White Entitlement and the Early Scouting Movement by Jimmy Lee Beason II, Osage

In 1902, a Scottish European, named Ernest Thompson Seton migrated to America and eventually settled in Connecticut. Living on 100 acres of “pristine” stolen Native land, it was here Seton, and his hardy band of juvenile Indian phonies were learning how to track animals, identify animal and plant species, communicate using “Indian sign language,” make shelter and tie ropes into complicated knots.

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