Alaska youth celebrate Indigenous culture with Native Youth Olympics

Here we go. The Native E Olympics is a competition of traditional games. Games that our ancestors throughout the Circumpolar N have been playing for millennia. Games that help keep them in shape. They use these games to help them build the skills that they needed to survive every single day, and we play these games today to help preserve our culture. Our heritage and To teach our youth how difficult life used to be and to share our culture with everyone around us who wants to know more about our people. Today, we started off with the Scissor Bra Jump, which is a game where athletes jump off of their feet, take four steps in a particular order, and this symbolizes and demonstrates jumping from ice flow to ice flow to cross a river, or if you’re out on the north on the ocean, ice jumping from ice flow to ice flow. S. The next game we’re doing is the Eskimo Stick Pole, also the called the Inuit Stick Pull. This game demonstrates and builds the skills hunters needed every day for pulling seals out of the water up onto the ice. Athletes sit facing each other and they hold a stick or a dowel that’s 20 inches long and an inch and 1/4 in diameter and they have to pull the stick away from their opponent. Now they have to do this without jerking, twisting, or re gripping. If they fall over they lose. Just like in real life. If you were pulling a seal out of the water and you fell over you would probably lose your seal or you could possibly. Lose yourself.