Other Ways to Get Involved

• Join the Teaching Drum Yahoo! group
  Our e-group is a place for discussions on native lifeway & spirituality, primitive living skills, balance, self-discovery, personal healing, attunement and other related topics. In a sense it serves as an electronic extension of the Teaching Drum Outdoor School.

• Join the Wild-hearted Ones Yahoo! group
  An online group specifically for Earth-oriented people seeking relationship. It is open to people of all sexual persuasions and relationship-type preferences.

• With Goodsearch.com, a websearch engine powered by Yahoo, we earn about 1 penny per internet search. The searches are reliable (from Yahoo) and you can check anytime to see how much Teaching Drum has raised. If we all use Goodsearch for our primary internet search engine, and encourage family and friends to do the same, we will be able to raise a significant amount for the school.
  
  Click the button to get started, or go to Goodsearch.com and enter 'Teaching Drum' under 'Who do you Goodsearch for?' and click Verify. After the first time you do this Teaching Drum will automatically come up as the charity you search for as long as you have not deleted the Goodsearch cookie.
  
  You can also download the Goodsearch toolbar so that you can use Goodsearch from the toolbar in the upper-right-hand-corner of your browser.
  
  Additionally, by going to Goodshop.com and clicking through before purchasing from major online retailers (like Amazon, Ebay, and many more) Teaching Drum will get a donation from the sale ranging from 1.5 - 37%.
  
  Thanks to all of you who choose to Goodsearch and Goodshop with us!

• Join us in supporting our Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa neighbors in protecting the Wolf River watershed by donating to the Wolf River Protection Fund.

• Join us in supporting the work of Survival International:
  
  "Survival is an international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide, and works for their rights in three complementary ways: education, advocacy and campaigns. Survival also offers tribal people themselves a platform to address the world, and works closely with local indigenous organizations. Survival's focus is on tribal peoples who have the most to lose, usually those most recently in contact with the industrial world.
  
  Survival's educational programs set out to demolish the myth that tribal peoples are relics, destined to perish through 'progress', while at the same time promoting respect for their cultures and explaining the contemporary relevance of their way of life.
  
  Survival runs worldwide campaigns to fight for tribal peoples. These campaigns are not only directed toward governments, but multinational corporations, banks, extremist missionaries, guerrilla armies, narrow minded conservationists or anyone else who violates tribal peoples' rights."

• Liberate your lawn! Are you tired of looking at monotonous lawn after lawn after lawn? Are you sick of having to mow and trim? Do you wish you could do your part to help the Earth Mother be as she once was? Both the National Wildlife Federation and Windstar Wildlife Institute have programs to help you transform your lawn into a mini natural area -- and have it be acceptable to your neighbors and the civil authorities! NWF's program is called Backyard Wildlife Habitat, and Certified Wildlife Habitat is Windstar's. Both offer technical assistance and, once your lawn qualifies, you receive signed certification and an attractive sign that will educate passersby and inform them of your certification.


• Track your own native ancestry through National Geographic's Genographic Project.