Native American Lacrosse Teams Reported Racial Abuse. Then Their League Expelled Them.
by Curtis Waltman from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3KXF4)
Lacrosse was played by Native American nations across North America long before it was colonized by Europeans. But despite Native people's historical and cultural connection to the game, they were periodically banned from playing before the 1973 American Indian Religious Freedom Act restored Native peoples' right to"