The Kansas City Chiefs NFL team was named by Bartle, while he was mayor there, from his nickname as founder of Mic-O-Say.

Bartle combined his experiences in Wyoming with the St. Joseph Council's existing honor organization called Manhawka.

Bartle claimed he was inducted into a local tribe of Arapaho based on a reservation served by the Scout council, and according to traditional Micosay legend, was given the name Lone Bear by the Chief.

Bartle familiarized himself with the rudiments of it, and incorporated them into his central theme of an Indian-like society based on the principles of the Scout Oath.

Bartle was "The Chief", and conducted all the early ceremonies personally, placing a single eagle claw around the neck of each new member and bestowing their Tribal Name upon them.

[citation needed] In late 1928, Bartle became the Scout executive of the Kansas City Area Council.

Their official publications are the Customs and Traditions booklet, Cedar Smoke newsletter, and Inner Circle magazines.

[citation needed] The Boy Scouts of America, and particularly Micosay, have been widely criticized by officials of several Native tribes, anthropologists, journalists, and professors for being a patently offensive cultural appropriation of tribal identity and sacred practices.

[7][8] Robert Prue, a former scout and a professor of social work at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, doubts some of Harold Roe Bartle's historical origin claims, and rejects his claim of having become a tribal member in Wyoming, as being merely the affinity of one tribal member instead of the requisite authority of each entire tribe being depicted.

Critics say that the appropriation continues because the BSA has not yet received widespread public revulsion like professional sports teams have.

That includes the Kansas City Chiefs, named after Bartle's nickname from the founding of Micosay, and which has its own cultural appropriation and racism controversy.

It starts off on the fourth day of camp during the campfire night, when Boy Scouts, chosen by their troops, are inducted into the organization.

They are brought in and explained how these ancestors were forced to survive off of contaminated water and food over the Rookie Mountains.