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  2. Indigenous North American stickball - Wikipedia

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    In Choctaw Stickball, "Opposing teams use handcrafted sticks, or kabocca, and a woven leather ball, or towa. Each team tries to advance the ball down the field to the other team's goalpost using only their sticks, never touching or throwing the ball with their hands. Points are scored when a player hits the opposing team's goalpost with the ...

  3. Native American recreational activities - Wikipedia

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    Stickball was one of the many early sports played by American indigenous people in the early 1700s. Early Native American recreational activities consisted of diverse sporting events, card games, and other innovative forms of entertainment. Most of these games and sporting events were recorded by observations from the early 1700s.

  4. Culture of the Choctaw - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Choctaw Cultural Center in Oklahoma proves vital stop for ...

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    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.

  6. Current Choctaw Princess is ready to pass the torch at 74th ...

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    Thompson was selected as the 2023-2024 Choctaw Indian Princess at age 18 during her senior year of high school, and she is set to pass the crown to a new princess on Wednesday's opening night of ...

  7. Choctaw - Wikipedia

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    Choctaw stickball, the oldest field sport in North America, was also known as the "little brother of war" because of its roughness and substitution for war. [28] When disputes arose between Choctaw communities, stickball provided a civil way to settle issues. The stickball games would involve as few as twenty or as many as 300 players.

  8. History of lacrosse - Wikipedia

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    "Ball players", a hand-colored lithograph by George Catlin Jim Tubby, Mississippi Choctaw, preparing for a stickball game in 1908. [1] Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by eastern Woodlands Native Americans and by some Plains Indians tribes in what is now the United States of America and Canada. The game was extensively modified ...

  9. KY’s Choctaw Academy is a marker of Native American ... - AOL

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    The Choctaw Academy dormitory building in Scott County, Ky., stands Thursday, February 1, 2024. Established in 1825, the academy was the first federally controlled residential/boarding school for ...