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	Kibbo Kift - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kibbo Kift (archaic Kentish dialect for “proof of great strength”) has been described as “The only genuine English national movement of modern times” and was certainly very different from Baden-Powell’s Boy Scouts.
		Based on the woodcraft principles of the naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton that had been a key part of the early Scout programme, the Kibbo Kift was to be not merely a youth organisation but was to involve all ages and, very daring for the times, it was open to both sexes.
		The Kibbo Kift's central activities of hiking and camping were refined and elevated to the level of a spiritual exercise.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kindred_of_the_Kibbo_Kift (684 words)

	A History of the Kibbo Kift
		On August 18, 1920, a group of young men met in a London hall to formalise the foundation of a new movement to be known as the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift.
		The Kibbo Kift "habit" was replaced by a simplified uniform (the "Green Shirt"), and a disciplined paramilitary technique with marching, drums and banners cut through the barrier of suppression and brought the message direct to the people.
		But the ideas and ideals of the Kindred remain as alive and vigorous as ever, and many in all walks of life acknowledge the debt they owe to their early training in the Kibbo Kift and the Green Shirts.
	www.kibbokift.org /kkkhist.htm (1902 words)

	The Woodcraft Folk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The aims of this youth organisation are to develop self-confidence and activity in society, with the intention of working towards "a world based on equality, peace, social justice and co-operation".
		In its early days it was very similar to the Kibbo Kift, with a strong pagan and anti-capitalist emphasis, but gradually developed its own distinct ethos.
		The name 'woodcraft' was used by the influential writer and naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton at the turn of the twentieth century when setting up the American proto-scouting organisation Woodcraft Indians, and in this context meant the skill of living in the open air, close to nature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Woodcraft_Folk (410 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kibbo Kift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was founded in 1920 by the charismatic John Hargrave (White Fox), artist, author and Boy Scout Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping, who had become disenchanted with the increasingly militaristic tendency in the Scout movement after WWI.
		He was promptly expelled from the Scouts by Baden-Powell, and with a small group of like-minded, dissident, anti-war scoutmasters and mistresses under his own direct leadership, set about building an alternative and very different movement.
		More information about the Kibbo Kift can be found on the website of the Kibbo Kift Foundation at http://www.kibbokift.org.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kibbo-Kift (770 words)

	Woodcraft History
		A similar process led to the birth of the most colorful of the British Woodcraft organizations, the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift.
		Kibbo kift, a phrase in old Kentish dialect meaning "Proof of Great Strength," provided a name, and Seton's Woodcraft formed a framework on which the gifted and charismatic Hargrave constructed his own system.
		The Kibbo Kift converted itself into a political movement during the Depression, espousing social and economic reform, and then went out of existence in 1950; a successor organization, the Kibbo Kift Foundation, still exists and preserves many Kindred artifacts and records.
	www.earthcrafters.org /history.htm (1632 words)

	The Very Best Books : Social Movements and Their Supporters: The Green Shirts in England
		Mark Drakeford's book on the Kibbo Kift and the Green shirts is a book that should have be written many years ago.
		This is a shame as it casts a particular light on the KKK and Hargrave.
		The history of the Kibbo Kift and the Green Shirts is well documented in the book Social Movements and their Supporters - The Green Shirts in England by Mark Drakeford, Lecturer in Social Studies and Applied Social Studies at University of Wales College of Cardiff.
	www.elise.com /store/Reviews/ItemId/0312172451 (449 words)

	AIM25: British Library of Political and Economic Science: Youth Movement Archive
		The Archive holds the papers of the following organisations: The Kibbo Kift Kindred was founded in 1920 by John Hargrave and some of his fellow scoutmasters as an alternative to Scouting.
		The archives of the Kibbo Kift Kindred, the Green Shirt Movement and the Social Credit Party were placed in the College Library in 1978, with a further deposit in [1982].
		Further records of the Kibbo Kift Kindred are held at the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Aylesbury.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=3872&inst_id=1 (777 words)

	ViaMichelin Magazine
		Not everyone approved of the militaristic ethos of Baden-Powell's Boy Scout movement, and 1920s teenagers had a number of alternatives, including the Woodcraft Folk and the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a wonderful group of hippy-like enthusiasts who designed colourful and outlandish costumes for themselves and believed in fostering children's creativity.
		But camping out on the Heath with the Kibbo Kift was, in a sense, backward-looking - a rejection of urban values in the search for a lost Arcadia.
		Much more typical of the age, and of this exhibition, is the celebration of motor cars, skyscrapers, talking pictures, robots and the golden lifts of Selfridges store, bringing American glitz and mass-market consumer values to the Old World.
	www.viamichelin.com /viamichelin4/gbr/tpl/mag3/art20040201/htm/eve_1920.htm (383 words)

	Youth Movement Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Their emphasis of woodcraft training and recapitulation theories of education had the support of a number of radical thinkers. John Hargraves growing interest in social credit resulted in the gradual development of the Kibbo Kift into a political party.
		The Woodcraft Folk broke away from the Kibbo Kift and founded their own group in 1925.
		Papers of C A Tacey, [1928-1982], including material relating to the Social Credit Party and the Kibbo Kift Kindred, 1928-1982, notably Kibbo Kift songbooks, a biographical essay on John Hargrave, press cuttings, leaflets, pamphlets and journals.
	www.lse.ac.uk /library/archive/gutoho/youth_movement_archive.htm (319 words)

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		The major premise of the Kibbo Kift Kindred was - "the proper function of the individual was to live splendidly." This is pure Nietzsche.
		When the South-East London Section of the K.K.K. seceded in 1924 to form the Woodcraft Folk, Hargrave was using the Kibbo Kift Kin to further his grandiose political aims.
		Hargrave recognised that the unemployed masses and the activists in the labour movement could swell the ranks of the K.K.K., and eventually be organised on a national scale to implement his dream of social regeneration.
	www.fortunecity.com /roswell/angelic/361/3.html (4218 words)

	Kibbo Kift - Definition, explanation
		on the woodcraft principles of the naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton that had been a key part of the early Scout programme, the Kibbo Kift was to be not merely a youth organisation but was to involve all ages and, very daring for the times, it was open to both sexes.
		in number, never more than a few hundred strong, the Kibbo Kift was nonetheless quite widely known and admired.
		More information about the Kibbo Kift can be found on the website of the Kibbo Kift Foundation at " class="external">http://www.kibbokift.org.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/k/ki/kibbo_kift.php (731 words)

	Museum of London News online: King of the Kindred
		Hargrave hoped that the Kindred, disciplined by fresh air, exercise and the mastery of crafts would act as a catalyst on an apathetic society.
		The symbols and practices of the Kibbo Kift came from many sources, including ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, traditional folk tales, Red Indian woodcraft and Eastern yoga.
		You can learn more about the Kibbo Kift at 1920s: the decade that changed London.
	newsweaver.co.uk /mol_news/e_article000197702.cfm (433 words)

	Following Arrows by S
		Hargrave based the Kindred on Seton’s Woodcraft movement, having long admired the man. However, like both Seton and B-P, the aim of the Hargrave was no less than the regeneration of a society gone slack in the face of urbanized luxury.
		The Kindred, like the Wandervogel, was preoccupied with folk traditions and the mythic idyll of ancient life, which may explain Hargrave’s influence on the German youth movements of the 1920’s.
		Hargrave also incorporated Native American trappings into the Kindred; according to the Kibbo Kift Foundation, the Kindred was organized into Clans and Tribes and each individual was given a Indian woodcraft name by his peers.
	www.100megsfree4.com /stimso/oa2.htm (8070 words)

	Origins of Wicca
		The innermost circle or highest level of the Order was called Witana and was considered the "church" of the movement.
		Another organization formed along the Woodcraft lines was known as Kindred of the Kibbo Kift and was handed down as a tradition through hereditary lines, The Kindred incorporated more of the ancient traditions of Britain, Ango-Saxon, Viking, Celt, etc. & later naturalism (nudity).
		OWC had a pagan slant and was influenced by Greek myth.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/destara/origin.html (508 words)

	Charter Schools & Character Education
		The explanation of this is found in the development of the organization from an educational body into a repository of the elite itself...
		According to Webb's Occult Establishment and other sources, the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift became the chief inspiration of the German Youth Movement, Wandervogel, which served as a training ground for future Nazis.
		Like Kibbo Kift, the Wandervogel offered youth the opportunity to escape bourgeois German society by retreating back to nature.
	watch.pair.com /charter2.html (12407 words)

	Organica News -- Social Commentary: Into the 21st Century In Search of a "Green" Mythos for Millennium Three
		Jouret's blend of hermetic gnosticism and American-style apocalyptic survivalism is not unique—in the underground bunkers beneath Montana, Elizabeth Clare Prophet and her Church Universal and Triumphant traffic with Enochian Ascended Masters while preparing for an imminent missile exchange with Russia.
		And from the alchemists to the Rosicrucian Kindred of the Kibbo Kift to today's right-wing greens, nature mysticism is hardly alien to hermetic occultism.
		Far from casting aspersions on such practices, Jouret's final act points to the severity of his turn away from the mythic hope of a sustained ecology.
	www.organicanews.com /news/article.cfm?story_id=132 (1711 words)

	MAGPIE » 2004 » (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		KIFT, and the main purpose here is rather to outline the subsequent development
		Kibbo Kift to break the power of the money-mongers.
		The Kibbo Kift “habit” was replaced by a simplified uniform
	www.arthurmag.com /magpie?m=2004&w=6 (4558 words)

	ExhibitionsNet.com - The UK Gallery, Museum, Heritage and Visitor Attraction Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Everyday items, from one of the earliest red telephone boxes, through cartoons starring Fritz the Cat, to giant advertising posters, highlight the period as one of innovation and change.
		Meanwhile, a unique collection from the 1920s cult group The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift celebrates a return to a more spiritual sense of Englishness.
		This is the first exhibition in the new Linbury Gallery, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, which is part of a £33m redevelopment programme.
	www.exhibitionsnet.com /archives/20031022.shtml (2441 words)

	Ernest Thompson Seton [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Whilst sharing many of the same historical roots as the Scouting movement, the Woodcraft Folk's direct antecedent was the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, an organisation led by e...
		[click for more], The Kibbo KiftThe Kindred of the Kibbo Kift was founded in 1920 by the charismatic John Hargrave (White Fox), artist, author and Boy Scout Commissioner for Woodcraft and Camping, who had become disenchanted with the increasingly militaristic tendency in the Scout movement after WWI....
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	www.wikimirror.com /Ernest_Thompson_Seton (4606 words)

	Archives:yma
		They were closely associated with the Co-operative Movement and a member of the International Falcon Movement and the Socialist Educational International.
		Foundation concerning its inception, history and continuing activities, 1976-[1989], such as photographs of Kibbo Kift activities taken by Angus Rowland McBean.
		Tacey, [1928-1982], including material relating to the Social Credit Party and the Kibbo Kift Kindred, 1928-1982, notably Kibbo Kift songbooks, a biographical essay on John Hargrave,
	library-2.lse.ac.uk /archives/socialreformeractivists/yma.html (400 words)

	Ernest Thompson Seton and woodcraft
		In short he believed that Baden-Powell had betrayed the spirit of woodcraft.
		His ideas also inspired splinter groups from the Scouts such as Ernest Westlake's Order of Woodcraft Chivalry (formed in 1916) and John Hargrave's Kibbo Kift Kindred (founded in 1920).
		The Woodcraft League of America grew to some 5000 members - but 'organizational laxness and perhaps the eccentricity of Seton's ideas barred sustained growth' (Macleod 1989: 239).
	www.infed.org /thinkers/seton.htm (1509 words)

	Utopia Britannica Reviews
		Radicals made their way to the new settlement, where they found kindred spirits and endowed the place with an exaggerated reputation for 'sandals and scandals'.
		Emphasis at the time on the exceptional missed the more enduring point that here was a worthy experiment, engaging imaginatively in the likes of modern town planning and co-partnership housing.
		Quakers and religious communities also enjoy a good airing, and I was pleased to see generous discussion of the youth movements that emerged after the First World War, notably Kibbo Kift, which originated with John Hargrave, and the Woodcraft Folk, created by Leslie Paul and his brother.
	www.utopia-britannica.org.uk /pages/Reviews.htm (3377 words)

	The Wicca That Never Was - Apologetics research resources on religious cults and sects
		For adults interested in taking part in the rituals of the Woodcraft Indians, Seton established Red Lodges: spiritual, initiatory groups whose practices and principles, according to Greer and Cooper, closely resemble those of modern Wicca.
		From the Red Lodge - and from other offshoot organizations such as the British-based Kindred of the Kibbo Kift - eventually grew the religion we now call Wicca.
		These nature-focused groups employed similar ritual meeting styles, secrecy rules, initiation rites, and even practiced mysticism and "magick" - hallmarks of modern-day Wicca.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /w03.html (990 words)

	The SocioWeb: Sociology Books » Social Movements and Their Supporters: The Green Shirts in England
		This is a shame as it casts a particular light on the KKK and Hargrave.The strength of the book lies in subject.
		The Green shirts were the militant wing of social credit, and Drakeford has raised this fringe group before the eyes of readers of history.
		A wel -written account of the Kibbo Kift and Green Shirts
	www.socioweb.com /sociology-books/book/0312172451 (473 words)

	Museum of London News online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This charismatic character was expelled from the Scout movement and the New Statesman branded his greatest novel, ‘literally unreadable’.
		John Hargrave was best known though, for setting up the most unusual group of twenties London, the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift.
		From Tuesday, at the Museum of London, you can soak up an atmospheric installation by Hungarian artist, Balázs Kicsiny.
	yournewsletters.com /mol_news (514 words)

	Male Rites of Passage – Then and Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But the idea was mutated into a church-based militarist tradition soon after it was formed.
		As a result, in 1919 John Hargrave founded Kibbo Kift, the Woodcraft Kindred, which looked to such diverse sources as the Samurai, Anglo-Saxons, the Dik-Dik society of the Congo, the Rosicrucians and the Native Americans for inspiration.
		Magnificent ideals were there, but he set the joining age at 18, again beyond the age of adolescence, and succeeded to turn his movement into a political party.
	www.shadowlight.clara.net /LifeRites/magazine/vol2/w99_men.html (2199 words)

	Earthcraft Circle
		In the original Woodcraft movement, members made brown robes of Native American style and wore them to Council meetings.
		Some Woodcraft groups overseas had costumes of their own - for example, the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, the most colorful of the British Woodcraft groups, wore green tunics of Robin Hood cut.
		Earthcraft circles are encouraged to choose a costume for council meetings and have each member make his or her own.
	www.earthcrafters.org /circle.htm (2488 words)

	WWW Links Page from Handsworth Woodcraft Folk and Elsewhere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It has information on the Folk, contact addresses, details of policies and principles, events, and links to other local groups.
		Kibbo Kift, Archive material about the organisation from which the Woodcraft Folk developed.
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	homepage.ntlworld.com /oxfordtours/games/gamelink.htm (189 words)

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