Lacrosse
Lacrosse or Tewaarathon is an Iroquois game with religious significance, given to the Iroquois by the Creator, in which teams vie to throw a hard wound, deer hair ball that is covered by deerskin and sewn with sinew through a goal. The ball is carried, caught, and thrown in a triangular net pouch at the end of a long-handled stick. Traditionally, players fasted, bathed, and purged themselves before games. It was played during seasonal celebrations and also to augment medicinal power in times of sickness.