Great Lakes Field Service Council - Order of The Arrow - Noquet Lodge 29

Noquet Lodge 29

The council is served by the Noquet Lodge 29. The word Noquet means Bear Claw in the Ojibwa language. The lodge uses Bears and Bear Claws as symbols on its insignia. Noquet Lodge performs service to all Great Lakes Council Camps, hosts fellowship activities, promotes camping among council Boy Scout Troops and Cub Scout Packs, and attends regional and national Order of the Arrow events.

Noquet Lodge is divided into administrative areas called chapters. There are eight chapters, each corresponding to one of the council’s eight districts. Chapters coordinate their own service and fellowship activities, as well as train teams which conduct the membership induction process.

Like all Order of the Arrow programs, the Noquet Lodge is has youth leaders who are advised by appointed adults. The six lodge officers (Chief, Executive Vice‐Chief, Vice‐Chief of Administration, Vice‐Chief of Activities, Treasurer, and Lodge Secretary) are elected annually. The lodge’s work is performed by committees which have youth chairmen and adult advisers.

A volunteer Lodge Adviser is appointed by the Scout Executive. The lodge adviser appoints other adults to serve as advisers to specific lodge officers and committees. The Scout Executive also appoints a member of the professional staff to serve a Staff Adviser to the lodge.

When the Great Lakes Council formed in November 2009 through the merger of the Clinton Valley and Detroit Area Council, each council had an Order of the Arrow Lodge. Those two lodges, Chippewa Lodge 29 and Migisi Opawgan Lodge 162, continued to operate while members of both lodges set up the structure for the Noquet Lodge. The Noquet Lodge became the council’s Order of the Arrow Lodge in May 2011.