"Chunkey"
 

"Chunkey," an Indigenous American sport ("one of the most popular sports in [Indigenous] North America," Graeber and Wengrow note
 
"a complex and highly co-ordinated affair in which running players tried to throw poles as close as possible to a rolling wheel or ball without actually touching it"
 
however, it is also a lesson in the rise of social hierarchies--"the game became increasingly monopolized by an exclusive elite," more of a "spectator sport" (at least in the region of Cahokia, today the Mississippi floodplain, where the game originated)

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

> tagged with #indigenous_peoples, #sports, #game

> created July 7, 2026 at 11:02:27 AM


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