On Saturday, hundreds came out to watch as the Choctaw Nation held its fourth annual Peh Toli Youth Stickball ...

Indigenous peoples have been playing stickball for hundreds of years, and every summer since 1975, teams have competed in Mississippi to become champion of perhaps the oldest game in North America.

NEW YORK -- It's nearly noon on the last Sunday in May, and Pedro Eliza walks hurriedly toward a parked black Mercedes SUV in which his friend, Eddie Espada, sits with a baggie of unused syringes.

The 2025 Golden Stickball Bat Award recipients were honored at a recent ceremony ahead of the 21st annual tournament on ...

Bare-chested, partly painted blue and wearing feathers in his long hair, the stuntman was told to portray a Cherokee athlete playing stickball against the Choctaw. Sixkiller knew what he was doing ...

On the first day of Native American Heritage Month, the Saint Paul-based Indigenous artist Marlena Myles reimagined the Google logo to honor the North American Indigenous game of stickball.

Pearl River's Kanyon Jimmie sprints with the "towa," or ball, while pursed by teammates and a Koni Hata defender during the Men's Division of the World Series of Stickball title game, hosted by the ...

The event officially starts at 10 a.m., with an adult game starting off. After that, there will be a youth social game, ...

Jul 6, 2024 Jul 6, 2024 Updated Jan 8, 2025 0 A Cherokee Nation language teacher and athlete says he wants stickball to be the gateway for young Native people to get immersed in their culture.

"Stickball" or "Ishtaboli" as it's known to members of the Choctaw Nation is a game that dates back to time immemorial. Tribal historians say it's at least 300 years old, since the beginning of ...

Hoss Villa, Bobby Burkes, Brian Larney and Eli J. Hickman vie for the ball at the stickball club DFW Kabutcha Toli's practice on Sunday, May 1, 2022 in Oak Cliff's Kiest Park. The U.S. government ...