AMM Requirements
To become a Bossloper, a man must have completed at least one full year as a
Probationary member. From the list of Hiveranno requirements, he must
complete at least 10 requirements. The selection of which 10 requirements to
do are the Pilgrim's choice, except that requirements 1 and 2 are mandatory,
and requirement 16 is not applicable for advancement to Bossloper.
To become a Hiveranno, all requirements listed below must be completed. This
is the "field test" referred to in the by-laws.
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Must have a full set of hand-cut and -sewn clothing and handmade
accoutrements. These must be researched for authenticity of the 1800-40
period and be of a type which would have been seen on men in, or moving
to, the Rocky Mountains. Period weapons, saddles, traps, blankets, and
other accoutrements that would normally have required the work of a
specialized craftsman need not be handmade, but must be as authentic as
can be purchased today.
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Must have spent at least two days and one night in a primitive camp
during each season of the year.
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Must have spent an accumulative time of two or more weeks in the
wilderness under primitive conditions in the company of no more than one
other member. Each stay must be at least three full days and two full
nights.
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Must have spent at least one full week in a primitive encampment in the
company of other members at the Territorial AMM Rendezvous (Eastern or
Western) or the National (Rocky Mountain) AMM Rendezvous.
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Must be able to demonstrate the skills needed for primitive survival in
the wilderness of his area and must be willing to teach said skills to
other members when requested by a Party Booshway or Director of this
Association.
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Must be able to demonstrate trapping ability using steel traps, snares,
and traps made from natural materials found in the area. As many states
do not allow the use of some, or any, of these traps, the actual taking
of game is not required, although it is suggested where possible and
legal.
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Must be able to demonstrate ability to track man or animal under natural
wilderness conditions.
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Must be able to demonstrate the ability to properly pack a horse, canoe,
bullboat, or a man for distance travel under possible adverse conditions.
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Must be able to properly field dress (clean and skin) a game animal under
primitive conditions.
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Must be able to start a fire in wet, as well as dry, weather using flint
and steel or fire drill using tinder and wood found under natural
conditions.
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Must be able to show ability to tan or Indian-dress hides.
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Must have spent at least five days traveling on foot, snowshoe, canoe,
and/or horseback. One method or a combination may be used. Bullboat may
be used in place of canoe. You are expected to gain as much distance as
possible. This trip must be under primitive conditions, taking nothing
that would not have been available to the mountain man between 1800-1840.
Period weapon with accoutrements and knife must be along.
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Must be able to cook a meal of meat using only the meat, fire, a knife,
and materials found in nature.
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Must be able to converse using Plains Indians hand talk. The 200 words on
page 64 of Tompkin's book "Indian Sign Language", will be used as a basis
for conversation. To complete this requirement, you must demonstrate your
ability to read the signs for 50 words, as well as to give the signs for
50 words.
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Must have hunted for and killed at least one game or fur animal with a
muzzleloading firearm or primitive bow and must have used the skin and/or
meat for food, clothing and/or accoutrements. The hunt must be made from
a strictly primitive camp, the hunt accomplished under primitive
conditions within the limits of local game laws.
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Must have at least three full years of membership in AMM.
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Must be able to properly skin an animal and prepare the skin for market.
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Must have served as a Booshway for at least two activities of the AMM.
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Must spend three days and two nights totally alone under primitive
conditions and aux aliments du pays ["off the nourishment of the land"].
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Must have made a study of the life style of the mountain man,
frontiersman or American Indian before 1840 and must submit a report of
this study to the association Capitaine.
Where applicable, multiple requirements may be completed concurrently.
Requirements completed for Bossloper need not be repeated. Requirement 16
shall be interpreted to mean three years as a Regular member.