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I have listed the first preliminary posts first, then
the main one denouncing Tom Brown Jr.
Lyn Dearborn (lyn@anchor.engr.sgi.com)
Wed, 1 Feb 1995 19:58:25 GMT
Jordan Bacon asked:
>Does anyone know about the Tom Brown School of Tracking, and
would they give me some information/opinions about it? It may just be
this particular instructor, or it may be an attitude picked up from his
training?
The people to ask about his School of Tracking would be
someone like the guys who put on the "Rabbit Stick Rondezvous"
every fall up in Montana. There is also a Primitive Technology Society
that you could write to. Sorry I don't know anything about him ...
though I do know one "mtn. Man" that might have heard of him
... I'LL TRY to remember to ask him next month when we rendezvous at a
PowWow in N. Calif.
Lyn
wpowell@ccmail.sunysb.edu
Mon, 6 Feb 1995 23:18:37 GMT
I was at REI (Recreational Equipment Inc) in Atlanta, GA this weekend
and noticed three of the books by this person. The books say that he was
raised Apache. A friend of mine said he had read the books and said he
was impressed. So I know the books are available thru REI.
Will
James Roper (jroper@sas.upenn.edu)
Wed, 8 Feb 1995 04:46:34 GMT
I read some of his books as well. I can't figure out whether they were
impressive because we wanted them to be, or because they were true...
Also, he was not raised Apache, but rather he was in the Pine Barrens of
New Jersey when a friend (Apache) had a dad who was stationed in NJ, who
had a grandfather that taught him how to track. I am sure there is a
difference.
Jim
Lyn Dearborn (lyn@anchor.engr.sgi.com)
Wed, 8 Feb 1995 05:38:07 GMT
I have a copy of the May/June 1994 in front of me in an article written
by someone named Mark Baker called "Resigning My Domestic
Happiness; A Pilgrims's Journey" ... included in this article on
"period trekking" is a picture of Tom Brown fishing for trout
... the old way...
A month ago I'd never heard his name and now he's everywhere ... must be
a conspiracy!
Lyn
Tom Brown's Tracking School (NOT!)
Lyn Dearborn (lyn@anchor.engr.sgi.com)
Wed, 8 Feb 1995 17:34:04 GMT
>Does anyone know about the Tom Brown School of Tracking, and
would they
>give me some information/opinions about it? It may just be this
>particular instructor, or it may be an attitude picked up from
his training
TOM BROWN JR. IS A FRAUD; some of his tracking instructors
are pretty good. I have this info on him from the highest possible
source (except "God", who will "get him" in the long
run). Last night I spoke with a friend who is a Park Ranger & has
just returned from a week-long Rendezvous in Arizona with the folks from
the Society of Primitive Technology -- the group I recommended as a way
of checking out this turkey.
You were right in your gut feelings that he is should be
boycotted. He may have learned things since he initial training from
First Nations peoples, for which he will pay dearly in the future.
No, he was NOT raised by or with the Apaches; Stalking
Wolf, who supposedly trained him, doesn't exist. Tom Brown is from New
Jersey and "bought" what knowledge he has from the workshops
given through the Society of Primitive Technology. He actually learned
quite a lot ... but it was from the teachers there, not First Nation's
people that he got his knowledge. You were right in your gut feelings
that he should be boycotted. He may have learned things since his
initial training from First Nations peoples, for which he will pay
dearly in the future.
There were quite a few of his "ex-teachers" at
the Winter Count Rendezvous last week in Phoenix ... and they always get
a kick out of it when some naive person who has come from one of Brown's
workshops asks questions about him.
HOWEVER, THE BOOKS PUT OUT ***IN HIS NAME*** are quite
good. The ghost writer Tom Brown hired to write them is quite
knowledgeable and well respected FOR HIS KNOWLEDGE ... not his ethics
for doing the job, but "we all gotta eat" as the saying goes.
My friend says "Tom Brown is a guru; a Cultive
personality; the ultimate Con man, & if anyone has any ideas on how
to stop his "school" ... go for it!
If any of you would like HONEST "Old Ways"
training, contact the Society of Primitive Technology
SORRY I WASN'T ABLE TO GET "Official Word" sooner
... but I DID say I would keep checking ... ought to have a motto like
the RCMP: "we always get our Man"!
Any of the people who work for/thru the Primitive
Technology organization can verify what was reported to me.
Mii sago minick!
Lyn
... and please remember: when you think you "smell a
rat", you probably do; we need to pay attention to those messages
from "our higher self"; got with the gut feeling, and
"just say no!". Namaste.
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