Why
 We have designed the YMCA Adventure Guides program to assist you and your child on your journey of discovery.  We seek to encourage you as a parent to “get to know your kid while your kid is still a kid.”

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Origin
In 1926 Harold S. Keltner, St. Louis YMCA Director, organized the first tribe in Richmond Heights, Missouri, with the help of his good friend, Joe Friday, an Ojibway Indian, and William H. Hefelfinger, Chief of the first Y-Indian Guide tribe.

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Fun with The McKinney Nation
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Adventure Guides Video


Fun with Indian Guides by Bill Envall from Hollywood, CA.


On This Website

This website has two main areas that you can use. 

  • It has public information for anyone interested in finding out more information about the McKinney TX Adventure Guides program. 
    • Legends and Stories of current participants, Smoke Signals from the Longhouse Council, the Why in Adventure Guides, the Origin of the program and the McKinney Nation Event Calendar.
  • And it has a private area that includes a social community for all those that are involved in the Adventure Guides or Adventure Indian Princesses program. 
    • Facebook type functionality in a private group setting, add pictures, video and other media, post on friends walls, find and add friends in groups

If you are a member of the McKinney Adventure Guides / Princess Nation - please register for an account and join in on the fun.  Register is right below the logo in the upper left hand corner of each page.

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Rank (41) Views 41 On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 10:30 PM, 32 days ago By SuperUser Account

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We are now in open enrollment for the McKinney Nation. Please feel free to recruit new participants to your tribe, to the Nation for assignment to a tribe or let us know how we can help you if you need some assistance in explaining the program or the enr...

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Rank (69) Views 69 On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 12:35 PM, 32 days ago By Shane Adam

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We will be having an enrollment drive on August 28. A hotdog cook out will be held in the parking lot of the McKinney YMCA where we will be advertising to passing traffic for K-3 enrollment for the Adventure Guides Program. We need help increasing the...

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