Fox Walkers is an ongoing program designed for students who are home-schooled or who attend public or charter schools. As a Fox Walker, your child will gain hands-on instruction in the ancient arts of wilderness survival, animal tracking, and nature awareness.
Led by founder Rick Berry and the 4EEE Instructor crew, Fox Walkers exposes children to the stories and teachings of Stalking Wolf, a Lipan Apache who wandered the western hemisphere for 60 years and handed down his teachings to the well-known author and teacher Tom Brown, Jr. Our Program is grateful to the Tracker School for passing down the Skills of Wilderness Survival and coyote teaching methods using the art of questioning, and tapping into the ways of our ancestors.
At Fox Walkers, we weave the philosophy of Earth-living into all the skills we teach. We also incorporate the traditional wisdom indigenous life-ways shared by Don Ryberg of the Siakumne Tribe, working to restore the land through Traditional Ecological Knowlege. Through Rick Berry's time lvinig with Gary Morris, more Indigenous California ways are shared and woven through the program, Joining us in 2016, Tony Cervantes and Sara Raskie share their rich Indigenous wisdom while with the youth at Fox Walkers. Currently with our racial justice statement, we are moving forward with more Indigenous leadership; Tony Cervantes is now our Board President and he is working to involve more Native CA Tribes as well as secure land that we steward in a way that reflects looking back 50 thousand years as to how we care for the land.
Our Fox Walkers curriculum subtly engages students in a spontaneous flow of interactive learning opportunities that: Strengthen powers of concentration, observation, and endurance; Provide access to deep reservoirs of self-confidence and self-knowing; Cultivate intimate, respect-full relationships between students, the Earth, and all who dwell upon her; and Empower, inspire, and prepare students to become active, responsible caretakers of the Earth.
As a result, Fox Walkers experience a different type of education. Encouraged to sit and read nature like an open book, they are rewarded by the magic of the natural world. At Pata Panaka Village, they learn how to care-take a home – where the bedroom is the bark hut and the living room is outside. They refer to going up and down the hill as “upstairs” and “downstairs”. They begin to have a deep understanding that the Earth is our home, that our home is much bigger than they once thought, and that care-taking this home is a great honor and responsibility.
The staff and Instructors have a very high moral and ethical code, one that mimics nature, as we are only guides to point them to nature's teachings. We are constantly "role-modeling" respect with the natural world and with each other. A huge part of Fox Walkers is that we inspire youth to give back to not only the land but as well their community.
Led by founder Rick Berry and the 4EEE Instructor crew, Fox Walkers exposes children to the stories and teachings of Stalking Wolf, a Lipan Apache who wandered the western hemisphere for 60 years and handed down his teachings to the well-known author and teacher Tom Brown, Jr. Our Program is grateful to the Tracker School for passing down the Skills of Wilderness Survival and coyote teaching methods using the art of questioning, and tapping into the ways of our ancestors.
At Fox Walkers, we weave the philosophy of Earth-living into all the skills we teach. We also incorporate the traditional wisdom indigenous life-ways shared by Don Ryberg of the Siakumne Tribe, working to restore the land through Traditional Ecological Knowlege. Through Rick Berry's time lvinig with Gary Morris, more Indigenous California ways are shared and woven through the program, Joining us in 2016, Tony Cervantes and Sara Raskie share their rich Indigenous wisdom while with the youth at Fox Walkers. Currently with our racial justice statement, we are moving forward with more Indigenous leadership; Tony Cervantes is now our Board President and he is working to involve more Native CA Tribes as well as secure land that we steward in a way that reflects looking back 50 thousand years as to how we care for the land.
Our Fox Walkers curriculum subtly engages students in a spontaneous flow of interactive learning opportunities that: Strengthen powers of concentration, observation, and endurance; Provide access to deep reservoirs of self-confidence and self-knowing; Cultivate intimate, respect-full relationships between students, the Earth, and all who dwell upon her; and Empower, inspire, and prepare students to become active, responsible caretakers of the Earth.
As a result, Fox Walkers experience a different type of education. Encouraged to sit and read nature like an open book, they are rewarded by the magic of the natural world. At Pata Panaka Village, they learn how to care-take a home – where the bedroom is the bark hut and the living room is outside. They refer to going up and down the hill as “upstairs” and “downstairs”. They begin to have a deep understanding that the Earth is our home, that our home is much bigger than they once thought, and that care-taking this home is a great honor and responsibility.
The staff and Instructors have a very high moral and ethical code, one that mimics nature, as we are only guides to point them to nature's teachings. We are constantly "role-modeling" respect with the natural world and with each other. A huge part of Fox Walkers is that we inspire youth to give back to not only the land but as well their community.