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Ways
to Get Involved
Opportunities
here at the Teaching Drum
Wilderness
Guide Program - May 1st 2008 to April 1st 2009
This is a
one-of-a-kind program; it has
no set agenda, no books, no
mechanized transportation.
Not even plastic water bottles.
Rather, it
is the native approach; one-on-one
and geared specifically
to you, a
real living-learning experience in the wilderness.
Wild
Moon Immersions at Mashkodens primitive camp - see page for
current sessions
Envision
yourself in a Native encampment with like-minded individuals
who are
living the life: trapping, wild ricing, cooking primitively...
Volunteers
We gladly welcome volunteers to
our Circle. There is much to learn and
experience by taking part in daily life and activities here at Teaching
Drum. Volunteers work directly with staff at our support camp
(Nadmadweniing). At Nadmadweniing we will work at various
projects
which run the gamut from binding self-published books to carpentry work
on some of our many old cabins. We have many needs here at
the
School and currently they are as follows:
You
may print out and complete a volunteer
application form
and mail it to us along with the
appropriate
payment at: |
Teaching Drum
Attn: Susan Bean
7124 Military Rd
Three Lakes, WI 54562 |
Volunteering
is serving and requires self-motivated individuals who will follow
through with activities. It is not a vacation but rather an
opportunity to work to a different rhythm than we are accustomed to
among individuals who are healing their relationship with All The
Relations. Tasks include both solo and group projects. With
all of this in mind, we suggest you come here knowing that giving is
receiving - when one gives one also receives.
Duration:
Typically one week to a few months.
Cost:
We ask for a $11 a day ($77 per week) contribution to cover the cost of
food.
Please contact
us to express your interest or for further inquiries |
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Opportunities
in cyber-space
Join the Teaching Drum E-Group at Yahoo.com
Our
E-Group is a place for discussions on Native
Lifeway & spirituality, primitive living skills, Balance,
self-discovery, personal healing, Attunement and other related
topics.
In a sense it serves as an
electronic
extension of the Teaching Drum Outdoor School.
Join the Wildhearted
Ones E-Group
The Native Lifeway community has one need has not been adequately
addressed until now: a way for single people to meet each other. We are
so widely scattered that, other than a few annual gatherings, there is
no common hearth to gather around. A few of us have gotten
together and decided to change that by starting an online group
specifically for Earth-oriented people seeking relationship. It is open
to people of all sexual persuasions and relationship-type references.
Come, sit by the fire, and let's get to know each other. We'll share
our personal stories, our visions, and our dreams for relationship. You
just never know, the person intended for you may well be right here,
sitting across the fire from you.
Fund-raising in cyber-space
We now have a new way to raise money for Teaching
Drum while using the internet.
With Goodsearch.com, a websearch engine
powered by Yahoo, we earn about 1 penny per internet search.
The
searches are reliable (from Yahoo) and you can check anytime to see how
much Teaching Drum has raised.
If we all use Goodsearch for
our primary internet search engine, and encourage family and friends to
do the same, we will be able to raise a significant amount for the
school.
Click the button above to get started, or go
to Goodsearch.com and enter 'Teaching Drum'" under 'Who do you
Goodsearch for?' and click Verify. After the first time you do this
Teaching Drum will automatically come up as the charity you search for
as long as you have not deleted the Goodsearch cookie.
You
can also download the Goodsearch
toolbar so that you can use Goodsearch from the toolbar in
the upper righthand corner of your browser.
Additionally, by going to Goodshop.com
and clicking through before purchasing from major online retailers
(like Amazon, Ebay, and many more) Teaching Drum will get a donation
from the sale ranging from 1.5 - 37%.
Thanks to all
of you who choose to Goodsearch and Goodshop with us! |
| Opportunities
in Northern Wisconsin
"Our
ancestors' land has
been invaded for maximum exploitation of natural resources."
- Siberian Tribesman, Russia
Join
us in supporting our Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa neighbors in
protecting the Wolf River watershed by donating to the Wolf River
Protection Fund.
Brother Wolf Foundation
Wolves are Tamarack's kin; he's lived with them and he's helped them
return to areas where they have been exterminated. His dream has long
been to establish a sanctuary for rescued caged Wolves who cannot be
returned to the wilds. This would be a place where people can come to
touch the face of wildness and reawaken to the ancient Wolf-human
relationship by being with the Wolves. To find out more and join in
this great venture, visit the new Brother
Wolf Foundation website. |
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Opportunities
around the
world
"When
you
take a man from his land, you take his life
spirit." -- Aborigine, Australia
Join us in supporting the good work of Survival
International
Start by signing
a petition supporting the land rights of the Bushmen of the
Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Survival
is an international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide,
and works for their rights in three complementary ways: education,
advocacy and campaigns. Survival also offers tribal people themselves a
platform to address the world, and works closely with local indigenous
organizations. Survival's focus is on tribal peoples who have the most
to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the industrial
world.
Survival's
educational programs set out to demolish the myth that tribal peoples
are relics, destined to perish through 'progress', while at the same
time promoting respect for their cultures and explaining the
contemporary relevance of their way of life.
Survival
runs worldwide campaigns to fight for tribal peoples. These campaigns
are not only directed toward governments, but multinational
corporations, banks, extremist missionaries, guerrilla armies, narrow
minded conservationists or anyone else who violates tribal peoples'
rights. |
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Opportunities
in Your
Neighborhood
Liberate
your lawn! Are
you tired of looking at monotonous lawn after lawn after
lawn? Are you sick of having to mow and trim? Do you wish you
could
do
your part to help the Earth Mother be as she once was? Both
the National Wildlife
Federation and Windstar Wildlife Institute
have programs to help you transform your lawn into a mini natural area
-- and have it be acceptable to your neighbors and the civil
authorities! NWF's program is called Backyard Wildlife
Habitat,
and Certified Wildlife Habitat is Windstar's. Both offer technical
assistance and, once your lawn qualifies, you receive signed
certification and an attractive sign that will educate passersby and
inform them of your certification. To find out what the
Teaching
Drum has done, click
here.
Track your own
native ancestry through National
Geographic's Genographic Project.
From
their website: Who was your first ancestor? The National Geographic
Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation
have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand
the human journey where we came from and how we got to where we live
today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity's genetic journey
through the ages. | |
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