Editing Choctaw (section)

=== Indigenous games===
[[File:Choctaw Stickball Player, Painted by George Catlin, 1834.jpg|thumb|180px|''Tul-lock-chísh-ko, Drinks the Juice of the Stone, in Ball-player's Dress'', portrait by [[George Catlin]], 1834]]
[[History of lacrosse|Choctaw stickball]], the oldest field sport in North America, was also known as the "little brother of war" because of its roughness and substitution for war.<ref name=choctaw_stickball>{{Cite web| url = http://www.indians.org/articles/choctaw-indians.html| title = Choctaw Indians| access-date = 2 May 2008| year = 2006}}</ref> When disputes arose between Choctaw communities, stickball provided a civil way to settle issues. The stickball games would involve as few as twenty or as many as 300 players. The goal posts could be from a few hundred feet apart to a few miles. Goal posts were sometimes located within each opposing team's village. A [[Jesuit]] priest referenced stickball in 1729, and George Catlin painted the subject. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians continue to practice the sport.

[[Chunkey]] was a game using a disk-shaped stone that was about 1–2&nbsp;inches in length.<ref name="john_reed">{{Cite book |last=Swanton |first=John |title=Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians |publisher=The University of Alabama Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-8173-1109-2 |page=5 |chapter=Choctaw Social and Ceremonial Life |orig-year=1931}}</ref>{{rp|155}}
Players would throw the disk down a {{convert|200|ft|m|adj=on}} corridor so that it could roll past the players at great speed. As the disk rolled down the corridor, players would throw wooden shafts at it. The object of the game was to strike the disk or prevent your opponents from hitting it.<ref name=john_reed/>{{rp|155}}

Other games included using corn, cane, and moccasins.<ref name=john_reed_games>{{Cite book| last = Swanton| first = John Reed| title = Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians| publisher = The University of Alabama Press| pages = 158–160| isbn = 0-8173-1109-2| year = 2001| orig-year = 1931}}</ref> The corn game used five to seven kernels of corn. One side was blackened and the other side white. Players won points based on each color. One point was awarded for the black side and 5–7 points for the white side. There were usually only two players.<ref name=john_reed_games />