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Ken Bruno (Little Shell) and Whitehorse (Blackfeet) demonstrate and explain traditional children's games from Montana tribes, including the lip-pulling contest, buffalo run, shinny, double ball, ring games, and arrow competitions. The speakers emphasize how these games build character, endurance, and survival skills while maintaining spiritual respect for tribal traditions and harvested materials.

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0:03 Ok, ready to look at some Native American games, traditional games. And we're going to have 10 here. I take this around and show us some of these, some of these games here.
0:26 The one,
0:30 ok, we're gonna do this for the camera, but this is the lip hole. Um, it's also an Alaskan, um, game. The adults, the adults do it and the Children do it. I still see it documented on television nowadays. Were you able to pick that up and
0:52 a lot of endurance and they'll engage in it when they're ready? They will start because it's too much pain to say, wait, wait, go. So if you guys are ready, go ahead and hook it up.
1:05 Uh, it's a lip endurance. Oh, where are you going?
1:12 See the fingers connected into the lip by one side and then they can't even reach over here to do that. I love, I love the
1:26 same. Go for it.
1:33 Go.
1:40 Ok. And the one who can't handle it usually gives up first, but you can see the pain, the pain on the face
1:49 out of way.
1:53 That's a lip.
2:02 I
2:04 got them all too.
2:07 Thomas,
2:11 the Quis, come on Come on. Oh, you already did that. All right. Ok. Don't turn this over to you. The ring kickers, you and the dog on.
2:25 Why don't you just tell us your name while you're, uh, my name's Ken Bruno. I'm Little Shell tribal member from Montana. Um, we came down with 10 of us, uh, four teachers and six students. I have my six students here and we've been partaking in the games down here for a new park bicentennial. And, uh, it's an honor to be here and, uh,
2:47 all the games and stuff and the things that we do, uh, it's with respect to the tribes and the peoples that they came from and, uh, we take, and harvest our equipment, pray over all of our games and stuff prior to the harvesting. So, it's all spiritual way of doing things here. Well, thanks again. And
3:11 I guess we can get somebody sure of some of these other games that we have set up around here. Um, if you guys want to just start, we'll just direct you all the way through our course. Yeah, that'd be great. That would be great. Ok, because I'm the one you understand, kind of close to me and then, and I'll introduce you over here. Let's take a walk, ah, play a game of make the buffalo.
3:36 Well, come back here a second.
3:40 All right, because I got a mic on me just to get your name and think of you say it. So we got it all documented. Oh, Hoki to Napi Punic
3:51 in my language. It says, uh I said hello, greetings. And uh my name is Whitehorse and uh we're here in Illinois. It was corrected on the si was here. It's Illinois. I'm from the Blackfeet reservation. I'm with a delegation from Montana. There's 10 of us. So we're all kind of inner tribal. We're here to deliver uh children's traditional game.
4:15 And uh like I said, uh our games are made out of willow on a rock, birds, buckskin, many other things. And these games are to develop a child's characteristic and through this characteristic and as an overseer, as a mocker or an elder, I look through these characteristics in these Children and I
4:39 try to develop those characteristics through their play. And uh today we're here to demonstrate those games to the people that are here on the grounds here. We came in on Thursday and uh today, probably this afternoon we'll be flying back to Montana. And uh it was a real kind of adventure since we've been out here because most of us,
5:01 few of our students that have never even been on a plane. And uh I, I guess it was uh well, we got lost a few times and uh we've been trying to see some of the uh culture within the area and it's been pretty hard, but uh it's really been a really enjoyable time since we've been here. And uh right now, we're just asking the kids to play this one game,
5:24 make the Buffalo run in this game. It's, it's before we even had the horse and the horse. When we acquired the horse in the 17 fifties, we uh acquired it from the Chone from Idaho. The black feet, acquired the uh gun from the crease in Canada. And before that, we use the bow and arrow, the lance.
5:48 And uh right now we're trying to revive these games. And uh like I say, the games bring out characteristics and a lot of our kids are starting to arise to this. And uh the games consist of field games, individual games. And uh I have to say this uh
6:11 in Montana, we, we have uh it's a kind of a universal game. Uh The Salish Koo play a game called Shinny and the Blackfeet play the game Shinny, but the techniques are, are different but similar. And it's uh it's a game of strength and it's to develop the kid. It's supposed to toughen them up, uh toughen them up and getting preparation.
6:36 And right now I wanna go ahead and demonstrate this game and make the Buffalo run and the game starts. Uh before we acquired the horse, we used the Buffalo jumps and we used these uh kins of rocks and they were in like a bee and it was a child. This child was called a Buffalo runner because uh sometimes this child
7:00 became a martyr because the buffalo ran out of like probably 40 miles an hour and probably overcame this kid. But there was a point at the uh at the end of the buffalo jump in which a child would jump in this hole or under the eve of this cliff. And the buffalo would stampede. And as soon as we had enough uh kill of the buffalo, we divert the
7:23 uh the uh the herd at an angle of a vert to another side of the cliff. But at the bottom of the cliff, some of these buffalo would go over and a lot of them were not killed. And what they did is they kept them inside this Kraal called it the shun. And they would come in with their lances and finish the kill.
7:42 But the buffalo meat uh was a very uh important animal in our uh lifestyle. It provided tools, the, the large coverings, uh the meat and uh a lot of other aspects said that I have to think about and like I say,
8:01 this game, I'd like to demonstrate it. And what it is is that a child will take a marker and uh they use one breath and it was very important that the child would wave their hand
8:15 and only that scream as loud as they can. And in doing so as the mocker or the referee where the judge I'd have to listen to this. And as soon as they ran out of breath, they set their mark on the, on the ground to signify it. Then a child would be challenged and say I can beat that marker. So at this time, I'd like to go ahead and, uh, demonstrate that. Would that be?
8:39 All right? That'd be great. Thank you. All right. I need some, uh, challengers. I want some challengers. I'm gonna make the Buffalo run.
8:53 All right. You ready? I want some action from you. Now, I wanna hear your voice. I wanna see some, some motion and you'll start tomorrow. All right. At this time you ready? Make the Buffalo run.
9:24 Work it.
9:26 True.
9:29 Challenger.
9:32 All right. Don't let him get away with that. I know you can do this. All right. You ready?
9:40 Ready? Make the Buffalo room
9:45 right there right there.
9:52 Now this uh is a game of stamina endurance.
9:58 All right, ready that make the Buffalo run.
10:12 Yeah,
10:14 you set the mark. Did you set the mark?
10:19 He did. Challenger. Challenger step up. Challenger.
10:33 You make me say it. All right. You see how she does.
10:39 I see some kids large, small and I always seem to see those kids that talk in school go the furthest.
10:53 Oh, you ready? Good. Make the Buffalo, right. Yeah.
11:02 Right.
11:04 Oh He still has to work. Challenger.
11:10 Challenger
11:12 any more? Chills.
11:16 I got a marker here, young man. I wanna see y'all.
11:21 You got that stamina. Can you do this one breath? One breath and I want to see some action. I gonna scare those Buffalo
11:33 Challenger. Challenger, bring it in, bring it in.
11:41 I'm laughing.
11:45 Let's go. Let's go.
11:52 That's OK. Just go.
11:56 Who is the winner?
12:03 Winner?
12:04 I give recognition to this young man and his uh performance and his endurance and stamina. And why to do this is I'm gonna recognize him right now.
12:14 The reason I do that it brings attention to him. He did real good,
12:21 not just one of the games that we play and we try to bring this, this our culture back. And it's very important at this time and place and our time on our reservation and a lot of rap and a lot of a mad stuff coming in and we have students coming in with uh gang is and it doesn't belong in our tribe and we're trying to develop this, this character again and revive it like our language.
12:48 Well, how about a few of your other games, White Horse before you guys have to depart on us today? Well, we have a few games called Shinny and uh like I say, I play Blackfeet style and my sticks run from anywhere from 2 ft to 2.5. The reason they're so short is that I want the young people to use their body. And then these kind of games are just strengthen and toughen up our kids
13:11 and uh to get pushed or shoved. Uh You just kind of shake it off and get back into the game, but it's to toughen them up for something more, more probably in the future that may be or to enhance their people. But these are some of the games I have another one called double ball and that I have over here on the table.
13:36 Can I show you that? Let's take a look.
13:43 This is what we call double ball sticks and they're just willow sticks. And I painted them red and black. And to play this, you carry the, the double ball up like this. If you get it too far, it slides. If it gets too low, it'll slide off right now. Uh We'll go ahead and demonstrate this. So you George, do you wanna play? Let's play,
14:07 we'll play, uh, kind of like keep away. This isn't the uh original game that we usually play with. What do you call a goal posts? And the goal posts are just similar to what we look like in football, two ends like, so when you put them in a V like that to the V to go over, that's one point. But to wrap it around, that's two points.
14:29 And uh this uh game has no boundaries in it as it has as many players that have sticks that can play this. This is I, I kind of improvised because young Children, I, I use this as a buckskin bag with sand and horse hair in it. The originals are raw hide with rocks in them. And these go a lot further and, uh,
14:52 so I kind of improvised for the little ones at this time and we'll just play a game of, uh, keep away. Huh? Well, red against black. All right. And to play this
15:04 to play this, well, just there's, you can't use your hands. No feet stick only and you can flick it out. Good one. George throw me overhead.
15:21 You don't.
15:24 Whoa. So there's two ways of picking this up
15:31 when it's on the ground. You just come like that and you go to the outside, you may use your body try to take the ball away from me.
15:39 That's how they check me and take the ball away from me. Then it goes on. Go ahead, boys demonstrate this.
15:49 Oh, I need a black out there.
15:53 Get a block, read back, read back
16:04 what the boys are doing right now. They're just playing a game of keep away. You can either flick the double ball out or do it overhand.
16:18 This is a plane engines, uh game.
16:28 Um
16:31 Let's go back.
16:35 Oh,
16:42 I usually go with two basic colors, just red and black. It's easy to tell when you talk about the goal post about how high would you generally make the ball? I usually go about high level. I say 6 6 ft about how long I would say 6 ft there. Too wide. Great.
17:02 Oh, have the tree
17:07 here here. Here. Oh, thank you.
17:15 Thank you.
17:25 George is out of the chute. The game is played like tribes and uh to start the game, maybe I can demonstrate that how it actually starts. I'm just tired. I need two chiefs,
17:40 two chiefs. Good young man. I want you cross your sticks. That's a block. Your chief.
17:49 Red, get behind your chief.
17:53 We start the game
17:56 because your sticks and what you'll do is I'll throw this like so, and it's up to them to get it back to their people. The red would go this way and the black would go this way and see if you can flick it back to your people. My people to start the game, you start in the middle of the field. We have our two tribal leaders and there are people right behind them to play it
18:20 to flick it back to your people and you go forward,
18:23 uh, BB A,
18:31 ah,
18:34 that's great. They kind of impro players on that, uh, Shinny, uh, goals.
18:43 And again, you called the Shinny, oh, this is double ball ball. I'll show you shinny. Now. Bring it in.
18:52 What be like, how do you this?
18:55 All right. Grab a shinny stick boys. These are shinny sticks and they're real crude. And I want to impress upon the people that they're very easy to, uh, make and, uh, different tribes have different styles, but we'll play Black Beed style. Blacky style is that you have 22 hands on the stick and you stay low and I'll get a shitty ball right here.
19:19 This is what you call a shinny ball, buck skin fills in it and we try to put horse hair and so forth in it. What I do is that, uh, to, uh, to play some offense and defense. And for example, if I had the ball here, I'll try to skin this young man out and it's a lot of bumping and pushing to get it. The thing is you are to sweep it.
19:45 It's not like go, it's not like go but just to sweep it and see if I can eat it.
19:54 Bye. Why? All right, let's play a short game. We have some goals here. Red on this side. Black on this side,
20:07 right? Well, I'm gonna ask, I have three commands here. I'm gonna say come up here, George right here.
20:16 I have an even start here. What I'm gonna do is I say she need one. I want you to have two hands on your stick and stay low. It's very important that you have two hands on the stick. Chinny two, you don't move Chinney three. I will throw the ball over there. I can throw it here. It depends on where I want to throw it at this time. Keep your sticks low, two hands on the stick at all times.
20:42 All right, remember, you may use your body, you may use your body to block out. You're ready. You need one,
20:52 Jenny two chin three play
20:57 that it, keep it right down. Keep the sh on the ground. Lose your body, no feet, no feet. There's no bone in this game. There's no way, there's no way in this game. Ok.
21:16 Go
21:20 no feet. George,
21:24 come on, buddy. You and this guy,
21:29 this game could be played on a field as 10 miles to 100 yards. But we just kind of play 100 yards since we have football fields. Makes a lot of sense to pee Yes,
21:44 better make it a day tomorrow.
21:47 This is a game to make you tough getting position on a ball
21:54 score. All right. Back in the middle.
22:01 One more. One more.
22:05 Did you always tell me that?
22:07 This? Really tell Miss Templer? All right. You guys ready? J won.
22:16 Can you do
22:19 J sir?
22:22 Ok.
22:25 White work position.
22:30 Yeah.
22:33 Ok.
22:35 Oh,
22:40 hey.
22:42 Oh no. Winners right here. Winners, winners right here.
22:51 I wanna give recognition to you. You guys are the champs
22:56 Shinny. I wanna give recognition.
23:00 What I did is I bring attention to him just like I give to all my winners. Usually II, I carry a staff and at this time when I'm on the plane, I was unable to bring some of my goals, even my staff that I use. So at this time, you boys take a breather. You guys played the good game, but I'll show you another game. That's very universal in our um Plains Indians here.
23:28 Ok. George plays a good game. Wow,
23:35 this is what we call a ringing stick. And uh this game is very universal. I've seen uh
23:45 the Spanish people in Mexico, they play with a, what do you call a cup with a ball? I've seen the uh Koreans play it similar with a, like a stick, but it's on a smaller scale. This game is to help the child develop his focus or her focus. But also
24:10 patience to play this black feet. We played a style of 35 or seven. So we play a small short game. You ready?
24:23 You've been practicing? All right. This is how you lay it flat on the ground. I don't want you out here because it'll come at you like so, but if it's behind, it will take off on you. So when you play it flat, keep that little toque on the screen and to pop it up, you know that one?
24:44 Oh, I'm nipping it right.
24:48 Uh 00 no, it's your turn.
24:59 Ok.
25:04 Hey.
25:06 Yeah. Ah,
25:10 very good. You played the game? Well, well, thank you. I'll show you one more if you have time. Is that possible?
25:19 Yeah,
25:23 for travel, you would say
25:28 this is what we call a wheel and dart. It's made out of willow, paint, personalized it a little bit. These leather is your handle and this plays on the little bit more. Put it a little because these willows kind of dry, uh get dry and this is kind of used as weight. The feather is used as a streamer in the dynamics that it takes.
25:51 It's real strange how it plays on the dart. All I'll do is I'll roll this. Uh what do you call it wheel? It was usually played with the rod. And I said that's the boundary of the rock. He says, oh, this, where is the rock? And it's up to the boys to use two different techniques either kneeling like so or standing up like so
26:14 boys would you line up for me?
26:22 It showing it? All right,
26:25 George, you wanna help me? Yeah.
26:31 All right. Show me your technique. Boys represents a rabbit. Small creature might be a time when you're really in dire of the food and you were able to uh provide for yourself or somebody in your family or your family. Got this car ready.
26:54 Oh It's
26:56 oh,
26:59 this is mine. Look at that
27:02 one more time. We're better ready.
27:09 All right, you guys are playing the good game. Try to guard it, make sure it sticks. If it happens, it goes all the way through like so there was no point given.
27:21 Oh All right.
27:25 All right.
27:27 No,
27:32 no. Right in front of you. You know, it's an
27:40 that.
27:45 All right.
27:47 Sure. Go now, I'm not
27:54 that noise. I like that. That's a good character. Not scared. Very good.
28:07 I have some other darts over there. Hang on. Come on.
28:14 Oh,
28:17 all right. All right. We ready. Ready. Ready. Here we go.
28:23 Oh, no, no good. It didn't stick. I'm sorry.
28:32 All right, I'm gonna slow this down. This is our 33 legged rabbit. It's a little bit slower
28:40 rabbit, three legged rabbit. All, it's played a good game. How about a turtle? All right. Three legged turtle?
28:54 Oh,
28:58 all right. One more time.
29:02 Come on.
29:07 Come on. Two rabbit there. Charge Ron, you're gonna have to get back up. Make it fair. I got a lame rabbit. Are you ready? Here we go.
29:17 Ah,
29:20 he was a four legged rabbit. I was, well, my colleagues have a lot of other games that they uh can show. Probably show you. We're ready. Thank you. Thank you, white horse. Thank you. I'm glad you played the good game. Go over here and join Ken here for a couple of minutes. I'm in,
29:41 in Alaska, in tribe played a game called Spirit of Whale. What we do is uh we tie a bone. They usually use a seal or whale bone. They hung it from a tree about waist high.
29:58 This particular phone, we numbered it 12 points to one side at one point. Having a smaller two point with two. The object of this game is to take your spear and put it through the ring that's in the bone first to do so. Wins in some cases. Or else it's done on a point scale. We'll just do it first.
30:22 The game is offense and defense and for dexterity, it learns you to, um, be better at uh spear or whatever you have. Um the defensive strategy, you don't want your opponent to get their spear to the bone hole. And at the same time being defense, you ain't gonna get to win the game unless you're offensively played. So these guys will go ahead and start first.
30:47 You take and measure your spear from your bone and you do not move your, you stay that far from it. You don't come any closer and I will start this game. You guys ready. Here we go,
31:02 a defensive playing going on over there on that side. There's a hang up. Take advantage of it. Take advantage of it. Take it, get the point there with free defense offense. Oh, no one's gonna win. If they keep grabbing a stick, the object is to get the spear in the barn and you can see
31:26 try this. It's a little harder than it looks utilizing. Uh, the tree bound is kind of
31:35 bring it on out here.
31:38 Take advantage of her. Oh, you can't move. Take it off her. Yeah. Uh Just call offense. You guys just offense. Let's hear it all out.
31:49 Oh
31:51 If you try it, you'll find out it's a little more tactic and a little more skill than uh what you can imagine.
32:02 They do have different size targets. This is another one that they use. This is a triangle. Some of these are made of wood, some of them are made of bark.
32:13 That's the spear, the whale Alaskan uh in Indian Drive. And we do do these games out of respect for the people and their traditions. Um And everything is uh prayed open before harvesting and everything. So starting to appear in the spiritual way and it's done a couple of ways.
32:35 First, we will do the ring toss and then we'll do the arrows. Uh You can see we have children's bows here. Um These are used for target practice. A lot of the natives, the Mandan tribe, Indians, they actually shot arrows up into the air and see how many they can get up in the airborne before the first one strikes back to earth. Um They've been known to do eight arrows the first
32:59 before the first one is around. So it's a, it's a real challenge. Um, a lot of them shoot arrows up in the air and catch it when it comes back down. The further up you shoot it and if you catch it the more better you were and it's a big coordinating thing. Um What you see in here is that, uh, the young bucks are demonstrating what happened to your rings.
33:22 That's ring toss over there is your arrow. You know that Carros
33:29 who's a,
33:32 oh,
33:34 the is messed up today. Too much. Good food. At the bicentennial ha
33:43 great challenge.
33:46 This is arrow casting. Um Target being a stick with a fork top. The object of this game is to cast your arrow from a certain marked spot and have the arrow mount the stick as such. You get no points unless it is touching the stick. There's two targets set up and we'll have a actual demonstration here.
34:13 We, it's a lot of steel,
34:18 different natives have different styles of uh arrow games. Uh Hopi and Manden and the pas um played a lot of this arrow fletching and we got a winner over there.
34:34 Good perfection. Another arrow game is who can throw the arrow. The furthest another game we played, it is marked with the screaming yell stick. Here you go. What you do is you keep the good old strong arrow, good strong arrow
34:56 here in the cold.
35:00 The object of this game is to throw your arrow as far as you possibly can and then you mark it where it stops with your uh your uh stick, which wasn't a very good throw.
35:14 Too much food for uh fuck today. And his uh his partner should outdo him
35:23 very easily done. Good job and I preparing and making their arrows.
35:30 But you, um this game is done. Uh I need one for, let me see that one.
35:38 Um This clutching stick. This would be a regular arrow. However, we modified this for games. This part of it is called the clutching the feathered part, the object of this game, the first player cast the arrow out and then the second player cast where the last arrow went, trying to put the fletching across the arrow.
36:03 The third arrow
36:06 would be shot towards the last arrow shot. If this was laid there, then they'd be no good and he'd throw his arrow and if he could cover it, he'd get all the arrows. And a lot of times there'd be 2030 arrows down there. And then that guy would win a lot of arrows. So we'll actually watch this demonstration before, before it,
36:28 whatever.
36:30 Usually 10 tw, 1012 ft a distance. And you can see it looks easy. But when you tempt it, it's a lot harder. Notice the distance. Now, they, they're teasing each other. Somebody's gonna all, there's a win. So he gets all of the arrows
36:49 and he's got very few, but he still has one. As long as you got one, you gotta keep going. And that's the art of fletching.
37:02 Another game we use tossing is ring toss and we'll take that field next. You ready for ring toss?
37:12 Ok? A lot of tribes play toss and green. Um, it's similar today's, uh, horseshoes and we'll go hit that field next.
37:24 However, we do have a bow and arrow target here. So can you whip out your ball here and take a shot at this while you're here?
37:33 The object of this game and arrows were marked at different distances. They've been, they were hung from trees as you see here with, uh, various different targets. Different Indians. A lot of natives use colored, competes to signify their, uh, their colors of their nation.
37:52 We don't have big arrows because we built them for, uh, the Children to play with. Does that go through the small ring or the big ring
38:01 and points are like, uh, this would be a bull's eye and this would be a point along with our ground arrows where if you arrow or a spear chucking, you could actually go this and have a spear mo through it. But that's a little arrow thing that we also do.
38:20 Ok. Ring time. The next game we have here is ring toss. Um, we do use a couple of variations of rings. My other one's gone
38:33 object to this and let's use that phone is to cast your ring and get it around your state. Um This is either done by the first two rings and the distance marked, it would be a lot harder. Yeah, there you go. Ok. And go ahead and start casting your arrows or your wreaths.
38:57 Here you go. Using these too.
39:03 Hi. If that's g, all right. Try these rings. Oh, he's good.
39:13 This is ring toss. Uh, depending on the age of people, you can move them closer or if they're very skilled, you can move them further apart. There is another way to play this besides using a stick indoors we take, and we can throw a loop within a loop. That's another way of doing it, which is just as indoor. It's easier for indoors. Or if you've got ground that you can't put a stake
39:38 here. Ok. Good job. And, uh, if you want, I can tearing my shop down over there, we could hit that table and kind of walk through that stuff. Well, let's do that can. And then we'll let you guys get going because I know you guys have to pack up and hit the trail here. You wanna pack it up, please use string. If you need to tie your stuff together.
40:06 This is your bag
40:09 and walk round to the front stomach. You need w what you want.
40:18 He's got signs, I don't know. See here, uh, we set up a display of, uh, native American, uh, games and stuff. Um, we got a lot of different variations of hand games. I picked this up on the Missouri River in Montana there below, uh, Rainbow Dam. I figured a little child would use it as a toy knife. So I just kind of kept that as kind of my own little fries. Today's toy knife.
40:44 Today's dice. Native American dice. These were two points each. So that would be, uh, 24 points and then once you get them all, it'd be six points. They don't have a four point or a six point. Unless it's 44 of a kind is four points. Uh two of a kind is two points. If you got three, it wouldn't count for some reason.
41:08 This is a game of memory. An elder would stand behind a child and a child would visually see this the distance between the rocks the way in the direction that the paintings on the rock were faced. And it was done through timing. They take these and memorize them, they gather them up, take them to an area and put them back down and
41:30 put them exactly the same way they memory of them. Then the nail would come over and check if it was off a little bit. You disqualified. The closest you can get to being memorized. If it was a memory game, we have different dice games that we utilize variations there. Regular old stick game. Um, these, they use these cooked bones and they'd hide them.
41:54 You'd have to guess where the red one was or the plain one and be hidden. You know, and if there's shaking going on, there's a black beat children's game that got a lot of stick games. We have actual stick game tapes from uh different tribes in Montana. Another game we're probably all familiar with is uh done with stones. It's hide to rock. Do you remember when he was young? Just to guess what hand it was in
42:21 very simple game to remember. Some of our balls are made of buckskin a lot of times inside the buckskin, we had corn tusk. We'd wrap it and tied it and make it as round as possible and wrap it in buckskin while we took the shavings off. Our stick, shaved it off, collected it and we put it together in a ball and then we twine it up and then we cover it with buck ski.
42:45 So that was another variation in the hand hand games. OK? Um This shuttle cock which we didn't get to play um is done with one person or five people. It's uh make an Indian tribe. The object is I can bounce this six times. Um This is a shuttlecock
43:07 and this is a battle door. It's now a version of ping pong. So where the game kind of originated from shuttlecock. Um And it just came out of the Naked Indians, out of Washington. And again, I say all these games and stuff we do introduce with respect to the people and their um I'd make a challenge. I could hit this 10 times in a and then someone would challenge to beat it.
43:32 So then they'd come and partake. That's just a game of shuttlecock. He did bring the stick. This is a boy's toy. It's called, bro. You, you uh native tribes in the country use it. You can hear the wind how
43:50 when young boys would get together, you get 1020 by making this noise and it was very exciting. But it was a way for the young Children to have something to do besides fish and high.
44:01 Another game is buzz. I take a ring here. I took in a piece of beef jerky, which I had to um
44:12 utilize because I didn't have a flat piece of wood from my last go around. But again, you just wind it up
44:20 when the F just was
44:23 and you wind it up tight, you'll feel it tighten on your fingers and then you pull it apart and it gets a buzz feel to it. Um You could use a larger,
44:35 um,
44:37 utilize because I didn't have a flat piece of wood from my last go around. But again, you just wind it up
44:45 when the F was,
44:48 you wind it up tight, you'll feel it tighten on your fingers and then you pull it apart and it gets a buzz feel to it. Um You could use a larger, a lot of people use bones and stuff. Um, bark can be used and beef jerky can be used no doubt. And another variation of that particular one,
45:09 uh Zuni use corn darts. These are targets that we use kind of like our darts today. They had a bull's eye and you got points scored. The different colors of beads could have been representing different points and the colors of beads represents tribes as this one here and it could be different point sets and a bull's eye,
45:29 the paiute had feather darts and targets. Do you see the variations? They were also mounted on arrows entirely the whole arrow. So, and then, then again, the tusk, the corn and then these were again, used for our balls and stuff.
45:50 Um, a variety of equipment we use were made of, uh, a lot of different type materials. The bow and arrow. You've seen a demonstration of that. Um, this one's been through the mill again. They're painted up and different tribes have different paintings on them. These are our running scream sticks as you've seen with the bull run. These are also good marking sticks. I went ahead and I'm using,
46:13 um, driftwood now. Then you can see it's a better art. It's smooth and it's less splinters and stuff. And these are our counters for a variation of games. Instead of just getting one point, you'd use these a certain amount of them to use. I tell you, we kept the count, count games. This was a fletching game as you would call. Ok. Um,
46:38 this is a racket, I believe he introduced racket to you earlier. Um, in the early 17 hundreds, the Ottawa Indians in Michigan, uh, played this game. The Chippewas used two rackets when they play it, um, in the early 17 hundreds, in, on a port in Michigan, the Ottawa Indians were playing a game of this. There were 3040 of them to start the game
47:02 after a few minutes. There was 100 of them. After a half hour, there were 3, 400 of them. Once there was enough of them playing the game and the soldiers of the port just watching this innocent game, the natives attacked them that particular year. They took nine ports in one year. So it wasn't only a game. It was like a war tactic. So a
47:25 lot of history in the rackets, then you see ring the pin again, two variations with the steak and then the ring. This is also made out of willow. I made these last year and you can see it still got green to it, but they are dry now.
47:43 Ok? And then again, our shiny sticks just to let you know here a Montana Indian tribe, the little shell, except in this blanket for our traditional games that we play uh with our people. This was brought to us from the um uh confederated Salish and Kootenai tribe who received it from the Black Feet people,
48:07 I believe who received it from a tribe from Canada.
48:11 We pay a lot of respect to this
48:14 blanket and uh the game pieces when we get done in 2005, I believe we will hand this blanket over to the next tribe and we will add a game piece to it. And this will go to the country, who knows how long, hopefully, um, when my child is older and stuff, it will come back around and she can actually show
48:39 and my beautiful daughter Latina Bruno's Bay Falls. She goes to Bay Falls High. Um I'm a real proud father of her. She has a presidential award for our achievements and stuff. 2000 from Bill Clinton who was a great president and she makes me very proud and I'm glad she's traveling with him. I have my other clad over here
49:03 like to introduce a chick. She is a resident of the Rocky Boy Agency and uh she goes, she is homeschooled in Great Falls. And uh I'm glad to have her down here in Illinois, sharing this experience with us and she brings a great deal of stuff with us. We have here, the three black feet boys who are Great Falls school,
49:28 4545 black feet right here right there, there's five black feet. These boys are uh Great Falls School with us. They are part of our Indian club. Um Over there we've got Dale, we got David.
49:46 Hello and Ring. Um We're proud to have them along with us. They've been working and helping us with our schools for quite a while. They do get involved with us and they were chosen to be here because of their involvement with the games and they're wanting to be a part of it. Very proud for this individual right here. All of us,
50:07 very proud of him and his son who's been a great access to this travel. Glad to have you with us too. Also. Not,
50:17 not but la not last but not least we, we have the um a guy from Belknap reservation in Montana Ghost Ventura
50:30 go on. Um He brings his games along with us and uh his experience and stuff. He's been probably with us the longest of all of us and we're very proud to be working with him and I'm learning from him also with all our projects And uh we appreciate you coming down and uh taking the opportunity to let us show you and present us
50:52 what we brought here from Montana and our research and stuff. Well, thanks Ken and uh we appreciate everything. I hope, I hope.