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Tom Yossarian Joad

(19,229 posts) Thu Nov 25, 2021, 07:25 PM Nov 2021

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Were you ever one of these? [View all]

An Indian Guide?

You're probably telling your age if you were and might have a bit of a mix in your feelings about it now. They had pretty okay goals but all had a bit of a taint of 1950's cliched views of the realities of Native American history. I was only eight or nine and only have bits of memories of my experience as a member but with today's news stories and subjects the memory jiggled out of my head for the 1st time in many years.

Anyone else remember this group?

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Were you ever one of these? [View all] Tom Yossarian Joad Nov 2021 OP

No, but I was a "Campfire Girl" and they did a fair bit of cultural appropriation back then. TygrBright Nov 2021 #1

I remember being in a big stockade at summer camp. We had to march applegrove Nov 2021 #2

The YMCA ran them where I was from bottomofthehill Nov 2021 #3

They aren't burning a cross, are they? Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #4

Yep. Although we didn't wear the big head-dresses. Hoyt Nov 2021 #5

I have o words Deuxcents Nov 2021 #6

Never a member, but I remember hearing of them....nt Wounded Bear Nov 2021 #7

I was in the Order of the Arrow and we appropriated a lot of Indigenous SYFROYH Nov 2021 #8

Same here. That was Boy Scouts. nt Progressive Jones Nov 2021 #11

Yes but in a different way. GemDigger Nov 2021 #9

No but my high school mascot was the Chiefs meadowlander Nov 2021 #10

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