Tracker Family Camp
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Category
Family Courses
Organized by
4 Elements Earth Education
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For Everybody
About this Course
Our annual Tracker Family Camp is running in the magical Pine Barrens Primitive Camp -- Thanks to Tom Brown Jr.
Spend the week with us learning the ancient skills of our ancestors. Reconnect with Mother Earth and restore your sense of Hope in the human family.
We look forward to recalling the **Old Ways**, sitting around the campfire with friends and family, sharing stories, gratitude, and laughter!
We cannot wait to see you again! \- Rick Berry
Iterations
Contents
Shelter, Water, Fire, Food. Tracking, Community, Village.
Structure
Weeklong overnight in the Pine Barrens Primitive Camp.
Prerequisites
None,
all ages welcome
Packing List
Basic Camping gear.
- list sent upon registration
Board & Overnight
Bring your own tent
Cost Structure
3 levels of pricing.
Based on first family member and additional family members.
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Teachers
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Rick Berry
Founder / Director
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Tam Andrews
Operations Director & Instructor
Rick Berry
Rick Berry
Founder / Director
Rick Berry began with the Tracker School in 1986 at the age of 15, and has been teaching these skills for the past 30 years. After graduating with a B.S. from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA, Rick honed his skills in the remote Klamath Mountain range where he immersed himself for 12 years in indigenous life-ways--passed on to him by Gary Morris who himself had lived with Yurok Elder Calvin Rube for 20 years. Later, Rick spent two years in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey as a care-taker for the Tracker School, refining his tracking and survival skills. Rick taught with both Jon Young and Tom Brown, Jr. through the Tracker School’s Coyote Camps, and moved on to serve seven years as Director of The Children of the Earth Foundation. Read Letter From Tom Brown from 2010. Rick, Cherokee Descent, (Grandmother was part of the Red Bird Stokes Stomp Ground in Vian, Oklahoma), has been working in collaboration with the Siakumne Maidu Tribe for the past 14 years creating the Fox Walkers youth programs at Pata Panaka / Burton Educational Preserve in Nevada City, CA. In 2019 Rick was asked to be the Executive Director of The Children of the Earth Foundation; Rick will oversee Coyote Tracks Programs under the 4EEE west coast non-profit umbrella.
Tam Andrews
Tam Andrews
Operations Director & Instructor
Tam was born & raised in South Africa and has always had an appreciation for wild animals and nature. Tam has studied Earth Skills for the last 9 years attending the Tracker School in NJ as a student then completed the intern program and later as a Caretaker. Tam also attended programs at Tribal Edge and Earthwalk Northwest in the PNW. In 2016 & 2017, Tam helped develop, implement and teach a primitive skills program at a Summer Camp in Alberta Canada. Tam loves being in the mountains, hiking, camping, foraging and is passionate about basketry and pottery. It’s Tam’s vision to create a sacred space for the great mystery to unfold, for voices to be heard and to be a witness of transformation and growth. Honoring the old ways, to connect to the earth in a way that allows us to flourish and grow. Learning its secrets, respecting our part in the environment and honoring the gifts nature has to offer.
Venue
Pine Barrens Primitive Camp
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About the Organizer
4 Elements Earth Education
4 Elements Earth Education (4EEE) is a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit. Home of the Fox Walkers Youth Programs, CA and Coyote Tracks Youth Programs, PA/ NJ Our Mission is to offer programs that guide Children, Families, and Teens toward a pure connection to the Earth through direct experiences in Nature.
4EEE offers programs that introduce Earth Skills, which are a blend of the ancient arts of tracking, wilderness survival, and nature awareness. Our curriculum and experienced instructors give children, teens and adults first-hand experience of how to 'read' the landscape as stewards of the Earth. Through our programs, a re-thinking of our relationship to nature begins to occur. Nature is not simply a resource that we control as a product; it is a relationship we must cultivate. At 4EEE we offer the tools for our youth to be self-reliant in the natural world through learning the 4 Elements of survival: Shelter, Water, Fire, and Food. This creates a foundation for a young person to find their vision in life
Indigenous Values and Accountability : As a non-profit organization that teaches Earth Skills, we firmly believe that we are intrinsically bound to honor Indigenous Peoples, as this is where we gained our teachings from. Don Ryberg, Chairman of the Siakumne Tribe and Juan Villarreal of the Southern Lipan Apache are active Board Members of 4EEE.
4EEE and the Siakumne Tribe are in partnership with the common goal of educating ourselves and our youth. In this endeavor 4EEE has agreed to the entire Burton Educational Preserve to be sanctioned by the Siakumne Tribe and thus the entire ancient Village site to continue as it had under the Indigenous Land Stewardship ways for thousands of years. For 15 years 4EEE has been in collaboration with the Lipan Apache Tribe offering youth programs. 4EEE is moving towards a long term partnership with the Tribe and creating programs at the "Red Sun " ranch with Juan Villarreal in South Texas.
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Tracker Family Camp
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