Pacific Northwest Native Lacrosse, 1602 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Tacoma, WA (2026)

09/09/2026

CREATOR’S COMMUNITY GAME : ROUND TWO. 🥍

We’re gathering again for our second Creator’s Community Game on Sunday, September 20 from 4–6 PM at Jefferson Park in Tacoma. We moved the hours earlier so we can make the most of the daylight.

Our first gathering reminded us what this is really about: Native and non-Native relatives, kids and adults, experienced players and people picking up a stick for the first time, all coming together through Creator’s Game.

This time, we’re adding another piece: a Community Gift Game.

Bring a small gift to place on the community blanket. Throughout the game, we’ll recognize good medicine on the field — goals, great passes, hustle, generosity, encouragement, good moments and taking care of one another. When we see it, that person may be invited to choose a gift from the blanket.

The point isn’t who scores the most or who wins. It’s practicing generosity, gratitude and playing for one another.

🥍 Free + all ages
🥍 Native + non-Native community welcome
🥍 No equipment or experience necessary
🎁 Bring a gift for the Community Gift Game
📍 We’ll meet in the middle of Jefferson Park

Come play. Come learn. Come gather.

Sign up at the link in our bio or just show up.

09/07/2026

THERE IS NO LACROSSE WITHOUT THE HAUDENOSAUNEE.

We have said it before and we’ll keep saying it.

That isn’t just a statement. It is the history of this game.

Across Turtle Island, many Native Nations have their own stick-and-ball games, each carrying their own histories, teachings and relationships to Creator. We honor those games and the Nations who continue to carry them.

And when we talk specifically about the development of the modern sport of lacrosse, the Haudenosaunee are foundational to that story.

George Beers, often called the “father of modern lacrosse,” did not invent lacrosse. He codified and altered an Indigenous game that already existed, establishing rules around players, equipment and gameplay that helped shape the modern sport we recognize today.

That distinction matters.

Because every time we pick up a stick, step onto a field or celebrate how far this sport has grown, we are participating in something that existed long before the modern game.

This past weekend in Minneapolis, we carried that message throughout the Premier Lacrosse League Quarterfinals.

We gave away these shirts, made new friends and had conversations with players, families and fans about the history of the game and why Haudenosaunee inclusion at LA28 Olympic & Paralympic Games matters.

Lacrosse is returning to the Olympic stage in 2028. More than a century after its last appearance as a medal sport, the world will once again gather to play this game.

We don’t speak for the Haudenosaunee. We stand beside them as Indigenous relatives, lacrosse people and people who believe the origins and history of this game matter to its past and future.

The game will be there. The Haudenosaunee should be too.

There is no lacrosse without the Haudenosaunee.

09/06/2026

A Day at Six Nations. 🥍

For anyone who loves lacrosse, there are places that help you understand the game differently. Six Nations of the Grand River is one of those places.

Last week, our friend Kevin Sandy spent the day showing us around this Haudenosaunee community and helping us experience Six Nations through a lacrosse lens.

We drove through Ohsweken, or Oswé:ge’, visited Irocrafts, spent time along the Grand River, toured the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena and Chiefs locker room, and stopped at Ga***rd Powless Arena.

One of the most meaningful stops was the workshop of Bo Henhawk and his family, traditional Haudenosaunee stick makers. We teach with wood sticks and I play with one, but standing where they are actually made, surrounded by hickory in every stage of becoming a lacrosse stick, brought everything home differently.

What stayed with me most was simply being there. Seeing how naturally the Creator’s Game exists within a community that has carried it for generations.

At PNW NATIVE LACROSSE, we talk often about our responsibility to Respect the Roots. Days like this remind us those roots aren’t history.

They are people. They are places. They are knowledge. They are alive.

Nyá:wen Kevin and Bo for sharing your time and knowledge with us and making this a day we won’t forget.

There is no lacrosse without the Haudenosaunee.

09/06/2026

A Day at Six Nations. 🥍

For anyone who loves lacrosse, there are places that help you understand the game differently. Six Nations of the Grand River is one of those places.

Last week, our friend Kevin Sandy spent the day showing us around this Haudenosaunee community and helping us experience Six Nations through a lacrosse lens.

We drove through Oswé:ge’, visited Irocrafts, spent time along the Grand River, toured the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena and Six Nations Chiefs locker room, and stopped at Ga***rd Powless Arena.

One of the most meaningful stops was the workshop of Bo Henhawk and his family, traditional Haudenosaunee stick makers. We teach with wood sticks and I play with one, but standing where they are actually made, surrounded by hickory in every stage of becoming a lacrosse stick, brought everything home differently.

What stayed with me most was simply being there. Seeing how naturally the Creator’s Game exists within a community that has carried it for generations.

At PNW NATIVE LACROSSE, we talk often about our responsibility to Respect the Roots. Days like this remind us those roots aren’t history.

They are people. They are places. They are knowledge. They are alive.

Nyá:wen Kevin and Bo for sharing your time and knowledge with us and making this a day we won’t forget.

There is no lacrosse without the Haudenosaunee.

09/02/2026

Lacrosse Makes Friends. 🥍

When we first started our relationship with the Premier Lacrosse League through our friends at PLL Assists , we had no idea just how much that relationship would grow into community.

What started as a partnership has become friendships. People we genuinely care about, people we’re excited to see, people we learn from and people we get to share our mutual love of this game with.

This past weekend we were back in Minneapolis for the Premier Lacrosse League Quarterfinals, and in so many ways it felt like a family reunion. We caught up with old friends, made new ones, watched youth connect with people throughout the game and were reminded again of one of the greatest gifts lacrosse gives us is friendships.

There is something special about the culture that has been built around the PLL. We’re incredibly grateful to have a small place within that community and to continue bringing Native youth and families into these spaces.

Thank you to every friend who stopped to say hello, shared a story, played some lacrosse, took a photo, gave a hug or simply spent a few minutes with us.

And especially, thank you to PLL Assists for continuing to open doors, build relationships and make moments like these possible.

The game brings us together. The relationships are what we carry home. 🧡

09/01/2026

There are some places in this game that remind you just how much you still have to learn.

I had the honor of spending the day in the Haudenosaunee community of the Six Nations of the Grand River with our friend Kevin Sandy. Kevin showed me around the community and eventually brought me to the workshop of Bo Henhawk and his family, traditional Haudenosaunee lacrosse stick makers.

I’ve been around lacrosse most of my life. At PNW Native Lax, we teach with wood sticks. I play with a wood stick. We talk constantly about honoring the Indigenous roots of this game. But there is something entirely different about standing in a workshop surrounded by sticks in every stage of becoming and watching the knowledge, patience and work that goes into bringing one to life.

These sticks don’t just appear in our hands. There are people, families, knowledge and generations behind them.

For someone who has spent so much of his life around lacrosse, being in this space felt both like a culmination and a beginning. A reminder that the deeper we go into this work, the greater our responsibility is to listen, learn, build relationships and make sure the Native roots of this game are never separated from the game itself.

Spending this time with Kevin and Bo will forever be one of my favorite and most grounding memories in lacrosse.

Deeply grateful for the time, knowledge and hospitality shared with me. I’ll carry it with me every time I pick up a stick and every time we share this game with another young person.

There is no lacrosse without the Haudenosaunee. 🥍

08/31/2026

Women’s lacrosse has always been full of incredible athletes, leaders and stories, but this moment feels different.

The Women’s Lacrosse League is giving the women’s game a bigger stage, creating new heroes for young players to look up to and showing girls everywhere that there is a place for them to keep growing in this game at the highest level.

We got to see that impact firsthand in Duluth, Minnesota at the girls lacrosse clinic hosted by PLL Assists .

Four incredible professional women’s lacrosse players, all fresh off competing for the first-ever Women’s Lacrosse League Championship with the California Palms and Maryland Charm , spent the day sharing the game with the next generation.

It was awesome to watch these girls learn, compete, laugh and grow while being led by some of the best players in the game. There is something really powerful about being a young player and not just seeing women play at the highest level, but getting to stand beside them, learn from them and understand that there is a path forward for you in this game too.

That kind of access and visibility matters, especially as the women’s game continues to grow.

Really grateful to PLL Assists for creating such a beautiful space for girls to experience the game, build confidence and learn from women who are helping shape what the future of lacrosse can look like.

The growth of the women’s game is good for all of lacrosse, and it was really special to see a little piece of that future in Duluth.

08/28/2026

Last night I got to play Baaga’adowewin at Bapashkominitigong Baaga’adowekamig in Fond du Lac in a community game hosted by my friend and Ojibwe stickmaker Thomas Howes and his community.

It’s hard to fully explain how meaningful it felt to be there. To play Baaga’adowewin in a place where the language is present, where the game is being held in community, and where even the ball field itself carries the name of the game felt really special.

It reminded me again that this game carries so much more than competition. It carries memory, land, language, relationship and people.

I’m really grateful for friends like Thomas who continue to make space for this kind of gathering. Nights like that feel like a reminder of what the game is supposed to do: bring us together, keep us connected and help us remember what it all means.

08/27/2026

Yesterday, we partnered with our friends at USA Lacrosse as they continue expanding lacrosse within physical education programs across our region.

We spent the day with elementary PE teachers from Seattle Public Schools, in collaboration with ShapeWashington, at Robert Eagle Staff Middle School in Seattle, a place with its own meaningful history as the former home of the Indian Heritage School.

For us, teaching the roots of lacrosse is just as fundamental as teaching how to pass, catch, scoop, or cradle. We were honored to spend time sharing the Indigenous origins of the game and some of the teachings carried through the many stories and traditions surrounding it.

Lacrosse is for everybody. Play with joy. Play with a good mind. Lacrosse is medicine.

These teachings remind us that there is so much more to this game than the skills we practice. When educators understand where lacrosse comes from and what the game can teach us, they have an opportunity to introduce young people to the game in a deeper and more meaningful way.

Thank you USA Lacrosse for inviting us into this space and for recognizing that growing the game also means honoring its roots.

08/26/2026

Last night, we gathered here in Tacoma for a beautiful evening of Creator’s Game.

Native and non-Native community came together through a shared love of the game. We practiced the modern game, learned the basics of Baaga’adowewin, and ended the night with one of the most beautiful community games of Baaga’adowewin we’ve been part of.

It meant even more to have our friend and Ojibwe relative Duane there with his boys, helping us hold this game in relationship to the people and communities it comes from.

We also played our first-ever Gift Game, something shared with us by our friend and stick maker Thomas Howes . Another reminder that Creator’s Game is about so much more than competition. It is about relationship, generosity, laughter, movement, and community.

Thank you to everyone who came out, picked up a stick, learned something new, shared what you know, and played alongside us.

This is what Creator’s Community Game is meant to be.

We’ll gather again in mid-September. ❤️🥍

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