Stickball: A Traditional Game Known as Little Brother of War
Hermann TrappmanHermann Trappman, Historian and Artist, explains how Chickasaws and other tribes played the ancient game of stickball in order to settle conflicts involving politics or boundary disputes. While the games were highly anticipated (and oftentimes brutal) events, they offered an alternative to the devastation of war.
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