The Long Beach Area Council (LBAC), headquartered in
Long Beach
Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States. It is the list of United States cities by population, 44th-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 451,307 as of 2022. A charter ci ...
and founded in 1919, is one of five Boy Scouts of America councils in
Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA County, is the List of United States counties and county equivalents, most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 202 ...
.
Organization
*Iron Star District
*Neptune District
*New Frontier District
Camps
*Camp Tahquitz – Located in
Angelus Oaks, California
*Long Beach Sea Base
Honor camping societies
The Long Beach Area Council did not have an
Order of the Arrow
The Order of the Arrow (OA) is the honor society of Scouting America, composed of Scouts and Scouters who best exemplify the Scout Promise, Scout Oath and Scout Law, Law in their daily lives as elected by their peers. It was founded as a camp fr ...
lodge for many years, but used only its camping honor society, the
Tribe of Tahquitz
The Tahquitz Community is one of a few local Boy Scout honor societies in the United States that have not been absorbed by the Order of the Arrow. The organization was created in 1925 and consisted of 15 honor Scouts who were chosen to start and ...
.
Tribe of Tahquitz
/ref> The Tribe of Tahquitz continues today, but on January 15, 2012[OA Images Blog "New OA Lodge Formed"](_blank)
/ref> the Long Beach Area Council formed an Order of the Arrow lodge. The new Order of the Arrow Lodge held its first Ordeal the weekend of May 18-20 where the new lodge name, Puvunga Lodge 32, and totem, the porpoise, were chosen.[OA Images Blog "Long Beach Lodge Holds Ordeal; Name & Totem Chosen"](_blank)
/ref> The Lodge was named Puvunga because it was an ancient village and burial site thought to have once been populated by the Tongva
The Tongva ( ) are an Indigenous peoples of California, Indigenous people of California from the Los Angeles Basin and the Channel Islands of California, Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately . In the precolonial era, the peop ...
people, who are the indigenous inhabitants of the region around Los Angeles, California.[OA Puvunga Lodge](_blank)
/ref>
See also
*Scouting in California
Scouting in California has a long history, from the 1910s to the present day, serving thousands of youth in programs related to their environments.
Early history (1910–1950)
In the early days of ″Scouting″ there were several different â ...
*Tahquitz (spirit)
Tahquitz (, sometimes ) is a spirit found in the legends of the Cahuilla, Kumeyaay and Luiseño Native American people of Southern California. Accounts of the legend vary significantly, but most agree that Tahquitz represents evil or death, and h ...
References
{{Scouting in the United States
Boy Scout councils in California
Organizations based in Long Beach, California
1919 establishments in California