MAPS Meet 2002 Instructors

	Matt Cohen - Matt is a landscape gardener, naturalist, and teacher who is always looking to spice up a meal with wild flora, fungi, and fauna. He'll be leading wild edible plant walks and mushroom identification classes.
	Russell Cutts - Russell is the founder of Native Earth, Inc. and The Wyldecraft Company. He has 14 years of professional experience teaching earth skills, American Indian history/prehistory, and outdoor education. Russell will be teaching his passion, fire.
	Jack Davis - Jack learned a lot of primitive skills as a part of growing up on the prairies. He is a Korean Vet. and a retired engineer. Experimental archeology has been his passion for many years and he has done many talks, demonstrations, and classes at schools, museums, powwows, and other events, At the Meet, he will be teaching three different classes of moccasin making and one class of pattern development.
	Chuck "Doc" Garcia - Doc is a third generation curandero (Hispanic folk healer) having learned the art from childhood. He has taken several Tom Brown Jr. courses leaning towards philosophy and healing, as well as tracking courses from others. He writes, teaches, and lectures on California Hispanic herbalism at many universities on the west coast. He also runs the California School of Traditional Hispanic Herbalism.
	Jeff Gottlieb - Jeff has been a professional Interpretive Naturalist for over 20 years and has specialized in teaching primitive skills to kids and adults since 1987. He has built, alone or with others, over 17 wigwams and longhouses for nature centers and museums. Jeff has an MS in Biology from St. Bonaventure University.
	Keith Grenoble - Keith is an experienced primitive skills instructor living in southwest Virginia. He is an excellent potter and flint knapper and also does cordage, bone working, hide tanning, and basketry. He teaches through his program called Ancient Circles.
	R. L. Hueston - Hue, a military intelligence officer, is also an experienced survival instructor and at one time was the head field instructor at the Army's Military Intelligence Office Basic School in Arizona. He has been learning, practicing, and teaching primitive living skills since he was seven. Having taught many wilderness survival and nature awareness workshops throughout the country, he will be teaching scout skills, water skills, and medicine wheel philosophy at the Meet.
	Bill Kaczor - Bill is the primary coordinator for the Meet this year, working to transition it to Ancestral Knowledge. Bill Kaczor has completed 21 levels of courses at Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School and has also studied both mentoring and naturalist studies with Jon Young, Errett Callahan and Charles Worsham. Bill has worked as head instructor for Tom Brown Jr.'s Coyote Tracks summer program for children for four years. Bill created an after school and summer program for the 21st Century Learning Community in Public School District 150 in Peoria, Illinois. Bill is a specialist in bow making, stone tool technologies, fire by friction, basketry, and general rowdiness.
	Mac Maness - Mac is a professional primitive living skills instructor on the staff at Rivercane Rendezvous and Falling Leaves Rendezvous in Georgia, Rabbitstick in Idaho and Wintercount in Arizona. He is a member of The Society of Primitive Technology and on the Board of Trustees for the Indian Museum of the Carolinas. He teaches Primitive Living Skills classes at various events and festivals, and also creates museum reproductions.
	Chris Maness - Chris has been involved in teaching primitive living skills for over half his life. He is currently living between the Western N.C. mountains and Belize, broadening his skills portfolio by learning the indigenous skills of the Mayan culture. He brings a wealth of actual hands-on experiences in Central America which he enjoys sharing with his students. Although he specializes in brain tanning, he teaches and practices many other skills.
	Joe Murray - Joe is a long-time student of Tom Brown, Jon Young, and others. He teaches tracking, nature awareness, fire making, and many other skills.
	Mr. Guy R. Neal - Guy has been practicing primitive skills for over ten years and is known locally hereabouts as the "Kordage King", having an almost abnormal affinity for the stinging nettle plant. He specializes in cordage making, flint knapping, primitive fishing, and trapping.
	Wendy Nufer - Wendy is a biologist, naturalist, and educational consultant, presenting natural history and primitive technology programs for children and adults in NY and other eastern states. For the past 13 years, Wendy has taught science and primitive skills classes, and conducted ecological research with birds and mammals for the Smithsonian Institution and various other organizations throughout the country. She will be teaching sessions on shamanism, carving and coal burning wilderness spoons, herbal medicine, and will be offering a women's circle luncheon at the Meet this year.
	Jim Roaix - Jim is a descendant of the Mohawk and Abenaki tribes. Growing up in the North Woods of Maine, he learned primitive skills and crafts from Native elders. He teaches basket making, soapstone carving, pottery, all types of Indian-style beading, dreamcatchers, and moccasin-making (Iroquois and Algonquin). He also organizes powwows and he published an American Indian newspaper for ten years.
	Mark Seaver - Mark first learned primitive skills on his grandfather's farm where lamb's quarters and nettles were relished and jellies were made from wild plums and choke cherries. He studied tracking with Tom Brown and flint knapping with Jack Cresson. He leads tracking and nature awareness forays for the Audubon Naturalist Society and has lead hide tanning and basketry classes for MAPS. His specialty is being skeptical.
	Cindy Suter - Cindy (aka Bluefeather) is the MAPS Meet Registrar and all around indispensable helping hand. She has been involved with the MAPS Meet since the first gathering in 2002. You may have seen her at the registration table, in the circles, or beating the powwow drum. She is a good basket maker and also does wampum beading, but her area of expertise is working with gourds.