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Lacrosse at the Onondaga Nation Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 April 2010 09:41
by Brad Powless

I am a lacrosse player. I live on the Onondaga Nation. It seems as though the two are synonymous here.

Like all the families at Onondaga, my family plays lacrosse too. As the spring snows melted, the fields next to the Longhouse were almost ready. There would be a game soon to give thanks to the special game that the Creator gave to us, Dehoñtjihgwa’es.
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Lacrosse: This is our game Print E-mail
Friday, 16 February 2007 09:56
Central New Yorkers have fallen in love an adopted a sport played by Native Americans before there were Europeans on this continent. Once smitten, they have been under its spell ever since. We asked various people to help us understand why lacrosse has become so much a part of the local fabric.
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More Than a Game. Lacrosse at the Onondaga Nation connects the current generation with its ancestors. Print E-mail
Sunday, 01 December 2002 09:59

Lacrosse Magazine - Tom Rock

There is a legend. It comes from deep in the green mountains of New York State. It comes from a time when the Iroquois culture dominated the landscape like the highways and Wal-Marts that are there now. It comes from a sense of fairness, a nod of honor, and above all, it comes from a love of lacrosse.
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