and standing to act as your Old Guide. Let him fill out the Application for Charter. When properly filled out and forwarded with $5 it is passed on by the Supreme Council of Guidance, and if all is satisfactory, the Charter is sent and with it is given free the following necessary outfit:
- 22 Badges - 1 Chief, 1 Old Guide, 1 Medicine Man, 19 members $2.20
- 2 Pads of Honor Claims .25
- 1 Book of Woodcraft 1.75
- 10 Coup Badges .50
- 10 Grand Coup Badges 1.00
- Postage .30
- $6.00
The Old Guide cannot be registered or receive his diploma until he is approved by two or more well-known citizens of his town, preferably school teachers, or others engaged in teaching the young.
Having got the fellows together at a meeting, select a name for the Tribe, also a Totem if a good one is suggested, though oftentimes these things are left to be determined later when an inspiration comes.
On one occasion, in 1903, I organized a Band on the shores of Greenwood Lake. It was summer time and we were waiting for something to suggest a name. Just then a bald eagle came flying across the lake, sailed low over our heads, and went back over the water. "That settles it," said the leader. "We are the Flying Eagles," and the Band continues yet under that name. Another Band agreed to take a long hike across country, and adopt as their name and Totem the first living thing they should see if they were sure of its name. It chanced that a blue heron was the first
