I am blessed to have had the distinct honor to help create this well-organized, user-friendly ethnobotany field guide alongside U.S. Army Veteran and wilderness survival expert Richard Lonewolf:
Although we wrote it between 2010 and 2017 while living among the lower Sierra Nevada Mountain range, where the high deserts of the Mojave merge with the Sequoia National Forest, there are several plants and trees we see every day here in Iowa which make this book relevant. It teaches how to make acorn bread, buckeye nut flour, and educates on the 6 edible parts of cattail plants. It also teaches ancient cooking techniques, traditional medicines, and draws upon Lonewolf’s lifetime of hands-on experience.
“People often say, ‘That’s so wild!’ when something doesn’t make sense, but the wild makes perfect sense: oaks always grow on the hilltops, willow always grows near water, and the poison always grows next to the cure. The wilderness represents God’s Garden — it is where the Creator put the plants before humans rearranged them and put them all out of order! The Garden of Eden isn’t gone: the knowledge was just lost, but some native elders still know how to live with it.“
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Richard Lonewolf founded Survival Training Schools of California in 1982. It is now called Thomas Coyne Survival Schools, as Thomas is one of his former students. Although Lonewolf and I wrote More Valuable Than Gold between 2010 and 2017, he was a disabled Veteran who wasn’t receiving his due military benefits, and I was a homeless transgender woman (called a “two spirit” in Lonewolf’s culture) street performing with my guitar to survive. Both he and I have faced a ridiculous amount of adversity this lifetime, and now he is down to 110 lbs and has cancer. With your help, we can raise enough money to get our book printed at Heuss Printing in Ames, Iowa. Please help me fill his family’s heart and put big smiles on their faces by pre-ordering your copy today. As soon as we get enough money to get the books printed ($34,000), we’ll send you your copy. Due to the number of color photos throughout the book, we need to print a large quantity of them in order to drive the price down enough to make them affordable: $30 for soft covers, $40 for hard covers.
As 527 tax-exempt political organizations, both Wild Willpower PAC and Sondra Wilson for Iowa Governor may accept campaign contributions, as this is one of our campaign materials due to the political nature of this publication. Please be aware that although ordering the book through Wild Willpower PAC does help support my campaign for Iowa Governor, the platform I am running on will help all Iowans and we get to simultaneously help a disabled Veteran and Native American elder who worked his tirelessly to relearn this knowledge and bring it back to the people.
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PayPal = WildWillpowerPAC@gmail.com with “MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD” written in the subject line.
“If corporations can toss millions of dollars over the tops of our heads to get politicians elected, and that is a form of speech protected under Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1 (1976) and Citizens United v. FEC | 558 U.S. 310 (2010), then We the People can make campaign contributions in a manner that helps each other and helps Veterans. This is the First Amendment!”
– Sondra Wilson
Photo by Jasmin Legan @ Whiskey Creek, California.
Endorsement Letter from Richard Lonewolf for Sondra Wilson
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