Almost Feral
Unlike most boys today who are focused on their cell phones, when I was young, I would spend most of my time roaming around in the bayous...
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Bruce Moreton
- Oct 30, 2022
- 3 min
Water, Water, Everywhere!
For forty-five weeks every year, the moose, otters, blue herons, beavers and their wilderness playmates have Night Eagle to themselves...
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Bruce Moreton
- Oct 26, 2022
- 3 min
A Camper's First Summer at Night Eagle
This is a paper written by a former Night Eagle camper for his high school English class. He signed up for a three-week session his first...
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Bruce Moreton
- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
Indian Trail Trees
The following article by Laura Moss from the Mother Nature Network was sent to us by Fisher Cares. He thinks we may have a “trail tree”...
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Bruce Moreton
- Oct 2, 2022
- 4 min
Tatonka (The Lakota word for Buffalo)
"The buffalo is a symbol of self-sacrifice; it gives until there is nothing left. This was imitated by the people in their lives. To be...
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Bruce Moreton
- Sep 30, 2022
- 3 min
Blue Heron Shares Night Eagle
(Blue Heron [below right] spent five summers at Night Eagle as a camper and more as a counselor. He still attends Work and Play Weekends...
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Bruce Moreton
- Sep 27, 2022
- 3 min
“The Story of the Rainbow”
(Each day in the summer during Morning Reflection at Night Eagle, someone tells or reads an American Indian story or myth that has been...
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Bruce Moreton
- Sep 24, 2022
- 3 min
Just a Boy in the Woods
For as long as I can remember, the woods have beckoned to me. As a boy, armed with my trusty Daisy bb gun and my two bladed Boy Scout...
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Bruce Moreton
- Nov 26, 2021
- 3 min
The Give Away Ceremony - A Lakota Tradition
One of the most important ceremonies in American Indian teachings (and one that we hold frequently at Night Eagle) is the Give-Away...
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Bruce Moreton
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
12 Ways to Keep Night Eagle With You at Home
There is no doubt that Night Eagle is a "magical" place, and you know that some of that pixie dust has fallen on you and that Night Eagle...
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Bruce Moreton
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Night Eagle Alum Published!
Justin Wexler (Earth Song), a former Night Eagle camper, our first AC, and later a counselor in the early years of camp has published a...
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Bruce Moreton
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Camps Must Reintroduce Boys to Nature
Thoreau wrote, “In wildness is the preservation of the world. We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the...
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