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Also, today there are rule s for safety no tackling reasons, below the wai st of the bal in order to avo l carrier, id leg and ank le injury. No they prefer to cleats, play bare-fo oted in the sum and wear ligh mertime t running sho es at other times.
the game as well as making the kapuch or stickball a sticks. They have involved children in their playing the Choctaw stic game as wel kball l as instructing oth ers to play making stic and kball sticks and ball.
We play 15 minute qua rters with a half after 2 break at quarters. In My oldest gra the old day ndson, Brenne score was pre s, the final r Billy, is 18 determined years old and or set prior a freshman game. For inst to the at the Univer ance, if the Central Ok sity of y decided the lahoma in Edm would be won game ond, Oklah at 100 points, He continu oma. es to perpet they would for several uate the stic play days or unt game by inco kball il the team rporating it scored 100 points. Eac as an on-cam h striking of activity. He pus the goalpost has played ball equates with the in many stic to 1 point. Ge games in Ok kball nerally, most lahoma and were set at games Mississippi. 20 points. younger gra The Also, in Ch nds ons, Miko, octaw Stickball, the age 9, Trayvia goalposts wer age 10 and n, Logan Billy, e at each end the playing age 5, curren of field and one in age approp tly play team had to riate stickba advance the ll games. ball to the opp onent’s goa defense on l. The the opposin Curtis Billy g team cou grew up in the player with ld tackle Broken Bow , Oklahoma the ball; the with six sibl ings and his refore, it too more skill and parents, Ed k maneuvering Cynthia Bill and y. to Under his lea sco re The same stra a point. dership, Ch tegy applies youth have octaw today. been playing Choctaw stic Broken Bow kball at High School Is your fam , Inter-tribal ily still involv and gam in the es, ed with Ch Labor Day Stickball? Festival, Tus octaw hkahoma, Oklahoma with an exh I have been ibition gam in charge of e on the Capitol Law pre n since 197 senting a stickball exh 7. That sam ibition gam the Choctaws e year, e at the won the title Choctaw Na in a Five Civ tion Labor Da Tribes Tourna ilized y Festival sinc ment. Curtis 1976. I hav e is currently e not missed em ployed with a year. Now, the Choctaw sons, Bryon my two Nation Lan Mahli Billy Department. guage age 37, and He teaches Ch Chilita Billy Jimmy octaw Langua age 31, hav and Culture, e grown up ge and Choctaw playing History at Southeaste rn Oklahom a State Univer sity.
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