Native American Stickball

Native American Stickball (Cherokee anetsa, Choctaw kabocha toli) is the pre-contact ancestor of modern lacrosse, played across the American Southeast by Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole peoples. Games are played with a small deerskin ball and two short woven-net sticks per player (unlike the single stick of lacrosse). Historical matches could involve hundreds of players on a field kilometres long — 'the little brother of war'. Modern Choctaw and Cherokee tribal games continue as living tradition and cultural sport.