Boy Scouts have been using Indigenous imagery on badges, uniforms, and campsites for a century. And despite a recent survey to members, 'there are no plans to eliminate Native American traditions,' a spokesperson says. grahambrewer reports:
Philip Deloria, a Harvard historian and author and member of the Dakota Nation, said the imagery and themes still used by the Boy Scouts build upon exaggerated and offensive depictions of Native life. They’re fantasies that lead to distorted perceptions of Indigenous people, said Deloria, who was nominated to the Order of the Arrow when he was in middle school.
“It’s assuming that members of the Scouts and the Order of the Arrow have perhaps come to some kind of new sort of cultural consciousness around these kinds of issues, which is probably a debatable proposition,” he said. “In instances where BSA’s standards for accuracy and respect have not been met, the organization takes action to educate our youth and adults, and where necessary modify our programming,” the organization said in its statement.
A spokesman declined to specify who exactly it consulted with or provide additional details, saying any changes would be unveiled later this year. On the night of his induction about 20 years ago, he said a white troop leader wearing a feather headdress led him and the other boys silently through the woods of what was then the Rota-Kiwan Scout Reservation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Around a bonfire, scout leaders chanted while wearing masks and animal pelts, Rice said. Then they told the boys to safeguard the secrecy of the ceremony and sent them off to spend a night silently in the woods.
Rice said he struggled to understand how and why using those songs could be viewed as harmful. Just like he had been taught in the Boy Scouts, Rice said, he had believed he was honoring the Ojibwe.
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