When I wuz a kid the BSA were quite Indian centric, promoting the good parts of the cultures.
Chief Joseph and leaders like him were MEN.
Something most American politicians of the day would never understand.
When I wuz a kid the BSA were quite Indian centric, promoting the good parts of the cultures.
Yep, and I was also in the YMCA Indian Guides.
I was also in the BSA and found that to be true. Before that, I was in the Indian Guides, a program sponsored by the Young Men's Christian Associan for fathers and sons. Indian Guides taught young boys--and their fathers--to appreciate America's Indian heritage and even conducted toy drives to benefit needy Indian children. Nonetheless, the program was politically incorrect by the standards set by today's left-liberal establishment and was discontinued some years ago.
The Indian-centric theme was and is solely limited to Scouting in the United States. Ernest Thompson Seton, the first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America, merged his former youth organization, the Woodcraft Indians, into the BSA. Seton's interests in American Indian life and lore led to his writings and the incorporation of that focus into the BSA. The American Indian focus has been disappearing since at least the 1970s - unless you're a die-hard member of the Order of the Arrow and one of their American Indian dance teams.