
Okichitaw (Canada)
- Name of sport (game): Okichitaw
- Name in native language: Okichitaw
- Place of practice (continent, state, nation):
Canada
- History:
Traditional martial art from Canada (Cree Indians - Native Americans)
- Description:
Okichitaw is a unique, powerful, practical combat art system that uses basic but aggressive combat movements that were employed specifically throughout Plains Indigenous Warfare. Based on Indigenous Plains combat techniques and tactics, this concurrent version of the combat art embodies the spirit of the Plains Warrior fighting and warfare applications through the utilization with traditional weapons.
All hand, foot and body mechanics are a reflection of specific Plains Cree weaponry and their respective movements. Indigenous weaponry such as tomahawk, lance, gunstock warclub and knife are used in advanced training. - Current status:
Practiced
- Sources of information :
The information contained in the article comes from the following sources:
https://www.okichitaw.com/Source of photos used in this article and gallery:
https://pl.pinterest.com/pin/642114859374516993/ - Gallery: