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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. Common athletic contests held by early American tribes (such as the Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquoian, Sioux ...
Chunkey (also known as chunky, chenco, tchung-kee or the hoop and stick game [ 1]) is a game of Native American origin. It was played by rolling disc-shaped stones across the ground and throwing spears at them in an attempt to land the spear as close to the stopped stone as possible. It originated around 600 CE in the Cahokia region of what is ...
A game of snow snake is played by four teams, called "corners", who compete in trying to throw their wooden "snow snakes" the farthest along a long trough, or track, of snow. The game is divided into rounds, and in a round each team gets four throws. At the end of each round, two points are awarded to the team of the person who made the ...
Any number of people can play the Hand Game, but each team (the "hiding" team and the "guessing" team) must have one pointer on each side. The Hand Game is played with two pairs of 'bones', each pair consisting of one plain and one striped bone. ten sticks are used as counters with some variations using additional count sticks such as extra stick or "kick Stick" won by the starting team.
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 by European settlers to create its current collegiate and ...
Jim Thorpe. James Francis Thorpe ( Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; [ 2] May 22 or 28, [ 3] 1887 – March 28, 1953) [ 4] was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics.
Cherokee marbles is a game similar to rolley hole, [2] an Anglo-American game comprising at least two teams of marble players, although the dimensions are different and rolley hole uses three holes instead of five. [3] Cherokee marbles incorporates elements which are also found in such diverse games as croquet, bocce ball, and billiards.
Native American sportspeople (11 C, 109 P) Pages in category "Native American sports and games" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.