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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 summer and wear ligh time t running sho es at other times.
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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 others to pla making stic y 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 lahoma in Edm dec ided the gam would be won ond, Oklah e 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 rpo rating it as scored 100 points. Eac an on-campus h striking of activity. He 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. you The nge r Also, in Ch grandsons, octaw Stickball, the Miko, age 9, goalposts wer Trayvian, age 10 and Logan Billy, e at each end the playing age 5, curren of field and one in age tly play app team had to ropriate stic advance the kball games. ball to the opp onent’s goa defense on l. The the opposin Curtis Billy g tea grew up in m could tac the player with Broken Bow kle , Oklahoma the ball; the with six sibl ings and his refore, it too more skill and parents, Ed k maneuvering Cynthia Bill and y. Under his to score a poi The same stra leadership, nt. tegy applies youth have Choctaw today. been playing Choctaw stic Broken Bow kball at Hig h School, Inte Is your fam r-tribal gam ily still involv and in the Lab es, ed with Ch or Day Festiva Stickball? octaw l, Tushkahom Oklahoma a, with an I have been exhibition gam in charge of e on the Capitol Law presenting n since 197 stickball exh a 7. Tha t same year, ibition gam the Choctaws 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 employed with a year. Now, the Ch sons, Bryon octaw Nation my two Mahli Billy Department. Language age 37, and He teaches Chilita Billy Jimmy Choctaw Lan age 31, hav and Culture, guage e grown up and Choctaw playing History at Southeaste rn Oklahom a State Univer sity.
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