La Crosse - America's Oldest Game
Author: Unknown

A visitor from another planet would be perplexed and perhaps even frightened by the odd looking sticks with a strange net attached, being twirled by some athletes today.
Is it a butterfly net? A crab net? A big swatter?

No, just a lacrosse stick, the primary equipment (along with a hard rubber ball) of a lacrosse player, who plays the oldest game in the North American continent.

Lacrosse - Little Brother of War
With Amanda Smith Transcript from National Radio, Australia Broadcast Corporation
5/7/2002Guests on this program:
Thomas Vennum - Historian/Author Lacrosse - Little Brother of War; Ed Burman - Iroquios player ;Oren Lyons - Faithkeeper of the Onondaga, member of Lacrosse Hall of Fame;Doug Fox - former captain of the Australian lacrosse team

"Little Brother of War"
By Adele Conover
Lacrosse - Little Brother of War
Smithsonian Magazine December 1997

Lacrosse sticks were tools of the trade in a rugged Indian game now growing popular around the world.