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About Tom Brown Jr. and Grandfather.
From the age of seven Tom Brown Jr. was apprenticed by a Native American, Lipan Apache elder, Medicine man and Scout named Stalking Wolf (Grandfather). He was eighty three when Tom met him in the 1950’s. For the next ten years Grandfather tutored Tom in the skills of wilderness survival, tracking, awareness and of Spirit.
Grandfather was born in the 1870’s, free from the reservations. After his family was massacred during the Indian wars, his grandfather, Coyote Thunder took the elders and children of the tribe deep into the wilderness, away from the white man, vowing to have nothing to do with their ways. They decided to live purely as their ancestors had for hundreds of years, and disregard the white man and his technologies.
Grandfather grew up in a prehistoric world under the guidance of Coyote Thunder. He became a great hunter and tracker and from an early age led hunting parties to provide for the tribe, gaining a reputation for his skill for hunting and healing. He was named Stalking Wolf after one of his elders watched him stalk and touch a wolf without it knowing.
When grandfather was 20 he had a vision that pulled him away from his tribe. For the next 63 years grandfather wandered the Americas learning from many native people and others who lived close to the earth and the old ways of survival and Spirit. Grandfather tested these skills in the pureness of the wilderness and after travelling for over sixty years Grandfather met the person to whom he would pass on these skills, a seven year old white boy named Tom.
After Grandfathers physical death, Tom wandered across the country for ten years as Grandfather had. When Tom returned, he developed a reputation as a great tracker, finding lost children, hunters and fugitives. In 1978, after the publication of his first book, The Tracker, he opened his school to pass on Grandfathers skills and philosophy.
Grandfather was born in the 1870’s, free from the reservations. After his family was massacred during the Indian wars, his grandfather, Coyote Thunder took the elders and children of the tribe deep into the wilderness, away from the white man, vowing to have nothing to do with their ways. They decided to live purely as their ancestors had for hundreds of years, and disregard the white man and his technologies.
Grandfather grew up in a prehistoric world under the guidance of Coyote Thunder. He became a great hunter and tracker and from an early age led hunting parties to provide for the tribe, gaining a reputation for his skill for hunting and healing. He was named Stalking Wolf after one of his elders watched him stalk and touch a wolf without it knowing.
When grandfather was 20 he had a vision that pulled him away from his tribe. For the next 63 years grandfather wandered the Americas learning from many native people and others who lived close to the earth and the old ways of survival and Spirit. Grandfather tested these skills in the pureness of the wilderness and after travelling for over sixty years Grandfather met the person to whom he would pass on these skills, a seven year old white boy named Tom.
After Grandfathers physical death, Tom wandered across the country for ten years as Grandfather had. When Tom returned, he developed a reputation as a great tracker, finding lost children, hunters and fugitives. In 1978, after the publication of his first book, The Tracker, he opened his school to pass on Grandfathers skills and philosophy.