For the Native people of our country, survival wasn’t something extraordinary as it is being portrayed today. It was just something they did every day. In our modern times, due to the abundance of TV shows, magazines, and online information, survival has become a complicated way of life. The Native American survival lessons passed to me by a Cherokee elder in North Carolina will show you that survival shouldn’t be as complex as some would like you to believe.
To be a survivor, many recommend buying this or that because you won’t be able to make do without those items. Many of the folks out there will try to learn a thing or two about preparedness or survival. They will be overwhelmed by the amount of information available online. Most of these learning journeys will fail and people will just give up because everything seems too complicated, it costs too much or they don’t have the guts for it. Survival is not only about buying the best rifle or about having the best bushcraft knife. It’s about having the right concepts and use them in your favor.
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Called Protect & Survive Monthly or “PSM”, it aimed to teach people how to survive the almost unthinkable – nuclear war. In the 1980s, you could buy a creepy doomsday prepping magazine offering detailed advice about how to prepare for
I love the great outdoors but I hate feeling exposed. Wait, don’t those two statements contradict each other? Yes, they do if you don’t know how to build an emergency shelter. But if you can build one…then the answer is: