Taka / Toka is a traditional stick and ball game played by women of the Tohono O'odham / Papago and Akimel O'odham peoples of Arizona, USA.

Toka is similar to field Hockey, where players use long curved wooden sticks to drive a small buckskin-covered ball of buffalo hair across a long dirt field.

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The Tohono O’odham are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the USA state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora.

The Akimel O'odham, meaning “river people" are related to the Tohono O'odham.

Both tribes are thought to be descendants of the prehistoric Hohokam people.

Thousands of years ago, Their predecessors, the Hohokam, settled along the Salt, Gila, and Santa Cruz Rivers.