They demonstrated games like the One-Foot and Two-Foot High Kick, the Alaskan High Kick, Scissor Broad Jump, Seal Hop, and the Inuit and Dene Stick Pulls.
Leif Richards is in the 11th grade and an NYO team captain at Thunder Mountain High School. He is doing the One-Foot High Kick on the Santa Clara Pueblo Indian Reservation.
Six members of the Juneau Native Youth Olympic program formed the letters, NYO, while visiting the Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation in New Mexico. Worl says the students were very interested in the stories behind the games and their connection to Arctic survival. Worl says he’s hopeful the sport can take root at Haskell, which has two Alaskan students who can help with the coaching. The team also left behind a kit with equipment that includes a kick stand, a hand-sewn sealskin ball and three types of sticks. Worl says the Calgary games will take place four years from now, which gives new teams plenty of time to train for NYO games.
“To be able to be in a space where your Indigenous identity is represented and honored,” he said, “you feel a sense of belonging —and that you don’t have to shy away from who you are.”
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