Now what we’ve looked at is that you have to have a married couple in order to score a point. We count that as a married couple counting as one and another married couple is one but we’ve also used it if you get both married couples up you get three points. If you have a male up, like this one over here is red, and you have the blue female up that is nothing; they are not married; they are not together. So it has to be the blue and the red here or a matching color of some sort. Whatever colors they’ve been painted to match, they must show up like that. The blue couple and the red couple over here.

There are other points and scores that you could probably throw in there. For example, one of the things we do sometimes is to have a two in there and that is where there would be a man and two women and in Nez Perce that is called hicqóynise. That means if two men are comrades and they go off to battle and one of them is killed then the one that is alive will come back and take care of the deceased’s wife and children so they’ll have a better chance of surviving through the winter or whatever it is. Men and women are so dependent on each other and I guess that is one interesting cultural bit of information that relates to this game as well.

This is cá’ya nothing. This is cá’ya takes all your points away, absolutely nothing.