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Hard Truths: The Iroquois' fight for the Olympics

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Lacrosse - The First Story

In the iroquois tradition, elders place miniature lacrostics in a new born crib to lyo. Lacross is so much a part of thompson and his culture that he doesn't der it a sport. The first story lyle ever heard about lacross is the story that's told across the six nations of the hodnoshone territory. There's a common story about the game being played between the land animals and the sky animals. Nobody wants to bat on their team because he's blind and they're playing the game during the day. They're sort of all these judgments. And the moral of the story is that you never judge anybody. You never judge

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