The year is wrapping up, and its time to give your tribe the credit it has earned for all the activities you've done with your sons and daughters. If you went to all the Longhouses from September through June, you'd have earned 500 point (50 each). If your tribe had over 50% participation at the three camp outs, that's another 600 points (200 each). Just those two items would bring you 1100 of the required 1600 points to be designated an Honor Tribe. Add to that participation in Secret Santa, Pinewood Derby, Pow Wows, Wolves game, Western Springs Christmas play, Bike Hike, NCAA Fellowship Fund Raiser, and the Giving Tree. You even get 100 points for each new member of your tribe, and for every dad who volunteers to serve as a Nation Chief. Still to come, you can earn points for participation in the Pet Parade and the Golf Outing. You get 100 points if more than 50% of your tribe participated, and 50 points if less than 50%. And these are just the Federation sponsored events.

Guides and Princess tribes have sponsored Christmas trees at the Brookfield Zoo, participated in NEAT Day and the Salt Creek Clean Up, passed out water at local 5K races, raised money and awareness for our troops overseas, local food banks, homeless shelters, caroled at senior centers, gone to local Daddy-Daughter Dances, played Laser Tag, gone bowling, and so much more. All these tribal activities earn honor points. For tribal events, you get 100 points if more than 50% of your tribe participates, 0 points for less than 50%.

It is amazing to think that our Federation tribes do so much good within our community - while having so much fun.

And getting credit is so simple - send me an email and tell me what you have done. That's it. To help in that regard, I attached the Federation's cut sheet for Honor Points from the Federation website, http://www.yigp.org/, and a great Excel form developed by the Seneca Tribe. On this form, just click on the criteria column and use the pull down tab to indicate what percentage of your tribe participated. For tribal events not listed, type them in under column C, Activity, and complete the rest. The form calculates your points automatically. Here are the Links 

New Honor Form       Requirements 

And if these aids don't work for you, just free text me an email with participation percentage included - again, only <50% or >50%.

I've attached the Honor Tribe reports for both Guides and Princesses that are posted on the Federation website so that you can see where your tribe stands. These will be updated twice more this year - once for the June Longhouse and finally after 1 July, so that you can get credit for Pet Parade and Golf Outing attendance, as well as any special end of year tribal events.

Questions, see me at the Longhouse on Monday, June 4, or just shoot me an email.

Jim McLean

"Wild Turkey"