61 The Iroquois Nationals Team | The History of Lacrosse

Iroquois History and Legends

Andrew James Cotter

Canadian History, Iroquois, History, North American History, First Nations, Religion & Spirituality, American History, Education, Six Nations, Native America, Christianity, Native American, Indian History, Colonial History, Haudenosaunee

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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It is known as the Creator's Game. People in North America have been playing Lacrosse for thousands of years. In modern times high schools and colleges have developed large programs. International competition has been growing as well. Today we are pleased to have several members of the Iroquois Nationals Organization joining the show. Executive Director Leo Nolan (Mohawk Nation), Rex Lyons (Onondaga Nation), David Bray (Seneca Nation), and Pro player Randy Staats (Mohawk Nation).

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Iroquois History and Legends.
0:19.0	Today we're going to be talking about the history of lacrosse and the current status of the Iroquois national team. And today we don't have just one guest. We have a multiple group. I'm just going to let them introduce themselves one by one. If you gentlemen could just give me a brief background on who you are, just a little synopsis on how you're associated with
0:39.0	the Iroquois national team. All right. I'm Rex Lyons. I'm Onondogne Nation. I've been a lacrosse player
0:45.0	as long as I can remember. As soon as I could walk, I had a stick in my hand growing up on
0:49.6	Onondognaation. It's been a big part of my life, my lifestyle. It's lacrosse. And I was on the first
0:57.7	Eurocoy national team in 83 and been in three world tournaments and been with the program ever since.
1:05.2	I'm Leo Nolan. I'm also from Andagga Nation. My mother, Akwasatni Mohawk, so I'm enrolled as
1:10.8	Aquasasati Mohawk Wolf Klan.
1:13.6	I've been involved with the New York Nationals lacrosse in about early 2000s and then came back about a year and a half ago and served as the executive director and a board member and went to SU played at SU and been involved
1:29.3	with lacrosse like Rex all my life and I find a real honor to be part of the organization again
1:34.9	to help with the many challenges that are facing us so we're very pleased to have this opportunity
1:40.5	to give a good historical perspective and a future perspective on where we're
1:44.8	ahead of our expectations are for our communities.
1:47.7	I'm David Bray. I'm from the Seneca Nation. I'm Wolf Klan. I grew up playing lacrosse.
1:53.5	I started off with Newtown lacrosse, went off to college, played at Cornell University on
1:58.8	a couple national championship teams. I was also on the
2:03.8	first Iroquois national team and I've been a lifelong participant with the
2:11.9	Iroquois nationals as a either as a player, executive director, or board member.
2:26.7	And I'm still in it, like Rex said, it's kind of a lifelong journey to have our people be represented in lacrosse, whether it's at the college level, professional level, or international level.
2:33.0	Yeah, I'm Randy Stotz. I'm from Six Nations, Ontario.
2:36.0	I'm a Turtle Clan, Mohawk.
2:40.0	Like these guys are saying, I've started lacrosse when I, you know, I got a stick when I was born.
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