1000 year old Sport explained by an Archaeologist [youtube video 10m06s] #sport #chunkey #PoleAndHoop #archaeology #Cahokia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0Dy2K38aw

The Life and Death of Sweet Medicine is a Cheyenne tale of the great prophet and law-giver Sweet Medicine who received the sacred Four Arrows, structure of government, and rules of society from Maheo, the Wise One Above, and predicted the coming of the horse, the white man, and the loss of the buffalo and the people’s land. #History #Chunkey #Cheyenne #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2355/the-life-and-death-of-sweet-medicine/

The Girl Who Was the Ring is a Pawnee legend committed to writing by the anthropologist George Bird Grinnell (l. 1849-1938) in his work The Punishment of the Stingy and Other Indian Stories (1901). #History #Pawnee #Chunkey #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2349/the-girl-who-was-the-ring/

Chunkey (tchung-kee) is a Native American game involving a rolling disc (or ring) and two teams of players who score by throwing their sticks to land as close to the disc as possible. #History #Chunkey #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/Chunkey/