Even though you won’t see it on the local news and their sports segments, the biggest game in Choctaw country is Stickball—oftentimes described as the “father of all field sports.” Around before the history of this country was even written, Stickball was a civilized alternative to war, with rival clans battling it out on the game-field, as opposed to the battlefield.
However, when the Choctaws were forcibly moved to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, as time went on, the white man passed laws against most forms of our culture, including Stickball—playing it was actually a legally punishable offense.