The Indigeneity Lab will welcome Dr. Sharity Bassett, assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and associate director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, on Monday, Nov. 11, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the AMU Lunda Room. She will discuss her new book, “Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: making meaning through rematriation.”
RSVP online. This event is free and open to the public.
Since the 1970s, lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition. Lacrosse is also known as the medicine game, as it is part of a medicine ceremony named in creation narratives and the Great Law of Peace that binds the six nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
The number of Haudenosaunee women and girls playing the sport has burgeoned since the 1980s. This book roots lacrosse as a Haudenosaunee sport both within and outside of these communities.
