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YMCA developed the first known English as a Second Language program in the United States in response to the influx of immigrants in the 1850s. [6] Starting before the American Civil War, [7] YMCA provided nursing, shelter, and other support in wartime. [8] In 1879 Darren Blach organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA in Florida. Over the years, 69 ...
Indian Guides or variant may refer to: a guide for the bush, or from a native population; Military. Corps of Guides (India) Children's Guiding. YMCA Indian Guides, the former name of Adventure Guides, an outdoor youth program; a girl guide/scout in/from India, see Scouting and Guiding in India
The Indian princess or Native American princess is usually a stereotypical and inaccurate representation of a Native American or other Indigenous woman of the Americas. [1] The term "princess" was often mistakenly applied to the daughters of tribal chiefs or other community leaders by early American colonists who mistakenly believed that Indigenous people shared the European system of royalty. [1]
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
Atalie Unkalunt, which translates from Cherokee to Sunshine Rider in English, was known as Josie Rider to her white friends. [2] [3] She was born on June 12, 1895, on a farm near Stilwell, in the Going Snake District of the Cherokee Nation Indian Territory to Josephine (née Pace) and Thomas LaFayette Rider (Dom-Ges-Ke Un Ka Lunt).
The National Council of YMCAs of India is a part of the global YMCA fraternity which is known as World Alliance of YMCAs. It was formed in Madras on February 21, 1891 through the initiative of David McConaughy. The headquarters shifted to Calcutta in May, 1902.
The YMCA has thus far been an urban movement with specific objectives. Paul took it in a new direction, mindful of the peculiar problems of rural Indian society as compared to the industrialized, urban, and literate Western society for whose specific needs the YMCA had been created.
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