ILLINOIS NATION
         Y-Adventure Guides           
          2007-2008             

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:

Sep 5,  2007 Wednesday	Recruitment Night 6:30-8 P.M. at the YMCA	All Nation /TribalChiefs
Sep 29, 2007 Saterday	Richardson’s Corn Maze 4:00-8:00 PM Spring Grove, IL  $12	Federation
Oct 6 - 7 2007 Saturday-Sunday	Fall Campout-  White Eagle  (Flyer) (White Eagle Brochure)	Cherokee Forest
Oct 31, 2007	ALL NATION REGISTRATION DUE	Nation Chief
Oct 1-31 2007	Fund Raiser: Eat at Photo's and mention Illinois Nation	All Nation
Oct 12-31,  2007	Palatine Jaycee's Haunted House  On your own or as a Tribe	All Nation
Nov 17  2007 Saturday	Coco Key Water Park  (Flyer)  Oct Signup & Get Tickets from your Chief	Cherokee
Dec 2, 2007 Sunday	Federation YMCA Gym Swim     6 to 9 PM    Charity Donation	Illinois Nation
Jan 12/19 2008 Canceled Feb 16 2008 7-9 Feb 23 2008 5-7	Villa Olivia Tubing Event  (Flyer) See your Chief for which date to go to.	Black Bear
Feb, 9 - 10  2008 Saturday-Sunday	Winter Campout- Henry Horner Money due at Jan. Longhouse  (Flyer)	Menominee
Mar 9 ,2008 Sunday	Pinewood Derby    ( Flyer  Rules ) 12:00 – 4:00 PM  at YMCA	Black Bear
Apr 11 - 12 , 2008 Friday-Saturday	Adler Planetarium Sleepover   (Flyer  Permission) Fri 6pm  (Dinner on your own)	Moose
May 3-4 2008       6:30pm-6:30am	Buehler YMCA Overnight Lockin	Raptor
Jun 13,14,15, 2008	Warren Dunes Spring Tent-Out  (Flyer)	Snake
Nation Longhouse:     Where/When: Second Thursday of each month at  Durty Nellies Pub    Meeting Minutes    Roles and Responsabilities    Buffalo Chip Story    Aims Walk     Order of Eagles    OofENoInd Federation longhouse meetings:

 TRIBE PAGES: 

• PURPOSE: 
  The purpose of the Father and Son Adventure Guide Program is to foster the understanding and companionship of Father and Son.
•  MOTTO:  "Friends Forever!"
•  AIMS: 
  • 1. To be clean in body and pure in heart  
  • 2. To be "Friends Forever" with my father/son  
  • 3. To love the sacred circle of my family 
  • 4. To be attentive while others speak 
  • 5. To love my neighbor as myself
  • 6. To respect the traditions and beliefs of all people
  • 7. To seek and preserve the beauty of the Great Spirit's work in forest, field and stream
•  PLEDGE:
  "We, Father and son, through friendly service to each other, to our family, to this tribe, to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of the Great Spirit."
•   SONGS:  Friends Forever (sung to the tune of Clementine)
  Friends forever, friends forever, thats our slogan, thats our song.
  Boys are stronger, Dads feel younger when they take the boys along.
  Mother's for it, Dads adore it, and the boys think its fine. 
  Friends forever, friends forever, as Adventure Guides we'll have good times.
  Though the days and through the years, we will wander side by side. 
  Friends forever, friends forever, the great Spirit is our guide.

America:

Oh beautiful beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain...

For purple mountains majesty, above the fruited plain.

America,America, God shed His grace on thee.
And crown thy good with brotherhood...

From sea to shining sea!

• Bear Claws:  (Cheet Sheet)

Yellow:Memorize and recite your tribe's Big and Little Adventure Guides names and real names (up to 8 pairs)
Orange: Memorize and recite the Adventure Guides ritual (Slogan, Aims, Purpose & Pledge)
White: Father and Son make a peice of tribal property.
Kelly Green: Attend a nation campout in spring, winter, or fall.
Tan: Get a new Adventure Guide and Father to join the Illinois Nation.
Black: Learn the songs "America" and "Friends Forever" by heart.
Blue : Attend an individual tribal overnight. Take a nature walk and tell the tribe what you saw on the walk. A Friday Night overnight, on a 2-night nation campout, qualifies.
Red: Attend another tribes meeting. Report back to your tribe how it was different.
Purple : Starter  (get this one when joining).

• Advanced Awards - Arrowheads - Nation Testing:
  First, earn your bear claws above. Then, earn these additional arrowheads by demonstrating:
  1) In your tribal meeting, and then;
  2) In front of the Order of Eagle Cheif and Nation Cheif on a campout.
  
  • Community Service (Red): Organize and/or participate in one or more community service or ecological events. Be prepared to report on the event.
  • Nature Report (Dark Brown): Collect and be able to identify 10 different things from nature (leaves, trees, birds, mammals, fish, insects, plants, constellations, rocks,...) each by heart.
  • Outdoor Skills: Complete an advanced outdoor skill with minimal adult assistance. Some examples are: Cook a meal over a campfire, Catch a fish, Start a fire with a single match using only materials found in nature, learn rope knots, test the quality of water in a pond,...
  • Master the ability to navigate using a map, compass, sun, moon, planets, constellations and/or other natural landmarks.
  • Complete a second project described under the Nature Report (Dark Brown) category.
      

ORIGIN OF Y.M.C.A. ADVENTURE GUIDES:
The Father and Son Y-Indian guide Program was developed in a deliberated way to support the father's vital family role as teacher, counselor, and friend to his son. Harold S. Keltner, St. Louis YMCA Director, as an integral part of Association work, initiated the program. In 1926 he organized the first tribe in Richmond Heights, Missouri, with the help of his good friend, Joe Friday, an Ojibway Indian, and William H. Hefelfinger, Chief of the first Y-Indian Guide tribe. Inspired by his experiences with Joe Friday, who was his guide on fishing and hunting trips into Canada, Harold Keltner initiated a program of parent-child experiences that now involves a half million children and adults annually in the YMCA.

While Keltner was on a hunting trip in Canada, one evening, Joe Friday, the Indian, said to his white colleague as they sat around a blazing campfire: "The Indian father raises his son. He teaches his son to hunt, to track, to fish, to walk softly and silently in the forest, to know the meaning and purpose of life and all he must know, while the white man allows the mother to raise his son." These comments struck home, and Harold Keltner arranged for Joe Friday to work with him at the St. Louis YMCA.

The Ojibway Indian spoke before groups of YMCA boys and dads in St. Louis, and Mr. Keltner discovered that fathers, as well as boys, had a keen interest in the traditions and ways of American Indian. At the same time, being greatly influenced by the work of Ernest Thompson Seton, a great lover of the out-of-doors, Harold Keltner conceived the idea of a father and son program based upon the strong qualities of American Indian culture and life-dignity, patience, endurance, spirituality, felling for the earth, and concern for the family. Thus, the Y-Indian Guide program was born a half century ago.