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LA Times: Imagine inventing a sport and then being shunned by it. That’s the Haudenosaunee story

August 27, 2020 by Onondaga Nation

Iroquois Lacrosse Team

Los Angeles Times
by David Wharton

Before all the haggling, the ugly words and political machinations, there was a happier story.

The way the Haudenosaunee people tell it, the animals of the forest gathered for a great ballgame. The powerful bear and swift deer led one team; on the other side stood the hawk, eagle and owl.

Just before the start, a mouse and squirrel approached the birds, asking to join in. It seems they had been rejected by the larger four-legged animals because of their size. The birds welcomed them.

This ancestral tale serves as a metaphor for the Haudenosaunee, a confederacy of Native American communities scattered across the Northeast, and the sometimes uneasy relationship they have with the sport they invented.

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