History of the Order of the Arrow

 The Order of the Arrow was founded by E. Urner Goodman and Carroll A. Edson in 1915 in the Treasure Island Camp at the Philadelphia Council of the Boy Scouts of America. This camp is located in and island of 50 acres on the Delaware River between the stated of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The archives of the island demosntrate that it once served as home of the Lenni-Lennape natives. This is why this tribe is honored as representative of the Order.

The Order of the Arrow was founded with one practical purpose: To promote the Scout Oath and Law in all the parts of the nation. This is the same purpose today. The Order is something related with the individual. The ideals of Brotherhood, Cheerfulness and Service must live in everybody's lifetime. What every arrowman does in his life counts toward the success of the Order of the Arrow as a brotherhood. In 1922 the OA becam a pilot program and in 1934 it was approved by the National Committee as part of the official Boy Scouts of America program. In 1948, it was adopted by the National Camping Program, under the name National Brotherhood of Honor Campers.

The Yokahu Lodge # 506, of the Puerto Rico Council, was established on the year 1954 during an ordeal celebrated at the Experimental Station on Rio Piedras. The Ordealmaster for this activity was Dr. Frank H. Wadsworth. The Lodge took as its totem the cemi (native idol) and as its Lodge name Yukiyu which was later changed to Yokahu.