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===Hoosier Trails Council===
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The Hoosier Trails Council, BSA serves in 18 counties in south-central Indiana, and to more than 6,000 youth each year.<ref name="About Us">{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.hoosiertrailsbsa.org/726 |access-date=2020-02-25 |website=Hoosier Trails Council}}</ref>

====History====
The Hoosier Trails Council is the result of several council mergers.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hook |first1=James |url=https://www.angelfire.com/tx6/patch/cspbook.html |title=An Aid to Collecting Selected Council Shoulder Patches with Valuation |last2=Franck |first2=Dave |last3=Austin |first3=Steve |year=1982}}</ref>

In 1921, the Bartholomew County Council (#150) was founded. During the late 1920s, it merged into the Hoosier Hills Area Council (#150), founded in 1928.

In 1928 the Lost River Area Council was founded. In 1931 it was absorbed into the White River Area Council (#145), founded in 1927.

In 1973, White River and Hoosier Hills merged to form the Hoosier Trails Council (#145).

====Organization====
*Muscatatuck District (Hoosier Hills District and Lenni Lenape District merged in 2019) serving [[Dearborn County, Indiana|Dearborn]], [[Jefferson County, Indiana|Jefferson]], [[Ohio County, Indiana|Ohio]], [[Ripley County, Indiana|Ripley]], [[Switzerland County, Indiana|Switzerland]], [[Bartholomew County, Indiana|Bartholomew]], [[Jackson County, Indiana|Jackson]], [[Decatur County, Indiana|Decatur]], & [[Jennings County, Indiana|Jennings]] Counties
*Wapehani District (Miami District and Valley Trails District merged in 2008) serving [[Brown County, Indiana|Brown]], [[Monroe County, Indiana|Monroe]], [[Morgan County, Indiana|Morgan]] & [[Owen County, Indiana|Owen]] Counties
*White River Trails District (Lincoln Trails District and Southern Trails District merged in 1990) serving [[Lawrence County, Indiana|Lawrence]], [[Orange County, Indiana|Orange]], [[Martin County, Indiana|Martin]], [[Daviess County, Indiana|Daviess]], & [[Greene County, Indiana|Greene]] Counties

====Camps====
Resident summer camp is held at '''Maumee Scout Reservation''', located on [[Lake Tarzian]] in the [[Hoosier National Forest]].<ref name="Aubrey">{{Cite news |last=Woods |first=Aubrey |date=2019-03-13 |title=Maumee Scout Reservation receives $1 million grant for severe weather shelter |work=The Tribune |url=http://www.tribtown.com/2019/03/11/maumee_scout_reservation_receives_1_million_grant_for_severe_weather_shelter/ |access-date=2020-02-25}}</ref> Maumee first opened in 1972 for White River Council as a replacement for its previous camp, Camp Wapehani in [[Bloomington, Indiana|Bloomington]], Indiana which had been divided by a recent re-alignment of State Road 37. The {{convert|640|acre}} property is near in [[Norman, Indiana|Norman]], Indiana.<ref name="MSR">{{Cite web |title=Maumee Scout Reservation |url=https://www.hoosiertrailsbsa.org/899 |access-date=2020-02-25 |website=Hoosier Trails Council}}</ref> Lake Tarzian is named after [[Sarkes Tarzian]] who led the capital campaign to build the camp.<ref name="Maumee">{{Cite web |title=Maumee Scout Reservation |url=https://hoosiertrailsbsa.org/2461 |access-date=2020-02-25 |website=hoosiertrailsbsa}}</ref>

Until 2023, the council also possessed Camp Louis Ernst in [[Dupont, Indiana|Dupont]]. Louis Ernst was founded in 1928 and operated by Hoosier Hills Council until its merger with White River Council to form Hoosier Trails Council in 1973. After this, Louis operated as a summer camp until 1983 when it was reduced to primitive camping. The camp was officially transferred to a group known as the Friends of Camp Louis Ernst in 2023.

====Order of the Arrow====
Nischa Chuppecat Lodge (#212) is Hoosier Trails' Order of the Arrow Lodge. It was founded in 1973 as the merger of Wazi Yata (#290) and So-Aka-Gha-Gwa (#212) lodges.

Both So-Aka-Gha-Gwa and Wazi Yata can trace back their heritage to other organizations separate from the Order of the Arrow.

The predecessor to So-Aka-Gha-Gwa, the Order of The Golden Arrow, was founded at Cataract Falls in the late 1930s and became So-Aka-Gha-Gwa Lodge in 1941.

The predecessor to Wazi Yata, the Order of the Wazi Yata, was founded at Camp Louis Ernst in 1934 and became Wazi Yata Lodge in 1945.

Nischa Chuppecat and So-Aka-Gha-Gwa have collectively hosted the National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC) at Indiana University eleven times as of the summer of 2018, the most of any lodge in the nation.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}