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Native American Resources

This is a collection of Native American Resources for outdoor enthusiasts involved in the study of Indian lore.

By Julia M. Seton:

The Rhythm of the Redman
In Song, Dance, and Decoration

Dances

Songs

Native Skills

Indian Ceremonies

CHILD TO THE UNIVERSE

BRINGING IN THE FIRE

PEACE PIPE CEREMONY

SUNRISE CEREMONY

THANKS TO MOTHER EARTH

THUNDER CEREMONY

SONG OF THE PLEIADES

NAMING CEREMONY (Vigil)

MANHOOD 

 

By Robert De Groat

How to Make Totem Poles

by William Tomkins:

American Indian Sign Language Online Dictionary

Boy Scout Ceremonies in Sign Language:

Boy Scout Troop Meeting

Scout Oath in Sign

Ceremonial Initiation

Opening Council Fire

Indian Boy Scout Blessing

Song "Taps" in Sign

Silent Campouts (Ordeal)

Traditional Boy Scout Signing Requirements

Sioux & Ojibway Pictography

Seton's Picture Writing

by Ernest Thompson Seton:

The Birch Bark Roll
of the Woodcraft League

How to Make a Tepee

Songs from the Birch Bark Roll

Dances & Plays from the Birch Bark Roll

Early Ordeal Ceremonies

Early Sashes

Picture Writing

The Book of Woodcraft

The Indian Way

The Indian Creed

Reverence (Some Native Prayers, Rituals, & Ceremonies)

by Dan Beard:

Indian Shelters

How to Make a Bark Teepee

Indian Communal Houses

Indian Games Adapted for Boys

Order of the Arrow:

The Order of the Arrow was first established in the summer of 1915 at Treasure Island Boy Scout Camp, near Philadelphia, PA.  "Shortly after it was announced that Carroll Edson was to assist in the direction of Treasure Island, he went home for a weekend visit.  With his father, he attended a meeting of the Congregational Club where Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America, spoke.  Seton had organized the Woodcraft Indians, a forerunner of the Boy Scout movement in the United States, and in his talk he mentioned the success he had with boys at camps using Indian ceremonies.  This incident undoubtedly had a definite bearing on the Indian background of the Order of the Arrow."

Dr. Kenneth P. Davis, 
The Brotherhood of Cheerful Service:
A History of the Order of the Arrow, 
1996, BSA

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