White Pine Adult Programs: 5 Pathways
Our Pathways philosophy represents four major lifetime journeys. As opposed to a course, a Pathway is a commitment, a passion, an obsession.
White Pine Wilderness Academy offers multiple classes for each Pathway throughout the year. A student can focus on one Pathway or multiple Pathways depending on their time, interest and skill. Pathways are taught by experienced instructors, all with decades of experience.
The 5 Pathways
East Pathway: Herbalism & Foraging
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| Summer Foraging & Medicine Making | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
| Foraging & herbal medicine are ancient practices that help meet our basic organic needs. We have been gathering wild plants for food and medicine for longer than we have been Homo sapiens. Engage your primal instincts with this four-week primer to foraging and medicine making. Each week, we gather seasonally abundant wild plants to make Read More |
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| Fall Foraging & Medicine Making | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
| Foraging & herbal medicine are ancient practices that help meet our basic organic needs. We have been gathering wild plants for food and medicine for longer than we have been Homo sapiens. Engage your primal instincts with this four-week primer to foraging and medicine making. Each week, we gather seasonally abundant wild plants to make Read More |
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West Pathway: Sacred Hunt
Why The Sacred Hunt? To provide for yourself and community. To become an integral part of the wilderness.
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| Sacred Hunt: Start Hunting Package | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Sacred Hunt: Start Bowfishing | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Sacred Hunt: Traditional Bows and Still Hunting (Advanced) | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Sacred Hunt: Compound Bows and Elevated Positions (Advanced) | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Sacred Hunt: Crossbows and White-tailed Deer (Start Hunting) | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Sacred Hunt: Start Hunting Small Game | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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South Pathway: Survival Skills
Survival means different things to everyone, every species of animal and plant has different strategies. The principles we pass on were earned, often painfully, through adaptability, awareness, researched knowledge, physical training, and mental discipline.
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| Survival Skills: Walking with Fire | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Survival Skills: Full Series Package | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Survival Skills: Primitive Ceramics | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Survival Skills: Weapons and Traps | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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| Survival Skills: Shelter and Clothing | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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North Pathway: Inner Tracking
Why Inner Tracking? To confront the darkest parts of ourselves. To commit to the evolution of ancestry, community and place. To become a mindful leader.
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| North Pathway: Inner Tracking 9-Month Immersion | White Pine Wilderness Academy |
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Mentors’ Pathway: Shikari
The Shikari Pathway is a one-of-a-kind immersion into all of White Pine’s core skills, techniques, and philosophies. It is an expression of our honored lineage to the ancient Shikari Trackers of India, passed down to our founder Matt by his grandfather Ernie Shull.
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We Stay Free.
Pathways Philosophy
Pathways in Traditional Societies
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For traditional societies these Pathways were sacred guilds, filled with ceremony, sacrifice, and prohibition. This was not only essential for the preservation of information in an oral tradition, it also ensured the holistic integration of generations of hard earned knowledge.
Integration of Western and Traditional Cultures.
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At White Pine we are a part of a global Indigenous Skills/ Nature Connection Revolution. Our goal is to integrate the scientific, technological, ecological and cultural advancements of Western and Traditional cultures. We do this out of a sense of urgency that humans have to connect to the earth. Humbly, with the guidance of Elders we forge our own path. We are not Lakota, we are not European, we are not American. We are modern people with ancient DNA creating new Human Pathways.
Pathways in Practice
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To foster the flourishing of culture around each of the Pathways we encourage students to return. For those who have been on the Path for some time, we offer increasingly complex curriculum as well as volunteer and mentorship roles. At the center of the Pathway Philosophy sits the Elders, those who have walked down each of the directions to mastery and returned. Here in the center, the fire of ancient wisdom still burns.