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by W e s H a rty/ Director of Indian Villages, Forest Home T o A ju n io r c h il d (and many adults) reared in the midst of venirs and curios instead of sacks of flour and canned goods.
asphalt, concrete, miniscule grass plots and the sameness of suburbia, the Indian Villages at Forest Home seem like another world. The access highway to the Conference Center snaking past towering canyon walls and along the base of ten-thousand- foot peaks is in itself an experience. But to hike a primitive road from the main camp center up the moun tainside, through the pine, oak and cedar forest and suddenly stumble upon Sioux tipis planted in scattered clearings is like wandering Through the Looking Glass with Sitting Bull. It’s a dramatic setting — some thing out of the past with a few bows to modernity. There are the tipis, constructed and erected like the famous Plains Indian dwellings of the past century, but made of yards of waterproofed and fllame- proofed canvas instead of 15 or 20 ponderous buffalo hides, tails at tached. There is the Trading Post, common to all Indian reservations, but stocked with crafts materials in stead of cooking pots, with rabbit pelts instead of rations, with sou-
Although seemingly another world to the multitudes using them, the Villages are distinctly allied with the 20th Century and the needs of this century’s children. This project’s very existence sprang out of the philosophy of graded camps firmly espoused by Miss Henrietta Mears, Forest Home’s founder and spiritual mentor. For the best teaching in Sunday schools, she reasoned, chil dren are placed in facilities built and geared to children, adults in rooms equipped for adults. Why should the camping experience be any different? It’s on this basis that the Indian Villages were developed exclusively for 4th, 5th and 6th grad ers and the Rancho area for junior highers only. (And it is in the con text of this philosophy that a camp site developed for senior high young people is being projected.) The Villages are not camps for camp’s sake. They are a vital exten sion of the Christian education pro gram of the forty-five churches and denominational groups using them during a summer.
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