Maiden Program

Purpose To foster understanding and companionship between mother and daughter.
Membership mother and daughter ages 5 to 10.
Pledge We, mother and daughter, through friendly service to each other, to our family, to this tribe, to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of the Great Spirit.
Slogan Friends Always.
Aims 1.To be clean in body and pure in heart.
2.To be pals forever with my father/daughter.
3.To love the sacred circle of my family.
4.To listen while others speak.
5.To love my neighbor as myself.
6.To seek and preserve the beauty of the Great Spirit's work in forest, field and stream.
Headband The central theme of the headband is the sign of the eye of the Great Spirit with the crossed arrows of friendship on the left side and the circle heart of love on the right side. The symbols for mother and daughter are next to the grouped tepees, which indicate happy work in the communiy, and the single tepee, which denotes happy work in the home. The trees, water, and grass exhort the wearer to see and preserve the Great Spirit's beauty in forest, field and stream.