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Teen News: Indian Guides
I was talking to my dad recently and at one point the subject turned to our precious time spent together in the organization known as Indian Guides. It's funny how, when I think back on it now... it was basically an excuse for kids to pre-occupy themselves with each other while their dads pre-occupied themselves with each other and drank beer. It's wild to look at the image below and realize, "Wow, I'm now in the same age group as that buncha guys".
Of course, as Indian guides, we tried very hard to get the Native American experience down pat. For example, we took Indian names. I was Tonto to my dad's Kemosabe. And our outfits, too, reflected the colorful spirit of Indian dress...
You should see that get-up once we added some yellow fringe down the outer edges of the blue jeans. It really made the outfit SNAP.
Another great aspect of being in this bunch was when we'd have "meetings" at a certain tribe member's house to discuss stuff, which again, meant all the kids raided the toy box of whoever's house we were at, while the dads shot shit and drank beer. I actually still have the minutes from one of these meetings, and it reads thus...
