Es-Kaielgu Lodge 311

Inland Northwest Council

The Plane Trip

By: Dale Kaiser

The lodge flap on your uniform is like a plane ticket.  Your membership in the lodge is like being in an airport.  The planes are taking off to great places that you have only heard about.  They are heading out for adventure, leadership and Native American activities, Philmont Treks, Japeechan trail and cheerful service.  If you wear the patch and do nothing, that is like standing in an airport with a paid ticket in your hand an not getting on the plane.  It takes off without you, and you are left wondering why everybody goes places but you.  You sit there pondering where it could go.

All you have to do is get on the plane.

The Es-Kaielgu Lodge Yell

(begin with hands together in an O shape, yelling Ooooh, gradually getting louder & higher in pitch)

Ooooooooooooooooooooh,

We are the Es-Kaielgu lodge

You’ve heard so much about;

We’ll show up all you other lodges,

Whenever we go out;

We’re fighters and we’re hell-raisers

In every thing we do;

So come on all you other lodges,

 we’ll make you rowdy too!!!

"You Might Be An Overactive Arrowman If..."

1. If you pass the time by writing up new ceremonies.
2. If you put all your OA dates into your computer and it runs out of memory.
3. If your BSA uniform gets worn more than any other outfit.
4. If you insist on wearing the discontinued Lodge Position patches on your Scout uniform.
5. If you have served as Elangomat of several clans, all at once.
6. If non-Arrowmen in your council think you have moved in at the local Scout camp.
7. If you get mail sent to the Council Scout camp.
8. If the tie you wear on Sunday is white with a single red arrow on it.
9. If you own underwear with red arrows on them.
10. If you just repainted your room and put the legend on the wall as a mural.

• Es-Kaielgu Lodge 311 • Inland Northwest Council 611 •

Welcome

What is Es-Kaielgu

By: David Church

Revised by John Downing

Three lodges have come together to form our lodge.  The first two, merged in 1993, Lemolloillahee and Sel Koo Sho, with the third, Wawookia, joining in 1995.

We have retired the old totems of our lodges to make room for a new and more exciting one, the Appaloosa.  This is an appropriate symbol for our lodge because this horse has been regarded by the Native Americans of the plateau as a symbol of strength and swiftness in battle.  The Appaloosa is also unique to our area because it was bred by the native tribes of the plateau.

Research disclosed that Es-Kaielgu means, spotted horse in the Flathead Kalispell language.  In the late 1800’s a missionary recorded this word from the unwritten language.

 

Mission of Es-Kaielgu Lodge 311

“To achieve the purpose of The Order of the Arrow as an integral part of the Boy Scouts of America in the Inland Northwest Council. Through positive youth leadership and service to the community, we will prepare the youth of the Inland Northwest Council to be the leaders of our communities, state, and nation. We will honor those Scouts that best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives with membership in the Order of the Arrow, and continue to strive to be recognized as Scouting’s National Honor Society in our council.”

• Contact us at es.kaielgu@gmail.com •