‘More than a game’: Native lacrosse stages a comeback in NE Minnesota and beyond

‘More than a game’: Native lacrosse stages a comeback in NE Minnesota and beyond

FOND DU LAC RESERVATION — The sound of thwacking sticks echoes in the air on a warm August morning as players pass a hand-stitched leather ball across a ballfield on the reservation of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Players deftly catch the ball in the small basket at the end of their sticks as they sprint up and down the field, flinging the ball at goal posts on either end to score. “This makes me really happy,” says Thomas How…