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Early photo of playing Indian at Seton’s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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E<\/strong>arly girls\u2019 camps were established on ideas to build a nation and resist the perceived drawback of modernity – through the wholesale acculturation of Native American lifeways.\u00a0 In response to these anxieties stimulated by a rapidly altered American culture, ideas of child development were perceived as a way to protect and ensure a continuity of a physically superior race. In this vein, camps were a way to maintain emotional and physically gendered roles for future citizens of a growing nation.<\/p>\n

O<\/strong>ver time, summer camps challenged girls to be strong, independent and skillful.<\/p>\n

G<\/strong>irl\u2019s camps were seen as progressive institute of education and became an accepted part of girls\u2019 development among white middle and upper-class families. Leaders of the camps saw camp experiences as a way to improve girls lives by enhancing their relationship with family and friends-and building self-respect, self- reliance and courage. Summer camps continue to operate and some with the use of \u201ctime honored Native American themes using respectful approaches to Indigenous culture and competency.\u201d (ACA) How camps afford respectful and educative activities within sociocultural contexts remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

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Girl Scouts of America,
Indiana State Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n