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BSA BOOKLET OFFERS
INSIGHTS INTO NATIVE
AMERICAN AWARENESS
When people of one culture meet
those of another, it helps if both know
what behavior is acceptable, which
words will smooth communication
and which should be avoided.
The BSA publication Cub Scout-
ing, Boy Scouting, and Exploring in
American Indian Communities (BSA
Bin No. 07-110) is designed to help
American Indian community leaders
and BSA council and district staff de-
velop Scouting programs in the
American Indian community.
It also offers unit activity ideas to
help leaders in the encouragement of
Scouts' awareness of tribal diversity.
And to better promote understanding
between Indians and non-Indians,
the book offers insights and sugges-
tions mainly for non-Indians. A sam-
pling:
• Don't use derogatory words and
phrases, such as "Injun," "honest
Injun," "Indian giver," "too many
chiefs and not enough Indians," "as
wild as a bunch of Indians," "squaw,"
"half-breed," or "papoose."
• Don't "play Indian," which can
be seen as mocking, offensive, and
dehumanizing native peoples.
• Don't lump all American Indians
together. They are separate native
groups with different names, cultures,
and languages.
• Avoid using any American Indian
content that could have a religious
connotation, including dances and
ceremonies.
• Be authentic when portraying
Indian culture; avoid mixing different
cultures, clothing, and homes into
one "Indian" stereotype.
• Use Native American consultants
to keep Scouting programs authentic
and avoid that which is offensive.
Sources include local tribal consul-
tants or knowledgeable individuals
from Indian study centers on college
campuses or at urban Indian centers.
For• information o?i SNAWS '98,
contact Britt Davis at the Heart of
America Council, 10210 Holmes
Road, Kansas City, MO 61*131-
1*200, (816) 91*2-9838.
WEBELOS SCOUTS ENJOY SPECIAL PROGRAM
By the end of their separate half-day program at the Sharing Native American
Ways Seminar, 300 Webelos Scouts were well equipped with ratties, headbands, and
choKers they'd made. (In the photograph above, Braa Leeson helps Jeffery Moorman,
left, and Andy Lemons with their projects.)
"This is an owner stick/' explained Joel Herndon, 10, as he decorated the shaft
and its crossbar. "You'd stick it by a deer you killed, so no one else could take it."
Joel and other Webelos Scouts from Pack 357, Kansas City, Mo., learned tribes made
such sticks to identify belongings, with each person or family using a distinctive design.
"Even now we have owner sticks of sorts," said Diana Aubuchon, staff member
and Cubmaster of Pack 202, Independence, Mo. "Car license plates, house numbers,
Social Security numbers."
Travis Mann, 10, Pack 23, Trenton, Mo., concentrated on his dance stick. "You
wrap yarn around and put four beads on it, and two bells and two feathers. It's to
take to the powwow." Last touch was an arrowhead he'd purchased at the seminar's
museum.
Karen Gardner, a Pack 23 leader, had accompanied Webelos to the seminar before.
"It makes them want to go on and do more in Scouting," she said. "It fires up that
desire to go into Mic-O-Say. And it keeps them interested in coming back, not only to
this event, but to other events and even weekly meetings."
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Celeste Rymer, unit commissioner for the Pioneer Trails District, shows Scouts
how American Indian artisans made jewelry such as this basic choker.
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