P.G. YMCA Indian Guides and Princesses
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Indian
Guides - A Brief History
The National YMCA Indian Guide program officially started in 1926. The purpose of these programs is to foster the understanding and companionship between father and child. The Father and Son Y-Indian Guide Program was developed in a deliberate
way to support the father's vital family role as teacher, counselor and
friend to his son. The program was initiated by Harold S. Keltner, St.
Louis YMCA director, as an integral part of association work. In 1926 he
organized the first tribe in Richmond Heights, Mo., 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 to Canada, Harold
Keltner initiated a program of parent-child experiences that now involves
a quarter of a million children and adults annually in the YMCA.
In the Beginning...
Closing the gap...
American Indian Culture and
Life
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