{"id":44678,"date":"2019-03-15T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/taking-flight-students-encouter-fun-lesson-in-native-games\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:17:17","slug":"taking-flight-students-encouter-fun-lesson-in-native-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/taking-flight-students-encouter-fun-lesson-in-native-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting air on a seal skin blanket: Juneau students learn Iñupiat tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

For Friday’s lunch hour, some Thunder Mountain High School students put down their pencils and picked up a piece of Iñupiat tradition.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Native Youth Olympics coach Kyle Kaayák’w Worl and approximately 50 high school students spent the noon hour “throwing” their peers 10-15 feet above a trampoline-sized seal skin blanket. Grasping loops of rope and bending forward and backward in unison, the five dozen teenagers watched gleefully as they shot their classmates into the air, and in some cases, had to reposition themselves to ensure for a safe landing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t