Jonah Das is the editor of Illahee Rising, a non-profit geographic information service that identifies lost and neglectedNative American historic and cultural sites for inclusion on maps and in the historic record. He wrote Dudeville after fleeing a corporate job "back East" for a small town in Colorado, and a life of mountaineering, backcountry snowboarding & skiing, hang-gliding, and river running. He currently lives and works with his wife on a native tree and plant farm on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.