From boiling the hickory wood so it can be bent, to cutting and stripping deer hide for strings, shaving the handles, webbing the cups, and playing, this video is a brief synopsis of the annual RSU Stickball workshop. The workshop seeks to teach students and community members how to make these stickball sticks for the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Muscogee (Creek) versions of this traditional game. Some Wild Onions thrown in for good measure!
we are not indians we had names before the white people, we didn't call are selves cherokee that's a name the white people gave us and what about the meherins.
YUNGCHUCK101 2 years ago
You still have more to learn. The Choctaws gave the Cherokees that name when the Choctaw guides were telling the Spaniards who pepple were as they traveled through the South in the 1500s. That got put on maps in Europe, and carried forward... Learn ani-kituwah-gi...
DocFo 2 years ago