The 1st World Indigenous Games
October 26, 2015 9:59 AM   Subscribe

Sandwiched between Brazil’s hosting of the 2014 soccer World Cup and the Olympic Games next summer in Rio de Janeiro, the Indigenous Games are being advertised as a low-budget, low-key alternative to the marketing-hyped and TV-driven sports culture of the 21st century.
posted by Tom-B (6 comments total) 7 users marked this as a favorite
 


This is really the first? I could have sworn I'd heard of this before, from a native Alaskan (I think it was) who was demonstrating this really cool Alaskan sport of jumping super duper high.
posted by gusandrews at 10:55 AM on October 26, 2015


Ah, it appears Al Jazeera is illustrating this with an image of Maori haka. I do so enjoy a good haka. %-P
posted by gusandrews at 10:58 AM on October 26, 2015


(Or I'm being culturally insensitive, and there are other groups who intimidate by sticking out their tongues.)
posted by gusandrews at 10:59 AM on October 26, 2015


Other Pacific Island nations also perform haka,yes. That image looks Maori to me, but I wouldn't definitively say it is. There's certainly a Maori group at the games.
posted by Pink Frost at 12:29 PM on October 26, 2015


Of course it's low-budget and low-key, they'd never give big money and publicity to anything indigenous.
posted by HypotheticalWoman at 9:48 PM on October 26, 2015


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