in Cherokee, visits our mountain mint #nativeplants

BREAKING the Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s attempt to strip citizenship from the children of undocumented and temporarily documented immigrants. In his dissent, Justice Thomas explains why Native Americans weren’t citizens of the U.S. under the 14th Amendment.

A few Common Whitetails from yesterday's hike 📍Nachusa Grasslands #dragonfly #insects #bugsky #nature

The heat is getting to be really insufferable and the skunk cabbages, being amongst Earth’s most intelligent lifeforms, are set to wither away and return to their underground swamp caves soon where it stays nice and cool. No, you can’t come. 🌿 #wetlands #nature

One of our first butterfly visitors of the year! An American painted lady, ᏥᏓᏫ in Cherokee, visits our swamp milkweed #nativeplants

NICE: @rebecca Nagle and Phil DeLoria discuss how in the early republic pretending to be Indian symbolized freedom and helped the colonists form a new, national identity.

Hey @hellabarnes.bsky.social did you get your tattoo yet? I have social media attention invested in this story!

Those alt gov accounts that arose after 2016 are grifters. One of the top posts yesterday was @altnoaa.bsky.social posting an AI image of a beluga whale "escaping captivity to reunite with her baby." In response to being told it was AI, the poster said AI is good, actually, for evoking emotions.

Squash vine borer visits our common milkweed #nativeplants

"Tracing this history back to the nation’s founding, as illuminated by the new First America podcast series, reveals how Native resistance has radically shaped U.S. history, laying the groundwork for its most violent conflicts and unchecked militarism." open.substack.com/pub/nickeste...

Then I got to team up with @rebeccanagle.bsky.social again to put together a brilliant team and make her new show called First America. It'll blow your mind how everything happening in the US today is rooted in what the US did to Indigenous people. It launched Monday! www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/fir...

Let’s hear it for wasps this Pollinator Week! Isodontia Mexicana visits our New Jersey tea 🖤 #nativeplants

For Pollinator Week, a lineup of the some of the familiar bees that make their home in my garden. I have been adding native plants for them for three years. IDs in alt text. #PollinatorWeek #bees #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

On Wednesday, July 8 at 12pm ET, Museum of the Cherokee People hosts ‘Listen, Lunch, & Learn: Cherokees in the American Revolution,’ a virtual panel discussion with me and leading Native scholars. Secure your spot today: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Poor soil, dry, nothing wants to grow in a blasting sun location? Get yourself some New Jersey tea, ᏥᏳᎦᎵ in Cherokee, and watch your bumbles go wild on its delicate white flowers! This is year 3 for this small shrub, and she’s really coming in to her own #nativeplants

Great Spangled Fritillary on Silky Dogwood #butterflies #nativeplants #photography

It is Pollinator Week and the #nativeplants feed has not updated in almost 2 days. Come on, Bluesky. 🤬

When we combine thoughtful and intentional plant choices with environmentally conscious maintenance practices, the results benefit us and local ecosystems. #nativeplants www.boston.com/real-estate/...

Wildflower seeds given to Massachusetts residents as part of the DCR Growing Wild events. If you need inspiration, start here. This mix was already cold stratified by New England Wetland Plants, according to staff at the event #nativeplants

ᎠᏔᏍᎩᏍᎩ milkweed buzzing with insect life #nativeplants

Had a helper while adding more native plants to the yard today! A silver spotted skipper ᎧᎹᎹ butterfly visits our common milkweed

Picked up a few new plants at the Massachusetts Growing Wild native plant giveaway yesterday! Sundrops and black-eyed Susans are joining the yard today.

Plant native plants. Leave the leaves. Stop using pesticides. Every native plant helps boost insects, which helps our beautiful birds.

I’m so excited! This is our first monarch caterpillar of the year! ᎤᎵᎮᎵᏍᏗ ᎠᏓᏁᏍᏓᎵ welcome caterpillar! #nativeplants

Look at this amazing #insect! I believe it's a Black Giant Icneumanoid Wasp, Megarhyssa atrata. This is a female, and that long "tail" is her ovipositor. She can drill into wood with it! #invertebrate

Sing it! Yellow-headed Blackbird sharing the “song” of his people #birds

The Dragonflies are out now too. Fun to see some on my last outing. #Dragonfly

I’d like to see a native plant medicines garden at every single public land grant university. Give back a bit of what was taken #landback

Common milkweed living up to her ᏣᎳᎩ Cherokee name of ᎠᏔᏍᎩᏍᎩ. She’s ready to explode with pale pink blooms #nativeplants

Black raspberry, rubus occidentalis, forming berries for our birds to enjoy. I know the humans won’t get any before our wildlife devour them! #nativeplants

bonus plants

🌼 boykin's milkwort 🌿 Senega boykinii formerly of genus Polygala this southern relative of Seneca snakeroot is only found in two contiguous counties in TN, in the middle of the nashville basin #nativeplants #ecoregion71

ᏥᎦᎵᎵ a black-capped chickadee takes a bath on this sweltering June day. If you have the space please add water sources of all sizes to your yards and native plant gardens. Our birds need all the help they can get in this oppressive heat.

ᎤᏍᏗ ᎧᎹᎹ little butterfly! A Peck’s skipper found the evening primrose added to our yard just yesterday evening #nativeplants

25 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains.

Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation: "Pride and Equality Are the Cherokee Way." nativenewsonline.net/opinion/prid...

We spotted a female American Goldfinch this morning eating seeds from the stems of monarda fistulosa left standing from last year’s blooms 💛 #nativeplants #savethestems

Don’t forget to get your tickets to BLIS Collective’s "Reclamation Day: A Reunion of Hope," on 6/20 in Brooklyn. I’ll be debuting my new podcast, First America, bringing forward stories that reclaim Native truth & history! Tickets and more info here: events.humanitix.com/reclamation-...