Lacrosse, originated by Native Americans, is the oldest known sport in North America. By the 17th century the sport was played by at least 48 tribes in what is now the United States and Canada. Lacrosse served several purposes for Native Americans. Not only was it a recreational game, but...
For entertainment, the Iroquois played sports likelacrosse, a stick and ball game, and in the wintertime a game called snow snake. What did the Iroquois invent? The Iroquois inventedthe Longhouse, which was a sizable, somewhat rectangular building. These structures enabled large families or groups...
Hockey or shinney. Varieties of this were played on both sides of the Sierra, the Yokuts using a ball (see illustration in Culin, fig. 811.) the Paiute using a rag or ball, and both peoples using a kind of primitive shinney or lacrosse stick. Why did the Yokuts burn parts of the...
After dinner I wondered up to my bedroom and sat down at my computer to type this post because writing is cathartic for me. As Leah played with her barbies in the bathtub, I decided to wonder in and touch base one more time just to see how she was feeling. I told her that I have...
Sure, Obama may have motivated whole classrooms full of young, inspired minds with his hopeful expectations when he concluded that “Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future,” but Bush hit the nail on the head when, in LaCrosse, Wisconsin on October 18, ...
2006 lacrosse team, and in particular an off-campus party setting off rape allegations; although the charges there were false, and eventually dropped, the scandal and its residual civil litigation painted a wild, testosterone-drenched portrait of the Duke lacrosse program and several of it ...
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