  Motivated by simulation results for octet and decuplet baryon masses using
2+1 flavors of light staggered quarks, we are incorporating staggered lattice
artifacts into heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory, calculating the masses
of various staggered baryons, and studying the connection between the staggered
baryons of the chiral theory and the staggered baryons of simulations. We
present order (m_q)^(3/2) loop contributions to the masses of several staggered
nucleons and discuss interpolating fields that create these states.
