Games
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Sports helped the men to develop skills needed for hunting and fighting ,
both individual games such as canoeing , wrestling, horce racing , archery competitions,
running races , spear throwing and team games like arctic kickball, lacrosse or stick ball.
Lacrosse was a fast and violent game , with players often being hurt or even killed while playing .
Some tribes called this sport "the little brother of war".
Spectators at these games would make bets of skins , furs , weapons and trinkets
while chanting and cheering the players on .
Games of chance or gambling were favoured by many native Americans ,
these types of games were many and varied including the use of cards made from rawhide
onto which bold designs were painted , or dice made from bones and beaver teeth ,
the dice would have images of animals such as lizards ,spiders and turtles carved into them .
Other less complex games of chance were favoured as well ,
tossing nut shells and guessing which way up they would fall into a bowl ,
guessing which hand hid a carved bone or which moccasin contained a pebble name just a few
keeping all feathers on the plate .
If a feather flys off the plate they must stop pick up the feather ,
do a mock indian dance and continue .
Plates and feathers are then passed to the next Joey Scout in line .
Have the first group form a large circle facing toward the centre
and then kneel down on all fours . These are the horses.
The 2nd group then choose a mount and stand straddling their horse
(must stand over and not sit on their horse , for safety reasons) .
Leader will call one of two commands "HORSES" or "HUNTERS" .
If "HORSES" is called the horse backs out from under it's rider to run
in a clockwise direction around the whole circle and back under the hunters legs.
If "HUNTERS" is called , the hunter dismounts and runs
in an anticlockwise direction around the outside of the circle .
Give the Joey Scouts opportunity to be both horse and hunter.
the ball becomes the spear and the leaders are the hunters.
the headband is placed directly in front of this Joey Scout .
All other Joey Scouts sit in a large circle around the blindfolded indian.
Leader selects certain Joey Scouts from the outer circle to try to sneak up
on the blindfolded Indian and claim the headband without being noticed.
Repeat until everyone has had a turn .
Secretly one Joey Scout has been chosen to set the dance step ,
which they can change at anytime, the other Joey Scouts follow the dance
without drawing attention to the JS who is making the changes .
The Chief must try to guess who is responsible .
You can limit the amount of guesses to ensure the game flows better.
pre cut leg holes in the bottom of each box .
On a signal they run with their canoe to the end of the hall and back again
passing the canoe onto the next pair.
This game would be fun to do as an obstacle course ,
having to manouver around objects, bob under suspended rope ,
rock hop across imagined shallow waters etc.
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