Lacrosse is About America

How does an ancient game with sticks tell us about ourselves? The story of how we stole the game from the native people and then stopped them from playing teaches us a deep and abiding lesson about ourselves and our crimes. Thanks to some champions of a cause, native people might play in the Olympics. The wrong can never be righted. But we can learn our history and move in a better direction. Author S.L. Price from Sports Illustrated spent seven years and 350 interviews to write The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse. The question is: Which country?

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Lacrosse is About America is an episode from Conflict of Interest by Kevin Ellis.

This episode is 47:34 long.

This episode was published on May 29, 2025.

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