DC | Winter Blast: A Family Day of Native Games

Name: DC | Winter Blast: A Family Day of Native Games
Start: 2025-01-25T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-25T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

Schedule

Sat Jan 25 2025 at 10:00 am to 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian | Washington, DC

This family-friendly event celebrates Indigenous games from the Arctic to Argentina. Learn to play Native games from across the hemisphere in celebration of winter.
Join members of the E Ala E Hawaiian Cultural Center to learn how to play traditional games celebrated during Makahiki Season, the ancient Hawaiian New Year festival. Enjoy games like Kōnane (Hawaiian Checkers) and Moa Pahe`e (Dart Sliding).
Julia Garcia (Aymara) and her family will be sharing Bolivian games, such as La Rayuela, a classic playground game playable by one or more participants of any age in which players toss a small object into a pattern on the ground and then hop through the spaces to retrieve it. Garcia will also teach visitors to play El juego del Sapo (The Toad Game), a precision game in which players aim to land a certain number of tejos (discs made of iron, bronze, or steel) into the toad's mouth.
Renée Gokey (Eastern Shawnee, Sac and Fox with Miami descendancy) will share Mahkisina Meehkintiinki (Moccasin Game) played by the Myaamia, and see examples of Myaamia ribbon work used to make the game pieces.
Museum staff will also engage visitors in various string games from across the Western Hemisphere, as well as a craft activity in which participants create a game based off the Penobscot ball and triangle game in the museum's collection to take home.

Where is it happening?

Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, National Msm of the American Indian, Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024, United States,Washington D.C.

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