"Whispers of the Ancients helps us reconnect with the spirit of story that is a part of all our heritages. With respect for the wisdom of the past and with an eye toward the cross-cultural links that legends can make between us, Tamarack Song offers a gathering of tales and insightful comments that point the way back to the circle." ---Joseph Bruchac, author of more than 70 books for children and adults, including (with coauthor Michael J. Caduto) the best-selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children It's easy to imagine yourself transported back to a time when an Elder might have told stories like those in Whispers of the Ancients around a glowing hearth. Thanks to Tamarack Song's storytelling skills, monsters, heroes, and shapeshifters come alive and open a doorway to the mysteries of life. Easily accessible to all ages, this is a book that speaks to each person at his or her own level of comprehension and need. It is as beautiful to read as it is to look at. Stunning Aboriginal artwork by Moses (Amik) Beaver combines with provocative storytelling to renew, in all their traditional splendor, exceptional legends from around the world. Entertaining, profound, passionate, glorious---these are stories that illustrate and evoke themes common to everyone's life, with an ancient wisdom that helps the listener to cope with today's opportunities for tenderness, grief, passion, and irony. Easily accessible to all ages, this is a book that speaks to each person at his or her own level of comprehension and need. It's as beautiful to read as it is to look at.

Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time

Song, Tamarack

Humor & Entertainment

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN REGIONAL

"Whispers of the Ancients helps us reconnect with the spirit of story that is a part of all our heritages. With respect for the wisdom of the past and with an eye toward the cross-cultural links that legends can make between us, Tamarack Song offers a gathering of tales and insightful comments that point the way back to the circle."---Joseph Bruchac, author of more than 70 books for children and adults, including (with coauthor Michael J. Caduto) the best-selling Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for ChildrenIt's easy to imagine yourself transported back to a time when an Elder might have told stories like those in Whispers of the Ancients around a glowing hearth. Thanks to Tamarack Song's storytelling skills, monsters, heroes, and shapeshifters come alive and open a doorway to the mysteries of life. Easily accessible to all ages, this is a book that speaks to each person at his or her own level of comprehension and need. It is as beautiful to read as it is to look at.Stunning Aboriginal artwork by Moses (Amik) Beaver combines with provocative storytelling to renew, in all their traditional splendor, exceptional legends from around the world. Entertaining, profound, passionate, glorious---these are stories that illustrate and evoke themes common to everyone's life, with an ancient wisdom that helps the listener to cope with today's opportunities for tenderness, grief, passion, and irony.Easily accessible to all ages, this is a book that speaks to each person at his or her own level of comprehension and need. It's as beautiful to read as it is to look at.

Whether you are faced with an extreme survival situation, or you're simply wanting to obtain animals without hunting or trapping, this book will show you how to find, process, and preserve meat without anything but a knife. You'll learn how to safely assess an animal carcass to determine whether it's safe to eat - a vital skill that could save your life. There are also special sections on roadkill and making pemmican - the most nourishing and long-lasting survival food. The instructions contained within this book are well tested, and easy to follow, as Tamarack and his family have lived for over forty years almost exclusively on scavenged meat and hand-caught fish. In an extreme survival situation, this is one book you don't want to be without. It belongs in every backpack, glove compartment, and survival kit, so it will be there when you need it.

Extreme Survival Meat: A Guide for Safe Scavenging, Pemmican Making, and Roadkill

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Snow Wolf Publishing

Here are the beloved Zen awareness-raising stories, collected by the author of the award-winning Zen classic, Song of Trusting the Heart. Over a fifty-year period, the author selected stories from ancient documents and the oral tradition for this 400-plus page archival corpus. In what may be the most comprehensive published collection of Zen stories, the reader is taken back to the classical time when Sage and Seeker sat together and reflected on the deep truths these stories embody. With the Quest for Awakening being intrinsic to the human experience, these tales are just as vibrant today as when they were first told.Each of us is Sage and Seeker, Scholar and Fool. We find these aspects of ourselves mired in confusion,struggling with paradox, and ecstatic with flashes of enlightenment as page-by-page we take this beguiling Journey into the Void.

Zen Rising: 366 Sage Stories to Enkindle Your Days

Religion & Spirituality

With nearly 600 citations from his doctorate research and forty-seven years of experience designing forest bathing trails, Tamarack Song has given us the most comprehensive book on the subject. Here is the endorsement of M. Amos Clifford, Founder of the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs and author of Your Guide to Forest Bathing: "Tamarack Song's vision for healing nature trails is an important and timely addition to the literature on forest therapy. Besides presenting a solid overview of recent science on the healing power of nature, he walks the reader along a path with surprising twists and turns, all in support of joyful connection to the earth and its many beings." In select nooks of Nature, there are trails specially designed to maximize the healing properties of flowing water, elder trees, and wildflower essences. Chipmunks scamper about, a fox gingerly weaves her way across the meadow, and a sprightly warbler alights on a branch in front of you. In such company, merely walking barefoot, breathing the air, and drinking in the setting become healing exercises. For an intimate look at a Healing Nature Trail, watch the video at www.healingnaturecenter.org. Healing Nature Trails are nestled in sanctuaries reserved exclusively for those seeking Nature's guidance and healing touch. Healthcare practitioners bring their clients, and people of all persuasions come to restore body, mind, and spirit, and to renew their relationship with Nature. This book serves as a comprehensive guide for all trail users, with in-depth sections that give: <li>&#9687;&#9687; A multidisciplinary overview of the healing power of Nature. <li>&#9687;&#9687; A guided Healing Nature Trail tour. <li>&#9687;&#9687; A workbook for establishing Healing Nature Trails. <li>&#9687;&#9687; A description of the Trail Guide training program. Tamarack Song learned about the healing powers of Nature through academic study, apprenticing to Native shamans and herbalists, living with a pack of Wolves, and residing in the wilds for most of his life. He currently lives in the Nicolet National Forest, where he keeps in touch with the Wolves and other medicine animals and plants with whom he works. Tamarack serves as executive director of the Healing Nature Center, and he co-founded Healing Nature Trails. He has academic training in Stress Management, Ethics, Therapeutic Breathwork, Conservation, and Nonprofit Corporation Management. The author of books on shamanic trance healing, suicide prevention, spirit animal guides, animal tracking, Truthspeaking, Native-inspired childrearing, and Zen, he also serves as an environmental restoration and outdoor expedition consultant.As founder of the Teaching Drum Outdoor School, he has developed management strategies for the psycho-emotional challenges unique to wilderness experiences. He has taught conflict resolution and indigenous living skills, herbalism, and dream therapy for forty years.

The Healing Nature Trail: Forest Bathing for Recovery and Awakening

Bowker

Here is an introduction to Forest Bathing, as seen through the eyes of someone who is experiencing it for the first time. Whether you are being guided or going solo, and whether it’s on a Healing Nature Trail or another pathway, this book prepares you for your restorative and re-awakening Nature-immersion experience. On these pages, you’ll find grounding in many Nature-based therapies and ways to mindfully reconnect with Nature, along with a journey to self-discovery through Nature’s guiding voices. The text is based on excerpts from The Healing Nature Trail: Forest Bathing for Recovery and Awakening, by Tamarack Song. Please see that book for comprehensive coverage of the health benefits, history, design, and management of Healing Nature Trails, along with extensive references and a description of Healing Nature Guide training.

A Forest Bathing Companion: Learn About Nature's Rejuvenating Powers On a Healing Nature Trail Walk

Bowkers

Imagine a place where there are no lieswhere gossip is just a meaningless wordand people naturally speak with respectThe air is not laced with cursingand there is no shame or judgmentThe expression of all feelings is welcomedEven anger and fear are regarded as giftsIn this place, you can trust in another's wordThere is no need for doctrineas each person knows her own TruthEven without it being spoken you can read it in her HeartEveryone’s Truth is heardas listening is valued even more than talkingAnd each person’s voice is held sacredThere is no need to sweeten it with humoror mask it with doublespeakThey call this, their cherished way of sharing,TruthspeakingI wrote this book for one reason—to incite a revolution of the Heart. For too long we have been taught to say what others would like to hear, and what makes rational rather than relational sense. We have been encouraged to be assertive, but we have not learned how to listen. To tell the truth is our ideal, yet most of us tell dozens of lies every day.A Zen koan encourages us to speak our Truths without punishing. In the coming pages, we will reacquaint ourselves with a way of life based on the gentle, clear, and heartfelt communication which the American Indian Elders I apprenticed to called Truthspeaking.Notice that I said “reacquaint.” You and I already know Truthspeaking: we are genetically programmed to be spontaneous, in-the-now beings with astute expressive and listening skills. We evolved the ability as a matter of survival.It is only since we have become urbanized that we have begun protecting ourselves by suppressing our thoughts and feelings—and defending ourselves from the thoughts and feelings of others. This book shows how to dissolve those boundaries, so that we can again say what we really mean and hear what people are really saying.About the author When Tamarack Song was a child, he got to regularly practice Truthspeaking with the wild animals in the extensive woods and wetlands which comprised his backyard. As a young man, he lived for several years with a pack of Wolves. After that, he learned the human nuances of Truthspeaking from Menominee, Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Hopi, Iroquois, Australian Aboriginal, and Maygar Elders. They taught him much of the terminology and phrasing you’ll find in this book. He augmented this organic tutelage with his lifelong academic study of nature, language, anthropology, and indigenous cultures.

Truthspeaking: Ancestral Ways to Hear and Speak the Voice of the Heart

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This book is an unabashed and unsentimental response to our repressed longing: to dance to the drum, to circle the ritual fire, to know healing lore from times when plants spoke, and to walk again in the balance of the earth. Tamarack Song teaches that the lifeways of all Native peoples are essentially one, sharing not only the same ceremonies and life transitions, but the same spirit and reverence for life. Regardless of ethnic background or religious upbringing, we all are essentially Native people who have lost our original voice. In regaining that lost voice we make discoveries. Native lifeways - the Ways of the Guardian Warrior, the caretaking of children, and reverence for elders - are intrinsic to all human experience. Native traditional practices - moon ritual, seeking a mentor, and honoring male and female energy - encourage hidden spiritual powers to manifest. There is a human capacity for healing that can only be discovered by returning to balance with Earth Mother.

Journey to the Ancestral Self: Remembering What It Is to Be Human

Self-Help

Have you ever wondered what it's like to live entirely immersed in Nature - to gather your own food, travel by canoe, and live in community with your extended family? Here, in intimate detail, you receive a vibrant picture of drying berries in the sunshine, raising children to be wild and free, and gathering around the evening hearth to hear the Elders' stories.Reading Fat Moons and Hunger Moons gives you the feeling of living in a traditional camp, as the author, Tamarack Song, has lived it himself. Having been a primitive skills instructor for the past thirty years, Tamarack has a knack for giving you the sense that you are the one out there, breathing in the rich scents of the forest.The engaging artwork of Moses (Amik) Beaver brings the scene all the more to life, as he draws his inspiration from growing up in a remote Canadian Aboriginal community where he practiced much of what you read about in this book.Although coming from different cultures, Moses and Tamarack saw each other as brothers. They both cherished the deep Nature connection and rich relationships they found in what they called the Circle Way of Life. Due to Moses's untimely passing, Fat Moons and Hunger Moons turned out to be their last collaborative effort. The book is dedicated to the life and memory of Moses - a man who worked tirelessly and lovingly to restore the ways of Honor and Respect for all life.

Fat Moons and Hunger Moons: The Turn of the Seasons for Northwoods Natives

History

Beaver, Moses Amik

Americas

Some call him Scout, many would call him Warrior, and still others know him as Protector. To Native people he is Guardian. He is the manifestation of their courage, selflessness, and desire to serve. The Guardian can be female or male, old or young. He is invisible, alert, and detached. He is sentry, wayfinder, messenger, ambassador, sleuth, defender, provider, brother, and sister. His presence gives peace of mind to his people so that they can comfortably pursue their day's activities and rest peacefully at night.In this day, the Guardian is needed again by his people, perhaps like never before. This book guides you to where he can be found within yourself. You may be surprised to discover how close he lives to your heart. All people need protection--from the weather, a natural disaster, or sometimes perhaps from an "enemy," other times from the burdens of clan and family, and occasionally even from ourselves. The Guardian is trained to serve as a protector in all of these ways.Perhaps most importantly, the Guardian protects her people's state of well-being, by helping to assure a low level of stress and a high level of personal satisfaction in life. She fills in when parents need a helping hand. She protects and defends someone who is being persecuted or falsely accused. She stands up for the exploited and disadvantaged. She protects people from their own folly, from their shortsightedness and errors of judgment. Functioning from a place of greater perspective, she is able to foresee what peril looms ahead.When a Guardian meets conflict on her mission, her high degree of training in methods of camouflage, avoidance, and deception allows her to minimize her impact upon others. She has a highly attuned spiritual sense; she understands that the Lifeforce in others is the same substance that flows through her, so she grants those who stand in her Path the utmost respect and space. If there is no other way to navigate around them, she removes them in the least disruptive and harmful way possible. When she has no choice but to fight, the Guardian does not fight against anything or anyone; she fights for Balance, connection, and respect for all creatures on Earth.This book is a complete Guardian training manual, giving you the awarenesses, diet, and exercises to bring out your fullest performance potential. First, you meet the traditional Guardian; then, you find the Guardian within you. You discover how you can serve your people and your mother planet with the same sense of purpose and service as the Guardians of old. And just as importantly, you gain the deep sense of fulfillment that comes from performing at your creative, physical, intellectual, and intuitive peak.

Like a Shadow: The Life and Training of a Guardian Warrior

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Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time

Whispers of the Ancients: Native Tales for Teaching and Healing in Our Time

Extreme Survival Meat: A Guide for Safe Scavenging, Pemmican Making, and Roadkill

Zen Rising: 366 Sage Stories to Enkindle Your Days

The Healing Nature Trail: Forest Bathing for Recovery and Awakening

A Forest Bathing Companion: Learn About Nature's Rejuvenating Powers On a Healing Nature Trail Walk

Truthspeaking: Ancestral Ways to Hear and Speak the Voice of the Heart

Journey to the Ancestral Self: Remembering What It Is to Be Human

Fat Moons and Hunger Moons: The Turn of the Seasons for Northwoods Natives

Like a Shadow: The Life and Training of a Guardian Warrior