Indigenous North American stickball is a team sport typically played on an open field where teams of players with two sticks each attempt to control and shoot a ball at the opposing team's goal. It sh
Stickball tournament on the Kullihoma Grounds
Jim Tubby, Mississippi Choctaw, preparing for a stickball game in 1908.
Stickball match at Cherokee National Holiday, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 2007
Exhibit at the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on the Big Cypress Reservation in Florida
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The Cherokee or Tsalagi people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their ancestral homelands, liv
Indigenous North American stickball
…the ball with their hands. Points are scored when a player hits the opposing team's goalpost with the ball." Several Native American tribes such as the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, Seminole and Yuchi play the sport. Tribe elders organized games of stickball to settle disputes nonviolently. The game…
Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee syllabary, as painted by Henry Inman, c. 1830
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After the Anglo-Cherokee War, bitterness remained between the two groups. In 1765, Henry Timberlake took three Cherokee chiefs to London meet the Crown and help strengthen the newly declared peace.
Portrait of Major John Norton (Mohawk chief) as Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen by Mather Brown, ca. 1805. Yale Center for British Art (his father was a Cherokee while John Norton adopted by the Mohawks)