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Bouncing bulldogs reach out to american indian youth

12/19/2014

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Whitney W. 
On a December weekend, a group of Bouncing Bulldogs members traveled to the state of Oklahoma to teach a jump rope workshop for American Indian youth. The youth attending the workshop represented more than 100 Indian tribes from all over the United States. The youth were representative of the following tribes:

 Absentee- Shawnee | Acoma | Ak Chin | Alabama- Coushatta | Alaska Natives | Apache of OK

Arapahoe | Assiniboine and Sioux | Blackfeet | Burns Paiute | Caddo | Cherokee 

Cheyenne Arapaho | Cheyenne River Sioux | Chickasaw | Chippewa -Cree | Choctaw

Citizen Potawatomi | Coeur D’ Alene | Colorado River | Colville | Comanche

Coushatta of  Louisiana | Crow | Delaware | Eastern Shawnee | Eastern Shoshone 

Fort Belknap| Fort McDowell | Fort Mojave | Fort Sill Apache | Gila River | Goshute

Hav Asupai | Ho-Chunk | Hoh | Hopi | Hualapai | Iowa of Oklahoma | Jemez | Jicarilla Apache

Kialegee | Kickapoo of Kansas | Kickapoo of Oklahoma | Kiowa | Klamath | Lac Du Flambeau

Laguna | Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara (MDA) | Menominee | Mecalero Apache | Miami

Minnesota Chippewa | Moapa Paiute | Mohawk of NY | Muscogee (Creek) | Navajo | Nez Perce

Nisqually | Nooksack | Northern Cheyenne | Oglala Sioux | Omaha | Oneida of NY 

Oneida of Wisconsin| Osage | Otoe-Missouria | Ottawa | Passamaquoddy | Pawnee

Ponca of Nebraska | Ponca of OK | Prairie Band Potawatomi | Put Allup | Pyramid Lake Paiute

Red Lake Chippewa | Rosebud Sioux | Sac & Fox of Ka and NB | Sac & Fox of OK

Saginaw Chippewa | Salish and Kootenai  | San Carlos Apache | San Felipe | San Ildefonso

San Juab Southern Paiute | Santa Clara | Santa Ysabel | Santo Domingo | Seminole of Florida

Seminole of Oklahoma | Seneca | Shoshone | Shoshone-Bannock | Sisseton-Wahpeton

Skull Valley Goshute | Sokaogon Chippewa | Southern Ute | Spirit Lake | St.Croix Chippewa

Standing Rock Sioux | Table Mountain | Taos | Te-Moak Shoshone | Tohono o’Odham

Torres--Martinez | Tulalip | United Keetoowah | Upper Sioux | UTE  | Ute Mountain

Warm Springs | White Mountain Apache | Wichita | Winnebago | Yakama | Yankton Sioux

Yavapai-Apache | Zia | Zuni

The Bouncing Bulldogs members taught over 60 youth different styles of jump rope including: Single Rope, Traveler, Two People One Rope, Chinese Wheel, Double Dutch, and Long Ropes.  Many lessons and life skills were exchanged between workshop participants and instructors. Many of the youth were hesitant to jump at the beginning of the workshop, but once they were given a rope, an energetic atmosphere filled the gym as many of them began to take a liking to the sport.  The lesson learned was, “Never say you cannot do something until you try.” From a teaching perspective, we learned how to better adjust our teaching styles in order to successfully engage many different attitudes and personalities.

Our trip to Oklahoma was a great act of community outreach for the Bouncing Bulldogs program because we taught American Indian youth a whole new way to stay physically fit while having fun.  The Bouncing Bulldogs would like to thank the individuals and groups who organized such a special event in Oklahoma, and for showing us hospitality and love.  The trip was fantastic from beginning to end and will never be forgotten.

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seeds 

10/13/2014

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Emmy S. 

Seeds
The number grows each year
Tiny, small, miniscule,
Some cracked around the edges,
others golden
With their smiles, all were chosen
But even the shiniest wasn’t yet dug

They enter the gym shyly, not
Knowing what to expect
Feet too slow, arms too fast – miss
It’s a wonder the floor lays un-
wrecked

But on the other side,
Experienced spring high
Untouched by their web of ropes

Tall and skilled,
Their branches swoop low
Pulling the seeds up
Lifting them to a new height
saying, “you go”

And the seeds have yet to go
With each bounce, surrounding
themselves with the promising moist
dirt
Double under, triple, quad, their
Interest sprouts quickly
As does the Bulldog shirts

With each bounce
An A in the grades
With each bounce
A relationship made
With each bounce
I know the seeds grow trunks and
Leaves and they reach the clouds like
a rocket lifts, 3-2-1
With each bounce
I can see the trees, untouched by
Autumn, they are fully grown now,
helping other seeds
With each bounce
A forest is made

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