8o The Book of Woodcraft 



Page & Co., Garden City, L. I., N. Y., and read or tell them 

 the first few pages, the Laws of the Lodges, and the Life of 

 Tecumseh. Talk it over and see if all are fully inspired 

 with the idea. If they take to it, get some suitable man to 

 act as your Old Guide, which means he is a man of good 

 character and able and willing to give the time. He must 

 begin by breaking you in as Indian Boys. 



For this you qualify as follows: 



Know the Indian laws, signs, and salute. 



Have slept out three nights without a roof overhead. 



Be proposed, recorded, posted for one Moon, if not in 

 camp, or for Seven Suns when in camp, and then voted into 

 the Band by that band (one blackball to exclude). Unless 

 this is the foundation of a new band in which case it is 

 enough if all are willing to accept the candidate as a founder 

 without waiting. 



Each then takes the pledge as given on pages 65-6, 

 is enrolled as an Indian Boy, and is invested with the green 

 badge. 



WTiile the fellows are preparing, it is well to think on 

 what name the band is to bear. Turn to the pages given 

 Totems and Calls for suggestions. You should use some 

 animal or object that is easy to draw and not already used 

 by a band in your region, preferably one or something, that 

 belongs to your country. Do not hesitate to make Httle 

 changes in the color, etc., of the design if you can make it 

 more acceptable. 



Thus you may wish to use the Wolf Totem because some 

 of your fellows are good at howKng, or the Hoot Owi be- 

 cause your leader has had some good lessons in hooting; but 

 you cannot take them as they stand because there is already 

 a Wolf and Hoot Owi Band in your region. All you need to 

 do is to change the color, and make it the Black WoK, Red 

 Hoot Owl, etc., as you please. 



