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Speaker 1: Who's on my team.

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Speaker 2: I'm playing stickball, a Native American ball game that involves

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Speaker 2: one stick or two. The goal was to slam a

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Speaker 2: ball into the opposing team's pole to score. James Walkingstick

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Speaker 2: is the academic Engagement coordinator at the PVD Museum. He says,

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Speaker 2: starting Harvard stickball has been a journey.

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Speaker 3: And beyond that, we've got players here on campus that

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Speaker 3: are students' staff that all played in the World Series,

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Speaker 3: and so this is a way for us to come together.

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Speaker 3: We were all brought here for a reason.

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Speaker 2: Exposing the Northeast to what's played often in Cherokee and

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Speaker 2: Choctaw nations, of which Bailey Brown of Oklahoma shares his expertise.

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Speaker 4: You have centers, defense and offense. Just like any other game.

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Speaker 1: You can score anywhere on the pole. It's usually about

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Speaker 1: eight to ten feet tall.

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Speaker 2: The game was often played to settle disputes over land,

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Speaker 2: and while people would occasionally perish, it was preferred over

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Speaker 2: the mass bloodshed of war.

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Speaker 4: But it kind of helped not wipe out all the tribes.

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Speaker 2: And Gamebridge J. Willette WBZ, Boston's news radio