real choctaw stickball

[misemaneod]

the oldest sport period... even though its basically practice for war lol

[Mdf5007]

Lacross has nothin on this it's like the flag football compared to rugby it takes more skill n u gotta be tough to play stickball n if nothin else u get respect from the other teams because most are to scared to try it

[tuskachata]

I just want to know who's with me when I say the tribe or ECHO or whoever should put the games on Youtube......

[mistresskasarr]

OR, you can play it's modern version which is Lacrosse and can be almost as violent and dangerous, especially Box lacrosse :)

[CheckLike]

Tewa'a:raton tekajihkwa'eks (HITTING THE STICKS)! MOHAWK version is what the white man turned into LACROSSE... Our tradtional medicine GAME is pretty much the same except we have 2 goals and carry only one bigger stick. Can our people put a team into this tournament? Leave the BITCHASS pads an' helmets at home

[Chata48]

@CheckLike I think Oklahoma is putting together a team this year, so yes you can just contact the Tribal office at 601 650 1530.

[captintanqueray]

this shit is so gangster. best sport on the planet

[TheDiaz382]

i am from the tribe chalktaw and i play this game when i was seven with some other kids of my age

[armii67]

How old must you be

[armii67]

This makes me proud to be choctaw but not 50% i still want to play how old do you have to be

[Chata48]

@armii67 we have youth teams from ten years or to the adult league at 18 on up. there are people in theiir 40's and 50's who are still in good enough shape to still play.

[mjmj6776]

can anyone play this game or is it juss for natives. it looks pretty fun

[Chata48]

@mjmj6776 Yes anyone can play. Just ask but most teams require that you attend practices to assure playing time.

[nashobawolf321]

lol i love watching the games but in mississippi!!! Tho my team "Tucker" always losesT.T

[1916Silver]

Looks pretty rough, have a look at "Hurling" - 'The fastest game played on grass'

[1916Silver]

Looks pretty rough, have a look at "Hurling" - 'The fastest game played on grass'

[steve0281]

A real Man's game!

[bakorocky]

This makes me wanna play! There is no better way to get your aggressions out!

[AOBSHADOWGLASS]

amazing sport this is the first time ive seen it! a real warrior sport! total respect!im from ireland and our ancient sport of hurling is similar! it also in history settled disputes between our ancient tribes! respect to stickball and to the choctaw nation!

[sweetmystique32]

@AOBSHADOWGLASS It was very cool of you to write this. There’s a long history of goodwill among the Irish and the Choctaws as you may know. I’ve never watched hurling before but due to your endorsement I will do that right now. Peace to you and yours.

[Chata48]

@AOBSHADOWGLASS We have a long standing history of respect for our friends in Ireland. During the potato famine we sent food over even though we were the poorest people in Mississippi. Your country returned the favor when we were hit hard by Hurricane Katrina with food and clothes, so i say YAKOKI (Thank You)

[Tekton62]

Istibolli !

[marcnangelu]

dope ass lax players

[underoathgirl154]

i wonder if any of y'all have played against women...we can take men down in a second lol

[sweetmystique32]

@underoathgirl154  lol I love it!

[jroc3915]

ya'll need to play the creeks

[akumie]

white man come and make lackross

gay version

[soni4126]

Seeing this video makes me proud to have Choctaw blood in me. This sport is hard-core.

[UnakaWaholi]

I want to take part in my Native American heritage,but stickball,no,to dangerous.

[TimelessOMO]

Proud registered member of the Houma tribe of Choctaw here.

[maceioninjutsu]

Im signing up under the CDIB My grandfather is 100% Choctaw! Do you know if we recieve money every month from the government?

[sharlene123charlie]

awesome im doing a report on the early chactaw men

[ihavestage4coolness]

I'm 1/16th choctaw and 1/16th souix. My heart is all native. So when I see this I hear silence in heaven. And I love my people. Thank you. and You're welcome. Let's take this wonderful land back.

[khutch6]

Ok, I am SO going to see this!

[YoNaBuTt]

man the game between beaver dam and conehatta was intense this year!! it seemed like the refs were pullin for beaver dam though.

[jasonvtaz]

How does a ref influence a game like this? Looks like a free for all to me.

[Chata48]

Refs can eject players from the game, not count a legitimate score, or even take points away from a team. They can reset the clock by adding or removing time, if the ball goes out of bounds they can move the toss up closer to a goal post or further away. These are just to name a few. So just like in any sport.

[slimthugga34]

i wonder how many of you have CDIBs...

[Chata48]

We are over 9,000 strong with blood lines of each member being over 50%. Yes, with each one of us with Certificates of Degree of Indian Blood.

[slimthugga34]

i was referring to the people commenting.

[Chata48]

No problem. The guy commenting is Tribal too. The footage is old but we still play. The other video I have on here is the last remainiing seconds from last year's championship game in OT.

[SarajevoKyoto]

Played this last spring with my native brothers at the University of Oklahoma. Found out that, if hit hard enough, I bounce. Kinda funny really, but otherwise I'm terrible at playing. Trying to find a team down here in SE OK, if anybody sees this and knows a team or even just somebody to practice with, give me a yell!

[MultiHotpot]

Rock on!!!

[jingonqui]

violent?

[chatahsooner]

lol...... u sound like a wimp. but yeah u can break bones and die even.

[ddrstandard2008]

I saw a guy break his face and arm from this. he's okay now.

[kingofkards91]

I was at the Cherokee Heritage Museum and played a very tame version of stickball. I'm about as Native American as the man on the moon but I've officially found my new favorite sport :) It's a pretty gender biased game though... Even the pros we were playing with said that women win 80% of the time.

[plays4conehatta]

for every new person watching this it is better than any sport out there GO CONEHATTA 21 x's World champions dating bak to the 50's

[cooIbreeze]

I never knew of the sport until now. My grandma was Choctaw. Thanks for the vid.

Love the music.

lol.

[HighHeadJim]

white adapted it into lacrosse

[eahs07]

that music completely ruined the entire video

[Chata48]

I did not like the music either but this was a promo video for the 50th annversary. We had to use canned music because of licensing issues. You know how it is.

[tubevzn]

CORRECTION! The oldest NATIVE AMERICAN sport. We're not from India!!

[Chata48]

You are absolutely correct, I have made the change YAKOKI (Thank you)

[firefighter774]

i used to play stickball alot...and watching this video brings up cool memories...everyone has to try playing it atleast once....if you like playing football?..youll love stickball

[gblanken]

It's a great game. I played on a mostly non-Indian team that is friends with the Conehatta team for a long time. My ten minutes of field time (over ten years, lol!) in the tournament were among the most intense of my life! The athleticism is takes to be a good player is off the charts.

[Byatsat24]

Nothing like the feeling of hitting your friend on the other team

[jimmygene57]

This sport was taught to the choctaw by the french, if you think this film is hardcore imagine my greatgrandfather played it in the 1800's when they actually used rocks instead of balls. people were killed from head injuries commonly then.

[LeroyMorte]

think you got it backwards, the ball game was learned by the french, not taught by them

[joshuab1815]

What the fuck i've never this kind of sport

[bkisaac32]

if connehatta was so good how come bok cito and beaver dam been winning lol

[ndnwa]

Conehatta Community,in Newton County Mississippi, is the best in this sport. if conehatta/Unified and other conehatta warrior, playing for other teams, get togater and combine as one. it would not be fair to other communties...C-town

[choctaw5]

umm.... No.

They have won a lot of championships, but that was back when there were only 2-3 teams.

[NativeAmerican4Life]

That's crazily amazing!

Awesome :)

[1492survivor]

It's REZ ball!!

[Enseni]

Yeah, I've seen images of stickball before. Isn't this what lacrosse was based on?

[littlebear1963]

wow, hard core sports.

[ceomeye]

is this where hockey and football came from? I know where basketball came from. Did the white invaders get the idea of hockey from Indigenous Games.

[RezDuane]

You'll put your eye out!

[firefighter774]

i was watching a game in choctaw, mississippi..there was a guy taken out of the game because his eye was all broken and everything..so..your right...you will put an eye out...

[nagr0m1234]

2:10 Owned

2:47 stickball + teamwork = epic win

oh my god I would love to see that in person.

[boubs91y]

this is the best sport ever i love and will play it one day this is amazing is even better than football

[truthspeaker2000]

wow, that´s pretty tough !

[KIIKAAPOA]

hell yeah its a fun game

[YoNaBuTt]

i'ma cherokee from OK n gotta play wit unified dis year. n beaver dam only beat us by one point too! who knows, maybe unified coulda won it all. lol. guess ders always next year tho. lol.

[blubarri]

these guys are bad ass mother fuckers

[hisarrow]

Hard core, for sure.

[toklo1]

Greatest game ever played.

[Aw3somen1s]

i just started lax this year and i made varsity. my mom says its because im indian.

[54spiritedwill54]

So exciting to watch the playing of stickball!

[curtmug]

UNIFIED STICKBALL!

[dynastysuperfan]

damn them ares ome crazy mother fuckers, i love lax :)

[crookedlettagurl601]

everytime i watch this, i'm remember why my highschool could never beat choctaw central lol...stickball makes hockey look like golf!

like nashoba11891, few of my ancestors were choctaw and i enjoy watching these videos.

[Nashoba11891]

Wow this is cool. I'm only 3/16 Choctaw I think(if my great great grandma was full blooded choctaw then I would be 3/16 right?), but I like to acknowledge all the blood that I possiably have.

Go Choctaws! Yay!

[razgriz1240]

im less choctaw, but as long as i have the blood im happy

[Xalixco]

That is some awesome playing!

[Chata48]

Thanks for watching. This is an old video and was an informational pieace to peak interest locally during our 50th celebration. We still play the game every year.

[ladychoctaw]

Wow, my Chata brothers know their stickball! Great video!

[shsulax]

damn. i play lacrosse and have always known that it evolved from indian games like this. its really cool to see what the original sport was like. Thanks for putting this up!

[standardride]

i am part choctaw and very proud of it now.

[preciousgirlie23]

I am a Choctaw, and I LOVE playing stickball!!! BOK CITO

[Steadno]

Found out the other day my grandfather was half which means I'm 1/8th...Cool!

[daacraig]

I feel somewhat inadequate as a lacrosse player now.....though I still have a longer stick

[dylbollox]

looks a bit like hurling.

[curtmug]

UNIFIED

[curtmug]

UNIFIED!!

[curtmug]

UNIFIED !!!

[n8vedawg]

hey fullofangry y watch it on t.v. when u can come watch it for yourself

[eclipse0170]

wow! after watching this video i feel like a real sissy!

[CurtisSimon]

we play stick ball after certain dances, but in Kickapoo way we use 1 stick instead of 2, and it does get pretty rough

[ladychoctaw]

I love this video is it shows what it means to play a game of stickball! Rocks! Amazing!

[FULLOFANGRY]

It would be amazing if a sports television station picked up this Stickball tournament. I'd love to watch it!

[Brunsgard]

That looks like fun, kinda similar to hurling

[japanime99]

WOW!!! doesnt look that easy.

[sunkawakanska]

this is wicked it was shown very briefly in the last of the mohicans

and beckham thinks he is tuff

great wow

alex

[ladychoctaw]

So exciting to watch the playing of stickball! Wow!

[RiverBirch1967]

OUCH!!

[BOMBORAZZ]

BETTER THAN BOMBING EACH OTHER

[Chata48]

Its funny cause we are all mostly friends during the year but at April when we begin practicing we stop talking to each other unless they are on our team because we know were going to have beat each other up during the game.

[nasiqua]

no goal w/ a cow skull on top? thats how i've always seen it played, and you score by hitting the skull at the top of the pole w/ the ball. but stickball can be fun! we aren't as rough as this tho...

[Chata48]

The way the Choctaws play is pretty intense. There are like 10 teams in this tournament. 60 people on the field at one time (30 vs 30) Although we don't allow other tribes to enter because of liability issues we do allow for them to voluntarily join esisting teams, all they have to do is pick up some sticks and say they want to play, even on the day of the game.

[nasiqua]

well we play for our cerremonies, not for tournaments. we play girls against guys tho, so the guys r SUPPOSED to be nice to the girls, but the girls can get pretty rough.... lol

[ladychoctaw]

Do our Warriors know how to play stickball or what??

WOW, this was riveting!! Thanks for posting it!

[mastercchan]

wow this is amazing sport it needs to be seen thank you for sharing the video god bless

[ladychoctaw]

Wow, do our guys know how to play stickball or not? love this, it is riveting!! Thank you for posting it!

[ladychoctaw]

Yakoke, Yakoke, thank you for posting this video about our Choctaw people, hey, we know stickball!! A tough sport! I love this video!!

[curtmug]

unified succka!

[ayosgi]

EEEEEEE-YA!!! HO-WA! That's what I'm talk'n about.

[tsalaghi]

Wow, now that's an extreme sport!

[hickmanrome]

Bogue Chitto got this!!!! 2007-2008!

[curtmug]

unified succka@