The Wailaki Tribe

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Games seem to bring out the joy and fun in the tribe. It also seems to bring people together. Mythologies or myths, also seem to bring people together by storytelling. Two very different concepts but one very similar idea of social connection. Some of the games that were played in the Wailaki tribe are “Tylnla, Kaidlte, and Neitltechat” (26). Tylnla was kind of played like a modern day, guess which hand the coin is in. It was titled the “grass game” (26). Instead of a coin they used “wood” which was “wrapped” in “grass” (26). The game was played with “fifteen to twenty men” (26). They would play in a group id “two” and “stretched” their “hands” out (26). Then they would guess “which hand” and the loser would be considered “killed” (26). Both

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