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About Ma-Nu Lodge – Mission and History
This page provides information about the specific mission of the Ma-Nu Lodge. It also includes a brief history of the lodge, as well as a link to the lodge's online patch collection and online media archive.
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The mission of the lodge is to achieve the purpose of the Order of the Arrow as an integral part of the Boy Scouts of America in the council through positive youth leadership under the guidance of selected, capable adults.
MaNu Lodge No. 133 was originally chartered to the Central Oklahoma Area Council, Region 9 on August 20, 1938. One year later the Central Oklahoma Area Council rechartered as Last Frontier Council. This makes MaNu Lodge one year older than Last Frontier Council. Over the next few decades there would be several mergers and reorganizations within the structure of both the Lodge and the Council.
As the area of the lodge expanded, the lodge began to need another form of organization. In 1963, MaNu lodge set up Chapters with borders corresponding to the districts established by the Council. In 1950, Canadian Valley Council merged with Last Frontier Council and Shawnee Lodge 192 became part of MaNu Lodge 133. Again in 1996 Black Beaver Council merged with Last Frontier Council and two years later Sekettummaqua Lodge 281 completed its merger with MaNu bringing the number of members to near 1700 and the total number of Chapters to ten.
Today, the lodge has experienced a myriad of growth and development and continues to tweak its organizational structure to better meet the demands of today's program. There are currently five Lodge Officers: The Lodge Chief; The Lodge Vice Chief for Committees; The Lodge Vice Chief for Chapter Operations; The Lodge Secretary and The Lodge Treasurer. There are also numerous Associate Lodge Advisers.
Meaning of Name: |
White Buffalo (in the Osage language)* |
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Location: |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
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Lodge Totem: |
White Buffalo |
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Founding Date: |
August 20, 1938 |
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Members: |
1700 |
*Special Note: Although the literal translation of MaNu is White Buffalo, the Osage word for white also meant Spirit, so MaNu means Spirit Buffalo.
Patches of the Lodge
If you are interested in lodge flaps of MaNu Lodge, here are scanned images of some of the patches. May take a minute or two on a slower connection.
You can access copies of back issues of the Spirit of the Buffalo, videos and photographs of lodge activities, and minutes of past lodge meetings by clicking here.
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