The Otena Lodge was thus born out of the Kunieh Tribe and was chartered on May 24, 1945. Application for a charter was made by the Comanche Trail Council on May 1, 1945 by the Council Executive Board. E. J. Miller was President of the Council, Henry Wilson, Chairman of the Camping Committee and Guy N. Quirl was Scout Executive. The first Lodge Chief was Connie Mack Hood of Breckenridge. Connie Mack Hood was in high school at the time he had the honor of being lodge chief. He said, "I suspect this honor came because I was on the 'Bull Gang' at Camp Billy Gibbons, one of the bigger Scouts there, and a member of the Breckenridge Buckaroos football team," when he was contacted in the summer of 1994. He went on to say, "I truly believe that my experience (in) Scouting had a great deal to do with whatever success I have had in life."

The first members of the lodge, of course, were all the current members of the Kunieh Tribe. The Lodge was given the number 295 as it was the 295th Lodge to be chartered by the Order of the Arrow. The members soon named their new Lodge "Otena Lodge."

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