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.
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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