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[4] The Order had a considerable influence in the founding of the Forest School Camps movement. [5] There is little evidence of interactions between the Order and the Woodcraft Folk, which was also a breakaway from the Kibbo Kift and was similarly inspired by Seton. This may have been because the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry was non-political ...
Another of the active, surviving UK organisations is the Woodcraft Folk, a socialist group originally affiliated with the Co-Operative movement that broke away from Kibbo Kift in the 1920s. They hold weekly meetings similar to Scouts.
In 1916 Ernest Westlake founded the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, he appointed Ernest Thompson Seton as the honorary Grand Chieftain. The Order of Woodcraft Chivalry included the Sun Lodge as a type of innermost circle. Audrey Westlake, the son of Ernest is quoted to have described the Sun Lodge as "in a sense, the church of the movement". [4]
Scouting for Boys (1908) was Baden-Powell's rewrite of his earlier book Aids to Scouting (1899) [2] with many youth training ideas openly taken from The Birch Bark Roll of the Woodcraft Indians (1906) [3] written by Ernest Thompson Seton, who later became the Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America.
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.
Its founders belonged to the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, an English group influenced by the thinking of Ernest Thompson Seton's Woodcraft Indians (later renamed the Woodcraft League of America), whose most lasting creation was the Woodcraft Folk. The movement's outlook represented a mixture of socialism, co-operativism and anti-urbanism, and ...
Each day was based on a different theme: Day 1 was preliminary, day 2 was campaigning, day 3 was observation, day 4 for woodcraft, day 5 was chivalry, day 6 was saving a life, day 7 was patriotism, and day 8 was the conclusion. [3] [7] The participants left by ferry on the 9th day, 9 August 1907. [12]
Ernest Westlake, an anthropologist stimulated by the ideas and work of Ernest Thompson Seton bought the land as a site for his newly formed youth movement the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry. After the death of Ernest his son Aubrey Westlake carried on his ideas and the forerunner of Forest School Camps was established.