BIG LODGE – MINISINO OR TRIED WARRIOR
To become a Minisino, the Young Brave must take at least 20 of the following tests, the first 13 being obligatory:
1. Walk seven miles in two hours and write an account of it.
2. Swim one hundred yards in three minutes.
3. Single paddle a canoe one mile in twenty minutes.
4. Know how to splice a rope, and lash a rope end.
5. Make a rubbing-stick fire with tools made by himself.
6. Make a stick bed; or else a serviceable bow and arrow.
7. Set up a teepee, or a two-man tent, single handed.
8. Be able to make a comfortable, rainproof shelter, and a dry, comfortable bed, also light a fire and cook a meal, with no tools or utensils but a hatchet and what he can make with it.
9. Know twenty-five native wild birds.
10. Know ten native wild quadrupeds.
11. Know thirty forest trees or shrubs, show appropriate camp articles made from five kinds of the same.
12. Know twenty wild flowers.
13. Know and show use of five medicinal herbs.
14. Plant successfully ten desirable trees and ten wild flowers or plants.
15. Organize a clean-up covering at least one block in town.
16. He must have successfully run a camp of not less than seven fellows for at least a week, or if not in camp must have led a band for a month.
17. Show by examination and practice a good acquaintance with all the essentials of modern etiquette: Form of Address, Salutation, Introduction, Calling, etc.
18. Be sunburnt from head to feet. (If for any reason this is not possible at the time, the degree may be conferred, ..text pokračuje
