Everything a Native elder knows about staying alive. And staying safe.

The blackout. The hard winter. The stranger at the door. The walk home after dark. One hundred and twenty skills, rules and tricks that kept Native families alive for ten thousand years, written plain and in large print, so you can use them at 60, 70 and 80.

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The Native American Survival & Protection Manual
Portrait of the Native elder who wrote the manual
120 skills, rules and tricks for the blackout, the hard winter, the stranger at the door and the walk home at night
A Native Elder
Why this book exists

Nobody taught you what to do when the lights go out or when somebody picks you.

You were taught to call someone. The power company. The police. A son who lives three states away. And for most of your life that was enough. Then you get older, and you notice the help is slower, the winters are harder, the news is full of people your age followed home from the store, and the people who used to know what to do are gone.

Native families lived without a grid, a furnace, a store or a police station for ten thousand years. They slept warm at 40 below. They walked alone at night. They opened the door to strangers and lived to be old. Not because they were stronger than you. Because they knew a few hundred small things, and they taught them to their children before they could read.

Almost none of it was ever written down. This is the part that was.

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Bonus 1

The 72-Hour Blackout Sheet

One printed page. What to do in the first hour, the first night and the first three days when the power goes. Stick it on the refrigerator before you need it.

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Bonus 2

The Door Rules

A card for beside the front door. Seven rules for the knock at night, in large print, so nobody in the house has to think when it matters.

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Bonus 3

The Walking Card

Fits in a wallet. The five things to do the moment you think somebody is following you, in the order to do them.

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Who it is for

This manual is for you if

  • You live alone, or you and your spouse are the only two people in the house
  • The last power outage scared you more than you let on
  • You have changed your route home because of somebody in a parking lot
  • Your children live far away and help is a phone call that may not be answered
  • You want to know what to do, not read a history of it
And it is not for you if

Save your money if

  • You want a book about Native history or ceremony. This is a how-to.
  • You are looking for weapons advice. Nothing here depends on one.
  • You are young, strong and fast. It was written for the rest of us.
Inside the manual

Two parts, twelve chapters, 120 numbered entries

Each entry is short, plain and ends with exactly what to do. No history lessons, no filler, nothing you need to buy first.

Part One: Survival

For the day the modern world stops working

  1. FireStarting it with nothing, keeping it through the night, cooking and heating one room without burning the house down.
  2. WarmthHow Native families slept warm at 40 below. Layering, bedding, the one-room rule and what to do when the wood runs out.
  3. WaterFinding it, cleaning it, storing it, and the mistakes that put people in the hospital.
  4. FoodWhat keeps without a refrigerator, how much to put back, and what to eat first when the power dies.
  5. The blackoutThe first 72 hours, hour by hour. Light, heat, water, medicine, phone, neighbors.
  6. Hurt and sickCold injuries, cuts, burns and fevers when the clinic is two hours away and the road is gone.
Part Two: Protection

For the day somebody decides you are easy

  1. Not being chosenHow to walk, stand and look so an attacker picks somebody else. This chapter alone is worth the book.
  2. Reading a strangerThe signs Native elders watched for in the first three seconds, and the ones that mean leave now.
  3. The walk homeParking lots, sidewalks, bus stops and the man who follows you. What to do at every step.
  4. The doorThe knock at night, the fake delivery, the man who needs to use your phone. Rules for the house that work without a weapon.
  5. When it happensGrabbed, cornered or pushed. The handful of moves that work at 70 with no strength and nothing in your hands.
  6. Everyday objectsThe cane, the umbrella, the flashlight, the keys. What they can do and what the law lets you do with them.

120 entries. Large print. Numbered, so you can find the one you need in the dark.

The Native elder, in his cabin
The man who wrote it

Why I wrote it down

My grandmother could start a fire in a snowstorm with wet wood, keep nine children warm in one room through a winter that killed the sheep, and walk four miles home in the dark at seventy years old without once looking afraid. Nobody taught her from a book. The old ones taught her, and she taught me, and I am now the old one, and I have watched the people who know these things leave one by one.

I started writing them down for my own grandchildren. Then the winter storms came and I watched people my age die in their houses forty miles from a plowed road, and I watched the news fill up with old people followed home from the store, and I understood that my grandchildren were not the only ones who needed this.

So here it is. One hundred and twenty things, written the way I would tell them to you across a kitchen table, in print big enough to read without your glasses. Read it in the daylight. Then put it where you can reach it in the dark.

A Native ElderBorn and raised on the reservation
Questions

Before you buy

Is this a paper book?

No. It is a digital book, delivered to your email within minutes of paying. You can read it on your phone, tablet or computer, and print it at home or at any copy shop if you want it on paper.

I am not good with technology. Can I read it?

Yes. You get an email with a link. You tap the link and the book opens. That is the whole process. The print is large and the chapters are short. If you get stuck, reply to the email and a real person will help you.

I am over 70 and not strong. Is the protection part for me?

It was written for you. Nothing in it depends on strength, speed or fitness. Most of Part Two is about not being chosen in the first place, and the few physical moves it teaches were picked because they work at 75 with bad knees.

I am not Native American. Is it still for me?

Yes. The skills come from Native tradition, but cold is cold and a stranger at the door is a stranger at the door. Everything in the manual works in a city apartment or a farmhouse, for anybody.

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