The Way of The Scout...attn:Morablades

[Trent Rock]

Morablades post on another thread got me thinking about Native American survivalism "philosophy"
(I haven't read any Tom Brown books
Isn't that his niche?
The Native American twist/philosophy of survivalism?
I was thinking of reading The Way of the Scout: A Native American Path to Finding Spiritual Meaning in a Physical World as my 1st Tom brown book.....)
Any comments/recommendations on his books is greatly welcomed :thumbup:
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Talking to and being around some of the Native American people in North Georgia. Most of them were mixed White and Cherokee. One of them took me around Dahlonega and showed me all of what was his ancestor's land. He also showed me craft skills and some leather work. I pretty much went out and found these natives and asked them a bunch of questions. I would talk to them for a good while. Well, they did most of the talking. From one man I learned about the traditional Native American meaning of animals. That's what led me into nature. It's very tied in with the Native culture in so many ways.

That is pretty interesting Morablades
I have thought about checking out Native American "ways" myself!!

I have read some cool stuff on how the Native Americans treat/revere bears
They would be starving and they would kill a bear
It helped them to survive a few more days
But...They were so apologetic to killing the bear
They would perform a ceremony with the head and ask for it's forgiveness
Then they would put the head in a boiling pot of water and eat it

From The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters by Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941)

When a bear was killed the hunter lit his pipe, and putting the mouth of it between the bear’s lips, blew into the bowl, filling the beast’s mouth with smoke. Then he begged the bear not to be angry at having been killed, and not to thwart him afterwards in the chase. The carcase was roasted whole and eaten; not a morsel of the flesh might be left over. The head, painted red and blue, was hung on a post and addressed by orators, who heaped praise on the dead beast. When men of the Bear clan in the Ottawa tribe killed a bear, they made him a feast of his own flesh, and addressed him thus: “Cherish us no grudge because we have killed you. You have sense; you see that our children are hungry. They love you and wish to take you into their bodies. Is it not glorious to be eaten by the children of a chief?” Amongst the Nootka Indians of British Columbia, when a bear had been killed, it was brought in and seated before the head chief in an upright posture, with a chief’s bonnet, wrought in figures, on its head, and its fur powdered over with white down. A tray of provisions was then set before it, and it was invited by words and gestures to eat. After that the animal was skinned, boiled, and eaten.

So next time I catch a trout I'm gonna light up a Marlboro Light and blow it into the dead fish's gills
"I'm sorry I caught you with a #8 Eagle Claw!!!!"

But the savage clearly cannot afford to spare all animals. He must either eat some of them or starve, and when the question thus comes to be whether he or the animal must perish, he is forced to overcome his superstitious scruples and take the life of the beast. At the same time he does all he can to appease his victims and their kinsfolk. Even in the act of killing them he testifies his respect for them, endeavours to excuse or even conceal his share in procuring their death, and promises that their remains will be honourably treated. By thus robbing death of its terrors, he hopes to reconcile his victims to their fate and to induce their fellows to come and be killed also. For example, it was a principle with the Kamtchatkans never to kill a land or sea animal without first making excuses to it and begging that the animal would not take it ill. Also they offered it cedarnuts and so forth, to make it think that it was not a victim but a guest at a feast. They believed that this hindered other animals of the same species from growing shy. For instance, after they had killed a bear and feasted on its flesh, the host would bring the bear’s head before the company, wrap it in grass, and present it with a variety of trifles. Then he would lay the blame of the bear’s death on the Russians, and bid the beast wreak his wrath upon them. Also he would ask the bear to inform the other bears how well he had been treated, that they too might come without fear. Seals, sea-lions, and other animals were treated by the Kamtchatkans with the same ceremonious respect. Moreover, they used to insert sprigs of a plant resembling bear’s wort in the mouths of the animals they killed; after which they would exhort the grinning skulls to have no fear but to go and tell it to their fellows, that they also might come and be caught and so partake of this splendid hospitality. When the Ostiaks have hunted and killed a bear, they cut off its head and hang it on a tree. Then they gather round in a circle and pay it divine honours. Next they run towards the carcase uttering lamentations and saying, “Who killed you? It was the Russians. Who cut off your head? It was a Russian axe. Who skinned you? It was a knife made by a Russian.”

http://books.google.com/books?id=sRQuzMWCLhUC&pg=PA216&lpg=PA216&dq=rodgers+jewitt+captured&source=web&ots=EC2BEOpHu-&sig=ZAZSjwHiHNPNMGgyNWdqU33wAmA#PPA94,M1