About Us…

That’ Me With a Kestrel

My Name is Julian Drummond & This is My Story:

About 15 Years Ago I stumbled upon an article about a school in the USA where they taught Native Survival & Awareness Skills…

The Lessons learned blew my mind, and started me on the most glorious adventure, which has been going on since that first night in an old dilapidated barn in 1992…

I have taught these same skills to friends and really anyone who had the patience to study with me, but mostly I have perfected what I could in my own time, on my own schedule…

The Reason I Have Decided to start Teaching  Now:

I look around and I read the books that are coming out and most of these seem to be missing much of the information needed to perfect these survival skills, and in many cases the reason’s to learn them in the first place…

There is so much more to Native Skills than shelter, bow drill etc…

Did you know some tribes developed the ability to tell from the track of an animal not only what animal it was, but whether it was walking, galloping or stalking…

They could look at a track and tell you which where the animal was looking, and whether or not its head was up, down or turned to one side..

Some could look at a track and tell you if its bladder was full or empty, and even to notice the tiny tremors of fear as a minuscule ripple in the edge of the track, how is that for awareness…

That’s what I believe is missing, the awareness that brings time in the woods to a different place, and to get someone to a place where they experience the woods as our ancestors did with their acute levels of awareness, instead of just knowing the skills they used…

The Birds as a forest alarm system…

Another level of missing knowledge is that of the animal alarm system that exists, an alarm system that allow the fox, deer, weasel, in fact any of the forest animals can know where you are in the foreset based on what the birds are saying about you…

Walk In Awareness