My dad and I got to choose our Indian names and were part of the mighty Iowa tribe. He chose Bald Eagle and I chose Hummingbird. One Monday every month, my dad and I went to a local church basement for meetings. We'd play games, do crafts, and talk about upcoming activities. We even got cool vests and headbands to wear. It was really fun.
We'd do different activities to earn badges to put on our vests. Some of them included the Pumpkin Hunt, Bowling, Canoe-On-Wheels, Kite Fly, and, of course, Fall, Winter, and Spring Campouts.
I remember my first ever campout. I was in Kindergarten and we were at a place called Camp Duncan. My dad and I wanted to go canoeing, but he wasn't the best at paddling a canoe. Before I knew it, our canoe tipped over and we were stuck in the freezing water! We screamed help for 5-10 minutes before someone was able to come out and save us. It was a pretty funny experience. In the end, we ended up getting our tribe's trophy for our great canoeing skills.
So you may be thinking "How does this relate to Camp Tecumseh?" Well, Camp Tecumseh was one of our campout destinations. After my first year as an Indian Princess, Camp Tecumseh became the place for the fall campout. They would let us come up on Friday night, feed us dinner, open the Trading Post and let us do archery, riflery, go down the black hole, and have a trail ride, complete with the annual bug hunt and a campfire.
Also, Camp Tecumseh had the coolest cabins (with bathrooms in them, unlike Camp MacLean) and it was something all of us princesses looked forward to. So me and two of my friends (Katie and Jill) decided to go to Camp Tecumseh for a week during the summer.
And so the journey begins...
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