Traditional Games Certification Clinic in - Browning, MT - SPONSORED BY MANPOWER - FOR Employees of Browning Public Schools & BPS Indian Education Dept. 2.5 Days June 14-16,  2010. Registration: Level I & II. Only one level this event. Level II requires previous Level I certification. $250 for participants from agencies outside Browning Public Schools. Some meals included - see schedule below.

Renewal units and college undergraduate and graduate credit available through MSU-Northern for $120.

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Sample Schedule for Traditional Games Clinic
         



Sponsored by: Carol M. White Grant to Browning Public Schools
And the Indian Education Department BPS
Location Browning Napi Elementary School

First Day
Napi School Gym

3:00 Opening and welcome from Browning School District, Traditional Games Society, and members of the Wellness Coalition.

3:30 Introduction to the findings of the last twenty years of research into Montana tribal games.  Opening of Blanket and introduction to the history, culture, and events of the research, resurrection, and restoration of Plains Indian games to Montana tribes.

4:00 – 5:30 p.m. .  Rotation through game stations. Games of skill, chance, and intuition.
In gymnasium: Six stations:  1. Stone passing (observation & intuition)  2. Sticks in Fist (Intuition & probability)   3. Rock in Fist (observation & intuition)  4. Dice Game (chance & observation)   5. Guessing Sticks (estimation)   .

 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.  Working dinner of films, speakers, and discussions of “Indian Ed for All” calendar of seasons.

7:30 Finish time

Second Day - Level I Games
Napi School gym and outside field

8:30 to 10:00 a.m.

Outside gym back door on grass area:  1. Ring the Stick (manual dexterity & hand eye coordination) 2. Make the Stick Jump (Throwing skill for power and short distance accuracy)   3.  Kickball Racing (speed & eye-foot coordination) and Run & Scream (lung capacity & running ability)
Inside the gym: 4. Tie-up (Problem Solving)  5. Stone House (speed, coordination, dexterity, observation in patterns, and imagination)  6. Ring and Pin (manaual dexterity and eye-hand coordination)

10:00 a.m. Break
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10:15 a.m.
Inside in gym   1. Feather Darts (observation, knowledge of feathers, eye-hand coordination)2. Bull Roarer  3. Tops (skill & knowledge of how tops work).
Outside gym back door on grass area  4. Y- arrow game (throwing for accuracy) 
5. Grass Snake (Strength and throwing technique), 6. Hoop & Stake (throwing skill for accuracy).

11:45 – 1:15 Lunch Served:  Team meeting discussions about how games can be used in curriculum and reports to larger group

1:15 p.m.
. (team games)
1.  Doubleball field   2. Shinney field   3. Hoop & Dart Games field 

2:45 p.m.  Break:  Snacks inside

3:00 p.m.   More team games
4.  Atlatl field  5.  Lacrosse field   6. Footbags area.

5:00 p.m.     Dinner in Middle School      Information about summer traditional games events. 

Final Day - Level I
Napi School gym

8:30 - 4:00 Crafting of the equipment for the above listed games.

Books and sources of reference for researching the traditional games will be available.  Review for Certification test, MSU-Northern credit studies, renewal units, culture questions may be answered in library or at crafting tables.  

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  Lunch on site.   Crafting can be done during lunch or participants can take a one hour break.

4:00 p.m. Review for certification test.

4:30 p.m.  Certification test can be written with oral confirmation from instructor, or just written.

Finish at 5:00
Tests and certificates will be mailed the following week.

 
 
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