Believing is Seeing: No DS? How could you survive?

No, the Native Americans and the early settlers DID NOT have a DS, a Wii, or a laptop to go play Club Penguin! Can you believe that?
Just kidding. These kids are too smart, and weren't that surprised at all to discover this and, as we compared and contrasted cultures and how we play, they actually connected games we still use that may have started as Native American/Pioneer games. Because like one girl explained, when I acted shocked that they didn't think Pioneer and Native American children played Nintendo, "Duh, Miss Rogers! They didn't have that kind of TECHNOLOGY, or even ELECTRICITY back then!!! So they had to use other stuff like rocks and sticks." How could I have not thought of that?
Here are some of the things they thought of that could have been invented long ago:

Tag

Hide and Seek

Dramatic play

(War, House, School, Hunting games)

Jump rope

Hop Scotch

Checkers or Chess

Races

Wrestling

Ball games

(Did you know LaCrosse was actually a game invented by tribes of the

Iroquois Confederacy, and was a pre war game)

Figurines made of sticks, wood, bone, clay, etc

(like toy soldiers or wrestlers)

Dolls

Jump rope

Stick pulling

Leap frog

Marbles

YoYo

We made some Inuit ( not Eskimo) dolls (they would really have been made of leather and fur sewn together) and some simple games like many Native American children might have played hundreds of years ago.

A. Rogers Apr. 2011

One little girl got pretty creative and glued the small picture that showed how to put it together in the child's arms like a doll or a baby. Then several other kids liked it and copied her.