Lacrosse. Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick. It is is a contact sport which requires padding, except in the women's version. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh designed to catch and hold the lacrosse ball. Offensively, the objective of the game is to score by shooting the ball into an opponent's goal, using the lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and pass the ball to do so. Defensively, the objective is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to gain the ball through the use of stick checking and body contact or positioning.
History[edit] Lacrosse, today a relatively popular team sport in North America, may have developed as early as AD 1100 among indigenous peoples on the continent.[1][2] By the seventeenth century, it was well-established. Ball-play of the Choctaw — ball up by George Catlin, circa 1846–1850 Box lacrosse[edit] Types of play[edit] Field lacrosse[edit]
Coyote in mythology. Coyote canoeing, in a traditional story. Coyote is a mythological character common to many Native American cultures, based on the coyote (Canis latrans) animal. This character is usually male and is generally anthropomorphic although he may have some coyote-like physical features such as fur, pointed ears, yellow eyes, a tail and claws.
The myths and legends which include Coyote vary widely from culture to culture. Coyote shares many traits with the mythological figure Raven. By culture[edit] The coyote (Canis latrans), the animal on which the myths are based Coyote is a figure in the following cultural areas of the Americas, as commonly defined by ethnographers: California[edit] Great Plains[edit] Coyote is seen in the cultural heritage of these people of the Great Plains area: the Crow mythology (Crow Nation), the Ho-Chunk mythology (Ho-Chunk, Winnebago), and the Menominee. Plateau[edit] Southwest[edit] Functional cognates[edit] Coyote in the modern world[edit] References[edit]
Native American Language Net: Preserving and promoting indigenous American Indian languages. Native American Home Pages - Nations. Tribal Connections in the Pacific Northwest - connecting American Indian/Alaska Native Communities to Health Resources on the Internet. Added 10/7/99ALGONQUIAN If you are looking for information on the "Algonquian Indians", you can stop right now. "Algonquian" is not the name of a Native tribe or nation; it is a language family, like "romance" or "indo-european". There are no "Algonquian Indians"; but there are Algonquin Indians in Canada. There are dozens of North American Nations that speak Algonquian languages all across the United States and Canada, but the languages and their speakers are as different from each other as French and Spanish and Italian are.
Tarahumara. "Tarahumara" redirects here. For the film Tarahumara (Cada vez más lejos), see Always Further On. The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a Native American people of northwestern Mexico who are renowned for their long-distance running ability.[1][2] In their language, the term rarámuri refers specifically to the men, women are referred to as mukí (individually) and as omugí or igómale (collectively). Current estimates put the population of the Rarámuri in 2006 at between 50,000 and 70,000 people. Most still practice a traditional lifestyle, inhabiting natural shelters such as caves or cliff overhangs, as well as small cabins of wood or stone. Staple crops are corn and beans; however, many of the Rarámuri still practice transhumance, raising cattle, sheep, and goats. Almost all Rarámuri migrate in some form or another in the course of the year.
The Tarahumara language belongs to the Uto-Aztecan family. History[edit] From then on, the Tarahumara split into two groups. Threats[edit] Deforestation[edit]