PART II.
GAMES INDIAN GAMES INTRODUCTION .-- All the games here presented have been played in our land for untold generations, while traces of the articles used for them have been found in the oldest remains on this continent.

According to Dr.
Stewart Culin, the well-known authority on Indian and other games, "There is no evidence that these games were imported into America at any time either before or after the conquest.

On the other hand they appear to be the direct and natural outgrowth of aboriginal institutions in America." Dr.Culin calls attention to the reference to games in the myths of the various tribes.

Among those of the Pueblo people mention is made of the divine Twins who live in the east and the west, rule the day and the night, the Summer and the Winter, "Always contending they are the original patrons of play and their games are the games now played by men." (Bureau of American Ethnology, Vol.

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