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| Founded | 1901 | ||
| Founder | Ernest Thompson Seton | ||
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Woodcraft League of America, originally called the Woodcraft Indians and League of Woodcraft Indians, is a youth program, established by Ernest Thompson Seton in 1901.[1] Despite the name, the program was created for non-Indian children. At first the group was for boys only, but later it would also include girls. Seton instructed the children in his town in Connecticut in outdoor "Woodcraft" – knowledge and skills of life in the woods – and based much of the group's terminology and structure on the misconceptions about Native Americans that were common in that era. The program spread internationally to become the Woodcraft Movement and many of these programs still exist. Seton's Woodcraft scheme also had a strong influence on later youth programs and organizations, particularly, the Scout Movement.[1]
- ^ a b Deloria, Philip J. (1999). Playing Indian. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 101, 105, 108. ISBN 9780300080674. Retrieved February 28, 2019.