Minnesotans play ‘the Creator’s game’ at the roots of modern lacrosse
By Jon Collins/MPR News On an unseasonably cold and windy Sunday morning, dozens of players cluster together at the center of the football field at Hamline University. Each player, ranging from elementary school kids to the parents of high schoolers, is carrying a wooden stick that’s bent into a small net at the end. One […]
MN to send lacrosse teams to North American Indigenous Games
By Art Coulson For the first time in 25 years, Minnesota will send a lacrosse team to compete in the North American Indigenous Games next year in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The last time a Minnesota lacrosse team played in the Indigenous Games was in 1995 when the Games were held in Blaine. The 2020 North […]
Red Lake language camp rebuilds Ojibwe traditions
By John Enger/MPR News All Photos by Monika Lawrence/MPR News The Red Lake Band of Chippewa held its sixth annual Ojibwe Language camp in late July. Kids from all across the reservation gathered in the remote backwoods of Ponemah to learn about plant medicines, and language and traditional native lacrosse. Or at least, to try […]