Native scouts were often considered a threat by colonial powers because of their knowledge of the land and potential to aid in uprisings or resist colonization. By eliminating native scouts who were perceived as a threat, the colonizers aimed to weaken indigenous resistance and maintain control over the territory.
Beaver scouts got their name by native Americans that killed beavers.Interesrting
The native amaricans tried to kill them.
Boy Scouts were founded first.
The Apaches.
GIs & South Vietnamese scouts (Tiger scouts in the Mekong Delta, the same scouts were called Kit Carsons in the Highlands and I Corps) used to use the term, "crocodile."
The Boy Scouts were started before the Girls Scouts and most of the "lore" such as signs was already well developed even in the first handbooks so it would have to be that the Boy Scout's sign came before the Girl Scout's.
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England
Typically, boys join Cub Scouts when they are in first grade.
Scouts dress
Possums do not kill native trees in Australia, but they are destructive to the native forests in New Zealand, where they have been introduced.
Girl Scouts back in the early 1920's.