Mary Kassi described some games she played as a girl
“We got all kinds, used our own-made games just like those Eskimos, what they’re doing. Just bone, playing like that. That’s what we were doing. And string in our hands, we made all kinds of designs. And we played ball, football. We made moose skin like a ball, a big one. We filled it up with moss and those big ones, we played down that river every night. Oh! We took all the snow off and we played, you know. We played, oh, we had a good time. Sometimes elder girls joined in with us. Even women, elder women, ... [joined] in with us. Oh, we had a good time. And we slide down with toboggans. ... Sometimes we got four or five at a time in the sleigh, we slide down there. All kinds of fun we had. And dance, we went to dances, too. We danced, too, but no boyfriend though. [laughs]
Well, that’s what game I was talking about, eh? That’s all game we had. And we played cards sometimes, you know majure, something like that. Those kind, we used. That’s a lot of fun for us. ... Not all night long, got to go home before day school in the morning.”
(Mary Kassi VG1997-08-04 March 13, 1997, Old Crow, English)