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  • About:
    • Two Organizations in One:
      • Wild Willpower PAC – America’s first “Civil PAC”
        • Sondra Wilson, Founder and Executive Director
      • The Peaceable Assembly
    • Our Code of Ethics
    • Endorsement Letters:
      • Co-Founder & Former President of the California Lichen Society, Bill Hill
      • Richard Lonewolf, Ethnobotany and Wilderness Survival Expert
    • Special Thanks:
      • Kevin Ray Byrd
      • Jason Baker, Tech Support
      • Environmental Studies Professor Frank Schiavo, M.M.L. (1939-2010)
      • Bill Hill & The California Lichen Society
      • Ashawna Hailey (1949-2011)
      • Samaritans of the USA
      • To All the Tech Nerds
  • Our National Plan:
    • Right to Homestead Act:
      • “Who Owns Ames, Iowa?” – upcoming documentary
    • Civilian Restoration Corps:
      • Ecological Restoration:
        • Native Animal Cooperatives
        • Oceti Sakowin Heritage Trail
        • Wildharvesting Cooperatives
          • Kern River Wildharvesting Cooperative
            • Bulk Native Foods and Herbs, and Backpacking Mixes
            • Our Commitments:
              • Coordinate Respectfully with Forest Officials
              • Uphold The Zero Trash Commitment
              • Use Positive-Impact Harvesting Techniques
              • Wildfire Prevention
        • Paid for by gradually transferring livestock subsidies
          • The Devastating Ecological Impacts of Non-Native Animal Industries
          • Animal Abuse & Subjugation in the Current U.S. Economy
      • Sustainable Cities
      • ** History & Purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps
    • Justice Accessibility Act:
      • Teach Jurisprudence in High Schools
      • Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Color of Law Crimes
      • Government Officials Must Provide Email Addresses
      • Additional Justice Reform Solutions
    • Weaning off fossil fuels
    • Education Reform:
      • Offer Local Native Language Courses in All U.S. School Systems
      • Sponsor Native Teachers to Train Wildharvesting Cooperatives
      • Teach Accurate, Non-Bias History in Schools
      • Teach Sustainable Gardening and Applied Ethnobiology in Schools
      • Sponsor Native Teachers to Teach via The Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
    • Swords to Plowshares Act (international policy)
  • Current Projects:
    • Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
      • Donate a Book – Help Build The Wild Living Skills Database & Smartphone App
    • “Civil Rights Self-Defense” legal self-help website
      • Stop Courtroom Abuse!
    • Resources to Help You Live Sustainably:
      • Ecological Restoration:
        • Native Animals, & Organizations Involved in Their Restoration:
          • Plains Bison & Wood Bison Restoration – Get Involved
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      • Homesteading Starter Kits:
        • “Cold Frame Plants”: Broccoli, Cabbage, & Cauliflower
        • “Full Sunlight, Low Water”: Eggplants, Okra, Sunflowers
        • “Ideal For Raised Beds”: Asparagus, Carrots
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        • “The 3 Sisters”: Corn, Beans, & Squash
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        • How To Propagate Fruit & Nut Trees From Cuttings
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        • Cob Housing- mixing mud to work like clay for walls, etc
        • Join ‘The Zero Trash Commitment’
        • Build Your Own Low-Cost Swimming Pool
  • Cases in Progress:
    • California Cases:
      • Robbed by Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies
        • California Man faces Fabricated Charges used to Further County Fraud
        • If an Officer violated your rights – who would you report the incident to?
        • Involved Parties
          • Record Owners – John and Cheryl Ross
          • Kern Cty. Sheriff’s Deputies – trespassing, forcible entry and detainer, constructive fraud
          • Neighbors who Robbed Us following the Ouster
        • Our Redress of Grievances
      • Homeless woman charged >$600 for sleeping outdoors (Marin County, CA)
    • Iowa – Ames Resident Seeks to Improve Iowa’s Justice System:
      • Transgender Iowan, arrested for going in the women’s restroom in 2006, still seeks justice (2022)
      • Following an unjust court ruling, officer warns Ames resident to “leave the state” for her safety (2009)
      • City of Ames obstructs Citizens from Petitioning (2018)
      • Transgender Woman Claims Nonprofit “Reliable Street” Retaliated Against Her for Filing a Civil Rights Complaint:
        • Legal assistance extremely difficult to find in Iowa
    • Standing Rock Class Action
  • Publications:
    • “More Valuable Than Gold” Ethnobotany textbook
    • “The Hidden History of Law” textbook series
    • “How to Legally Claim Abandoned Real Estate”
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Richard Lonewolf, Ethnobotany and Wilderness Survival Expert

by Sondra Wilson. Updated 11/25/2022.

   It is a great honor, that on July 26th, 2013, ethnobotany and wilderness survival expert Richard Lonewolf, signed this letter of endorsement for the organization I was then developing, Wild Willpower.

    After designing for him business cards, fliers, posters,  his own website at www.RichardLonewolf.com, he and I developed three projects to showcase his work and help pass on this extremely important knowledge to the world:

  • made copies and completely remastered the last “surviving” copy of the wilderness survival manual written in the 1980s by Lonewolf and Julie [seeking last name].  Cleaned it up, enlarged the pictures, added pages of color photos, and designed a cover for the book.

 

Click to enlarge, or scroll down below the letter to read the full text:

Picture of Endorsement from Lonewolf

 “To whom it may concern:

    My name is Richard “Lonewolf” Legan.  For over 40 years I’ve been teaching ethnobotany & wilderness survival.  Some of my past students include U.S. infantry, military police, Army, California Search & Rescue, California State Universities, Bakersfield & Kern County Schools, Pomona State University, Boy & Girl Scouts of America, & many others.  Skills include food, utility, & medicinal uses of plants, traditional & emergency shelter construction, fire making & cooking techniques (rock boiling, steam pits, blast ovens, Yukon stoves, keyhole lays, & many others), water location, recovery, & purification, traditional hunting tools, traps & snares, & many other daily life skills.

 

   I first met Alexandra “Distance Everheart” Wilson in the spring of 2003, & for 6 months I began teaching her survival skills in the high Sierra deserts of Southern California.  She participated in many traditional sweat lodge ceremonies, began to learn about traditional Native American customs & values, traditional plant uses, & showed an eager & quick understanding of things.  

 

   We would not meet again until spring 2010.  Since that time, she has studied with me regularly in various regions throughout Kern County, California wildlands.  She has greatly assisted me in reaching out to others around the world, including developing my business website (www.RichardLonewolf.com), filming, designing, & producing my first DVD that is now available entitled “The Forgotten Abundance of America’s Wildlands w/ Richard Lonewolf”, re-printing my survival manual from 1987 & adding many improvements to the original design including her photos, & has also helped me in preparation for many classes, & also has helped teach native plant uses at more than one traditional Pow Wow.  She has learned about many of my peoples’ customs, & has worked very diligently to help my people regain our traditional ways, & has even been invited to dance in more than one of the Pow Wows– which is considered a rare & great honour among our people.

 

   While studying these skills, Distance conceived of a way to make these skills readily available to people around the world in such a way that I believe will help preserve this ancient & otherwise scattered or disappearing knowledge.  She has (begun) sorted the skills that I have taught her into a very accessible way on www.WildLivingSkills.org, & has designed a non-profit organization (www.WildWillpower.org) that will help traditional medicine people & wilderness survival experts get paid for this knowledge so that it is not taken from our people, but instead that we may be able to help our families & teach more people, & also make these skills available at no cost to anyone.  As many people are aware, there are many reservations & native communities where poverty & lack of education, alongside a loss of knowledge of traditional ways are all too common– so keeping this knowledge available in an economically-inclusive way while compensating hard working teachers is something that is very dear to my heart, as I believe this knowledge is knowledge that does not belong to any one individual, but rather should be made available to everyone– as it is knowledge meant for us to have by The Creator.

 

   To any person or organization who might read this letter, I ask you to please view the websites, & help our progress in any way that you can.   At the time this letter is being written, Wild Willpower needs to obtain a 501c3 status, & immediate financial assistance is also needed.  I am a disabled Vietnam & Cold War era veteran who has not been receiving my due benefits, & a series of circumstances have left us without the finances necessary to continue our work.  On behalf of many people among my nation who are hoping that we are able to secure necessary funding in order to bring this knowledge forth, I ask with sincerity that you please consider assisting in any way possible.

            

      Sincerely,

 

 

                      Reverend Richard “Lonewolf” Legan

                  Proud to Serve in the U.S. Armed Forces

                  & Proud Member of the Cherokee Nation“

       

   

 

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