Adventure
Guide
Indian
Guide - Indian Princess Programs
Use the our already
designed
Yguide and Adventure guide craft kits
or ask us to help you with
you Indian crafts
Great stuff that you can make
with your group.
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The YMCA Y-Indian Guides, Y-Indian
Princesses, Y-Indian Braves and Y-Indian Maidens, also known as the
YMCA Adventure Guide Program are year-round programs designed to
build strong relationships between parents and their
children.
It is open to families with children in kindergarten to third
grade.
The YMCA guide program was
started
by Harold S. Keltner, St. Louis YMCA Director and Joe Friday, an
Ojibway Indian.
The participants in the YMCA Family
Programs learn about American Indian people
their culture, their customs, crafts and games, and seek to bring
new understanding and appreciation of the
Native American Heritage and the
contributions Native Americans have made to our nation.
They strive to share the qualities of the American Indian culture
and life:
Dignity, Patience, Endurance, Spirituality, Feeling for the earth,
and Concern for the family.
Some YMCA y-guide programs are now called
YMCA Adventure guides
but have strived to keep the Native American theme.
The reason the YMCA uses the Native American theme is to help focus
the groups,
and to bring traditional values and organizational structure to the
program.
The YMCA you join will assign you to a group called a circle or
tribe,
that will meet on a regular basis in each others’ homes, weekly,
biweekly or monthly.
YMCA guides tribes/groups will get together for campouts and family
outings, throughout the year
to go on campouts, and other field trips.
1. To be clean in body and pure in heart.
2. To be pals forever with my father/son.
3. To love the sacred circle of my family.
4. To listen while others speak.
5. To love my neighbor as myself.
6. To seek and preserve the beauty of the Great Spirit's work in
forest, field, and stream
To quote Joe Friday:
“The Indian father raises his son. He teaches
his son to hunt, to track, to fish, to walk softly and silently in
the forest,
to know the meaning and purpose of life and all he must know, while
the white man allows the mother to raise his son.”
For more information on The
Adventure Guide Program, YMCA Y-Indian Guides,
Y-Indian Princesses,
Y-Indian Braves and Y-Indian Maidens
Click here for links to the YMCA's that
have these
programs.
Use the our already designed
Craft kits for Yguide and Adventure Guide Programs
or ask us to help you with you Indian crafts.
Child's Kit
Measure 4X the distance you are going to sew and cut off the
sinew.
Thread needle with waxed sinew and twist to secure thread onto
needle.
Overlap and align shoulder holes at left back (top) panel over
front panel.
Leave 2" of thread at first hole, sew along seam "in and out"
running stitch to the end.
Turn and sew back to starting point filling in between previous
stitches.
Double stitch through the last hole and tie ends of thread together
in a square knot. Trim off the excess thread.
Melt knot into itself to secure the knot and stitching from
unraveling.
Overlap and align holes of the left front (side) panel over
left back panel.
Leave 2" of thread at first hole, sew along seam "in and out"
running stitch to the end.
Turn and sew back to starting point filling in between previous
stitches.
Double stitch through the last hole and tie ends of thread together
in a square knot. Trim off the excess thread.
Melt knot into itself to secure the knot and stitching from
unraveling.
Repeat overlap steps on right side of the vest.
**NOTE**
You can overlap the seams in any way that you would like to as far
as back over front, or front over back.
You can add 2 different color pony beads in the stitching to add
decoration to the vest.
You would just add the beads as you are sewing...it is suggested
that you only add beads to the top and side stitching.
Adding beads to the back of the adult vests will cause the beads to
rub on chairs etc and make it uncomfortable.
Adult Kit
Begin by construction the back of your adult vest kit
Begin stitching at the bottom center of the vest.
Measure 4X the distance you are going to sew and cut off sinew.
(You will use 1 piece of sinew for the full back...
so measure 4X across the back and from the bottom to center of
V-shape if vest)
Thread needle with waxed sinew and twist to secure thread onto
needle.
Place 2 bottom back panels together, overlapping left over
right.
The top panel is overlapped over BOTH bottom panels.
Leave 2" of thread at first hole, sew along seam "in and out"
running stitch to the end.
Starting at bottom, go up to venter, over to the right, back to
center, stitch to the left and then back to center.
Then stitch back to your starting point at the bottom center of the
vest.
Double stitch the last hole and tie ends of thread together in a
square knot. Trim off part of excess thread
Melt knot into itself to secure the knot and stitching from
unraveling.
Follow instructions above (under Child's kit) to sew shoulders and
sides of vests.
Hopefully the instructions we have created for construction of
your y-guide vests using artificial sinew,
will be helpful in making your vests a project you can do with your
child.
Leathercraft
Cement Glue Notes: Glueing
your patches to your Adventure guide vest
If the back of your patch is shiny (which many of them are now),
scuff up the back of the patch so that the glue will adhere.
Place the patch on the vest in the position where it will be
glued.
Mark around the patch lightly with a pencil.
Put a thin coat of glue on the back of the patch and in the space
you have marked out for the patch.
Allow glue to become tacky. Put patch on vest in position.
Set a book on top of the patch when the patch is on the vest to
hold them together while the glue dries.
MAKE SURE that you only apply a THIN coat of glue...
If you put too much glue on the patch or vest it will seep over the
sides of the patch and stain the vest.
Try to get the glue all the way to the bottom edges of the patch
so that they will be fully adhered to the vest.
If the edges are not glued down this tends to cause the edges to
lift and the patch to "pop off"
YMCA - Adventure Guides, Y-guides,
Y-princess Events
The YMCA has a really cool program called
the YMCA Y-Guides.
If you and I join, we would get to do really neat stuff
together.
We would be guides and explorers who meet with other dads/moms and
kids.
They would come to our house (or we would go to theirs) for
meetings about once a month.
But the meetings would be fun...we’d have ceremonies and snacks and
play games.
We’d also get to go on adventures in our community.
And, oh yeah, camping and being outdoors is a big part of the
program.
We would wear cool vests and patches and maybe even carry walking
sticks.
Let’s call the YMCA to find out how we can join.
Can we?
Many of these events are only attended by memnbers of the YMCA
y-guide program,
A great program that fosters a relationship between a parent and
their child.
If you are interested in attending this programs or would like more
information about
the Indian Guides, Indian Princess, or papoose programs (now known
at some YMCA's as Adventure Guides)
Contact the YMCA in your area and sign up!
To join in on these events you need to be a member of the YMCA
guide or princess programs.
Please contact your
local YMCA about joining these programs.
Triunfo
Y-Guides and Y-Princesses
Calendar
The Triunfo Family
YMCA
proudly serves the families of
Agoura, Agoura
Hills,
Westlake Village, and Oak Park
4031 N. Moorpark
Rd.
Thousand Oaks, CA
91360
Office: (805)
523-7613
Indian Guides
Former
West Valley YMCA Indian Guide
Participant's
Personal page of
a brave 'n dad.
SIMI FEDERATION
Adventure Guide Program
Simi Valley Family YMCA
Y-Indian Guide Program Page
3200 Cochran
Street
Simi Valley, CA
93065
Phone:
805-583-5338
Fax: 805-583-5476
