Editing Order of the Arrow (section)

===Early years===
[[File:BrandonWilsonOABrotherhood.JPG|thumb|150px|1969 Order of the Arrow Brotherhood Card featuring a drawing of a Native American Chief]]
Goodman and Edson, the founders of the Order of the Arrow, opted to portray what they saw as Native American characteristics "as a sign of scouting excellence",<ref name="Deloria">{{Cite book |last=Deloria |first=Philip J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQFBTKi4aYsC&pg=PA126 |title=Playing Indian |date=1999 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300080674 |location=New Haven |pages=105, 108, 126–7, 165, et al |author-link=Philip J. Deloria |access-date=February 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210608063410/https://books.google.com/books?id=dQFBTKi4aYsC&pg=PA126 |archive-date=June 8, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> and that the imagery, costuming, titles and imitation rituals "evoked a primitivist exterior Indian Other, vanished from the modern world but still accessible through ritual and its accompanying objects."<ref name=Deloria/> Goodman and Edson established the OA at Treasure Island Scout Reservation as a Scouting honor society "based on a loose interpretation of" ''[[The Song of Hiawatha|Hiawatha]]'' and the novel ''[[The Last of the Mohicans]]''. Inductions of new OA members at Treasure Island involved OA members meeting around bonfires in "ritual Indian costume".<ref name=Deloria/>