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Choctaw Stickball Sticks. Depending on the tribe playing the game, stickball can be played with one or two wooden sticks made from tree trunks or saplings of hardwood such as hickory. The wood is thinned at one end and bent around and attached to the handle to form a loop that is bound with leather or electrical tape.
Stickball, known as ishtaboli in the Choctaw language, is played with 30 players on the field, each carrying two netted sticks called kabotcha, and a small woven leather ball painted bright orange ...
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Early versions of stickball had very flexible rules and boundaries and would often be played as part of a war between two villages. Players would have sticks with nets at the top and would pass balls to players of the same team. [3] To win, teams would have to throw the ball into a designated goal as many times as they could. [4] "These games ...
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Native American stickball, one of the oldest field sports in the Americas, was also known as the "little brother of war" because of its roughness and substitution for war. When disputes arouse between Choctaw communities, stickball provided a "civilized" way to settle the issue. The earliest reference to stickball was in 1729 by a Jesuit priest.
The entrance of the Choctaw Cultural Center simulates a traditional Choctaw home, or "Chukka," with a central fireplace opening to the heavens in Calera, near Durant, on Nov. 3, 2023.
Native American ball sports, such as lacrosse, stickball, or baggataway, have historically been used to settle disputes, rather than going to war, as a civil way to settle potential conflict. The Choctaw called it isitoboli ("Little Brother of War"); [19] the Onondaga name was dehuntshigwa'es ("men hit a rounded object"). There are three basic ...