Google is honoring Native American heritage month with a special doodle depicting the Indigenous game of stickball. Here's the story behind the artist's rendition.
In the Nov. 1 Google Doodle, the G is illustrated as an elder performing a pregame ceremony of smudging — burning a substance like sage or tobacco. One"O" is a medicine wheel, a symbol used by many North American tribes, to"illustrate that we are part of a never ending sacred hoop," said Myles, a member of the Spirit Lake Dakota/Mohegan/Muscogee tribe."It's a healing sport for the whole community," she said.
In the game, players score points when the ball touches their opponent's goal post on either end of a field. But players can't touch the ball with their hands and instead use sticks with a net on the end to pass it closer to the goal. The sticks in the drawing reference the varied styles of stickball played in different regions. Myles said the Great Lake's sticks are about three feet long and have a circular hoop for the net. In the Southeast, on the other hand, the nets are shaped more like an egg, and some in the area even
play a version with two shorter sticks. Lacrosse was derived from the stickball style that's played in what is now known as New England, with a longer stick and oval-shaped hoop.
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