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Early
Days
Nayawin Rar began during the late 1920s. Back then it was known as Kunieh, an
honor camper organization. It was one of several groups developed across the country to keep the interest
the older boys in Scouting. The Kunieh program was eventually absorbed into the
Boy Scouts of America Order of the Arrow program.
Nayawin
Rar became an official OA lodge in 1945. Today
the lodge is more than 200 members strong.
What's
the story behind the name and totem?
During the late 40s a group of Arrowmen were meeting to select a suitable name
for the Tuscarora lodge. At the time, the lodge was located at the old camp near
Goldsboro, NC. Late one evening, several people were sitting outside and noticed
nighthawks, small nocturnal birds, swooping through the deep blue midnight sky.
That was it. The lodge totem became the image of a nighthawk. Nayawin Rar
means 'nighthawk' in the language of the Tuscarora Indians.
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