Snow snake is an Indigenous winter sport traditionally played by numerous tribes in the Great Lakes region in the United States and Canada, including the Ojibwe, Sioux, Wyandotte, Oneida and other Haudenosaunee people.

[1] Other tribes traditionally used native North American hardwoods, such as maple, oak, apple, hickory, and juneberry.

[3] Many players customize their snow snakes by decorating them with colorful designs or adding minor modifications, such as waxing the wooden surface.

[1] The trough, or track, that snow snakes are thrown down is typically five inches deep, rising up in a slope at the end where the players stand.

[1] According to the Iroquois oral tradition, the game of snow snake dates back more than 500 years, to before the arrival of Europeans in North America.