Aboriginal Sport

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Aboriginal Sport
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evidence

• Fur traders, missionaries, travelers, conquerors
• Oral histories elders compared to Jesuit
  diaries and fur trade accounts
• View activity in its own context and not
  superimpose your cultural values

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Before Contact

• 10,000 years
• Hundreds of groups across North America with many
  sub groups
• Nomadic settlements

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Games in Traditional Culture

• The traditional way of life traveling to be
  home not to get home
• in order to make a living and survive, people
  traveled on the land and relied on the resources
  that the land provided

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• Survival
• the lifestyle required certain skills and
  attributes, for example, strength and endurance,
  resistance to pain
• Value strength, endurance, skill
• Reinforce these values through cultural
  practices wrestling greeting games, contests

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• Traditional games
• Helped people practice important traditional
  skills
• The games did not require much equipment and
  could be organized quickly
• Gambling games excitement redistribution of
  tools, food, goods among families and visitors

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• Education
• Games and play activities played a role in
  education

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• Gatherings
• When people gathered together and celebrated,
  they shared their games.

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Examples from various cultures

• Wrestling, running, boxing
• Arm pull
• Finger pull
• Ear pull
• Testicle pull
• High kick
• Blanket toss
• Mooseskin ball

• Caribou chase
• Stick pull
• Pole push
• One punch
• Hand game
• Lacrosse
• shinny

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Traditional Games

• Arctic sports
• Dene games
• Video Arctic sports and Dene games

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Summary

• Connection to the land and ways of life
• Survival skills and games to enhance life skills
  strength, speed, endurance, resistance to pain
• Redistribute goods
• Greetings and celebrations
• Spirituality
• Contact and permanent change