User:Vin2513/History of lacrosse

One of the oldest sports in North America, lacrosse changed the way we live our lives forever and spend our time, forever. (last paragraph is added info)
Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by eastern Woodlands Native Americans and by some Plains Indians tribes in what is now the United States of America and Canada. The game was extensively modified by European colonizers to North America to create its current collegiate and professional form. There were hundreds of native men playing a ball game with sticks.

Modern day lacrosse descends from and resembles games played by various Native American communities. These include games called dehontsigwaehs in Oee ("they bump hips"), Tewaaraton in Mohawk language ("little brother of war"), baaga`adowe in Ojibwe ("bump hips") and kabucha in Choctaw.

Pregame rituals were very similar to rituals associated with war. Players would decorate their bodies with paint and charcoal. Players also decorated their sticks or stick racks with objects representing qualities desired in the game. Strict taboos were held on what players could eat before a game, and the medicine man performed rituals to prepare players and their sticks. The night before a game, players wore ceremonial regalia and held a special dance. Sacrifices were held, and sacred expressions were yelled to intimidate opponents.

When you talk about revolutions, mostly you can see them as revolutions that change the way of life. In America, those thirteen little colonies lives changed forever after declaring their independence. And in France everyone's lives changed after that first head was chopped off at the guillotine. The point is, war and direct violent revolution is not the only way to change someones way of life, look at Gandhi for instance. He used his beliefs along with his words an his actions to change the way the people of India live their lives. More recently as well we've hit a technological revolution, everything we do in this day in age is centered around technology. These phones, laptops, computers, A.I., a multitude of advanced technology that is still advancing mind you, that is also changing the way we live our lives.

In the case of this great sport, a sport that started with two sticks and a ball, it changed the way we lived our lives. Adding a new aspect into the daily life of an average person in early North America, being one of the oldest sports, and one that revolutionized our lives. A sport so old that has survived for almost 500 years, a sport that I had the chance to experience in my early years.