American Indian Lacrosse by Thomas Vennum Jr. (1994)

I bought the book because I have always enjoyed the fact that Lacrosse was played for centuries before the Europeans came to America.I have been doing research on the subject for 35 years because I am trying to find the origin of the game.This is a valuable historical account and shows how extensive the game was. The author also discovered many cultural secrets that I have not seen written in other accounts and did a reasonable job of avoiding his own cultural bias.
I purchased a very old lacross stick years ago with unusual markings and carvings on it and I was trying to determine the origin.I felt that the presentation of the stick revealed a strong spiritual presense of the orginal owner and also felt that the game of lacrosse was also spiritual in nature to the tribal people who played it.
I didn'r rate the book higher because I felt the story on Fort Mackinaw was weak and almost a paraphrased fictional account of the real event which was recorded earlier by the British soldier who survived the surprize attack. That account was extremely dramatic.
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Woody
THE MOCASSINMAN