Data and information on this game was only derived in the late nineteenth century, and most of the information gathered only told of the rules and regulations, information on the equipment, team size, etc. Only a couple of authors wrote about strategies, stick handling, and complex rituals performed for the game. So with this lack of information, the true history of the sport will forever remain dormant. Other speculators tried to tie the history of lacrosse with other games played in Meso-America.

Throughout tribe histories, there are many games that were played to settle disputes over land instead of war, so peacefully they could resort a conclusion. Lacrosse was taken as a serious type of ceremony, so much to the point where special conjurers and ceremonialists would prepare the equipment and the field for play. One time, two opposing tribes played a game for some land and the losing tribe declared war on the winning tribe, so the peaceful game of lacrosse was played for nothing, seeing as the other tribe wanted war anyways.

erent types of equipment used by the three different regional tribes. The three tribes are the southeastern, Great Lakes, and Iroquoian. In the southeastern tribes, they used dual sticks, usually around two and a half feet long, and they both had the same netting at the end of the stick. In the Great Lakes, they used a single three-foot stick, which was crudely morphed into its shape, either by carving or scorching. In the Iroquoian tribes, they used sticks usually more than 3 feet long, which would define it as the longest sticks used out of all the tribes.

The name was derived from the word “crosse”, meaning any games played with a crude stick. Around the nineteenth century, some English people adopted the game and began to play league competitions, the type that was adopted was the Iroquoian tribe’s.

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