Tipatshimuna 
Description:
Wooden rectangular board with carved handle placed at side consisting of tiny holes drilled (approx. 1″ apart) forming three vertical and three horizontal rows which intersect. Holes joined by carved connecting lines which are traced with blue paint or ink forming 1″ squares, each containing two diagonal lines (i.e. an X). Base of handle has 1 painted blue border, and there is a band of red paint at beginning of handle. Letters K, W, G written at central square.
References:
Bell, R.C. 1969. Board and Table Games from Many Civilizations. London: Oxford University Press. James W. VanStone. 1985. Material Culture of the Davis Inlet and Barren Ground Naskapi: the William Duncan Strong Collection. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana, Anthropology New Series No.7. History Lives.com website (http://www.historylives.com/toysandgames.htm).
Innu Narrative:
“I call it matsheshu ashinakanish (fox game board). That’s how it was made, with little holes in it. I saw those kind many times, but I don’t know how the game goes. I didn’t play that game because I was too cranky.” Uniam Katshinak
“This has little sticks and the board has little holes. Almost like a checkerboard. The game is to try and overcome this one, and to get to the opposite side, but the opposing person will try to stop you from getting to his side. In the end, there is one man standing. I used to know how to make them, this game. It is called matsheshu atshinakan (fox checkers).” Tshishennish Pasteen
Other Info:
Tshishennish Pasteen remembers playing this game. Pending more information on the rules of the game, it appears very similar to the old European game, “Fox and Geese” (see Bell, 1969:76-77). “Peg games such as Solitaire, Fox & Geese, and Nine Men’s Morris were favorites in early American homes and taverns, and continued to be popular throughout the 19th century. Fox & Geese, a peg game in existence as early as the 14th century, was originally played on a 33 hole board. The number of geese pitted against the fox has fluctuated over the years but the roles have remained basically unchanged; the fox, represented by a single peg, has to prevent the geese, represented by all the other pegs, from surrounding him.” (History Lives.com website). The museum board has 39 holes, but Tshishennish said the version he is familiar with had 50 holes.
“Quite a different kind of activity would appear to be represented by a ‘fox and rabbit game’, which consists of a rectangular board divided into squares, each marked in pencil with a cross. Accompanying the board are 22 short wooden pegs and a single long one…Unfortunately Strong does not tell us how the game was played other than to describe it as ‘Indian checkers’ and to note that the short pegs represent rabbits and the long one a fox.” VanStone (1985:35) (The board discussed by VanStone has 33 holes. Peter Armitage note.)