Pacific Northwest Native Lacrosse

🥍🎤 THE RÉMY FILES 🎤🥍

At our Creator’s Game Culture Camp this past weekend, our friend Rémy took on a very important assignment: finding out why people love lacrosse.

Armed with a microphone and plenty of confidence, she spent the day interviewing participants and asking them why they like Lacrosse.

The best part? Rémy is a lacrosse player herself and recently helped lead her team to a championship, an accomplishment she is incredibly proud of.

Watching Native youth build confidence, share their voices, and take ownership within our community is one of the most rewarding parts of what we do.

Check out some of Rémy’s interviews from camp. We have a feeling this won’t be the last episodes of The Rémy Files.

The difference between lacrosse and Native lacrosse is culture, and this past weekend was a beautiful example of that.

Native youth from across the region joined us at Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center for what was one of the most important weekends in the history of .

Throughout the day, youth made drums, ribbon skirts, medicine bags, cedar baskets, and paddle necklaces. They processed bison hide, played Choctaw Ishtaboli, learned and played the Creator’s Game, and spent the day surrounded by culture, community, and Indigenous knowledge holders.

For us, this is what Culture Through Creator’s Game looks like.

Swipe through these photos to see some of our favorite moments from our first ever Creator’s Game Culture Camp.

Thank you to our partners and for helping to make it happen.

We are already excited for the next one. 🥍

One of our favorite parts of is the moment we get to place a lacrosse stick into the hands of a Native youth for the very first time.

Early in our journey, we knew that removing barriers to access had to be foundational to who we are and what we do. If Native youth are going to connect to the Creator’s Game, they need the opportunity to play beyond a single clinic or event. At a minimum, that starts with having a stick of their own.

This week, we had the opportunity to gift five Native youth from the Tulalip Tribes their very first stick.

A huge thank you to for helping make moments like these possible. Your partnership continues to create real opportunities for Native youth to access and experience the game.

Our mission has always been simple: More Native Youth Playing Lacrosse.

Every stick gifted, every new player, every clinic, and every relationship built brings us one step closer to that vision.

We can’t wait to see where the Creator’s Game takes these young people next. 🥍

Last night we held our second ever lacrosse clinic in Tulalip in partnership with the Tulalip Tribes and the Tulalip Education Division. 🥍

We love working directly with the Tribes in our region and are always humbled and honored to be invited into these spaces to share the Creator’s Game.

The clinic was a great mix of new players picking up a stick for the first time and returning players continuing their journey with the game. It was especially exciting to see many of the Native youth who will be joining us in Montana next month for The Gathering.

Moments like these remind us that growing the game is really about growing community. Every clinic, every player, and every relationship helps strengthen what we are building together.

We are incredibly grateful to continue sharing the Creator’s Game with the Tulalip community and look forward to continuing this partnership in the future.

A special thank you to Sabrina and for helping make this clinic possible. We are grateful for your support, partnership, and commitment to creating opportunities for Tulalip youth through the Creator’s Game.

What a weekend.

We had an incredible time at the Indigenous People Festival with our friends sharing the Creator’s Game with the community at .

Throughout the weekend we had the opportunity to teach Native and non-Native attendees about the Indigenous origins of lacrosse, the traditional stick and ball games that influenced the modern game, and most importantly, that these games are still being played in Native communities today.

One of the highlights of the weekend was hosting our first ever Creator’s Community Game beneath the Space Needle. Players of all ages and experience levels took the field together using a mix of modern sticks and traditional Haudenosaunee, Choctaw, and Ojibwe sticks in a beautiful celebration of the game and the communities that carry it forward.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, picked up a stick, asked questions, played a game, or shared a story with us.

The Creator’s Game has always been about bringing people together, and this weekend felt like a beautiful example of that.

Photo dump from a great weekend. 🥍

Twenty-five years ago, a teacher introduced me to lacrosse because she knew I was a Native kid and thought I might connect to the game.

She was right.

What started as a stick in my hands became a journey that has shaped so much of my life. It has taken me across the country, introduced me to incredible people, and helped me better understand who I am as a Native man.

I am Sugpiaq and enrolled with the Native Village of Eyak. Cordova is home to the Native Village of Eyak and a place where my family lived along Prince William Sound. These are my homelands.

This photo was taken last summer in Cordova wearing our Creator’s Game shirt.

Next month, through , we will host our first-ever lacrosse clinic in Cordova in partnership with Native Village of Eyak and the City of Cordova Parks & Recreation.

To be able to bring Creator’s Game to my homelands is something I never could have imagined when I first picked up a stick as a kid.

It feels like a full-circle moment.

The game found me because someone believed a Native kid would connect with it. Now we have the opportunity to share that same experience with the next generation of youth in Cordova.

July 11th. Cordova, Alaska.

Creator’s Game is coming to my homelands.

We are incredibly excited to officially open our session registration for our first ever Creator’s Game Culture Camp at Daybreak Star. 🥍

Creator’s Game Culture Camp is built around a simple idea: using the Creator’s Game to connect Native youth to culture, community, creativity, movement, and Indigenous teachings in a real and hands-on way.

Throughout the day, youth will have the opportunity to choose workshops and learn directly from incredible Native artists, makers, culture bearers, educators, and community leaders.

Participants will be able to engage in:
🥍 Traditional & Modern Lacrosse
🥍 Choctaw Stickball
🥍 Drum Making
🥍 Ribbon Skirt/Shirt Making
🥍 Cedar Bracelet Making (announcing soon)
🥍 Medicine Wheel Paddle Necklaces .1983
🥍 Medicine Bag Making (announcing soon)
🥍 Bison Hide Processing .qbc._
🥍 Blue Corn Food Sovereignty .ill.be.soil

Every workshop is being led by community educators who are carrying forward living traditions and teachings from their own communities.

This is more than a camp. It is a space for Native youth to gather, create, move, learn, laugh, and connect through the Creator’s Game.

Swipe through to see the classes, workshops, and educators who are helping bring this vision to life. If you are interested in volunteering please DM us.

Registration is now live at the link in our bio. Participants will select their workshops during registration, and space in some classes is limited.

Please help us spread the word. This one means a lot to us. It is 100 % free for Native youth and families.

Next month, and our All Native travel teams will take the field once again at The Gathering in Whitefish, MT.

This summer we will have boys and girls teams competing at both the youth and high school levels, making this our biggest tournament yet as a club, and we couldn’t be more excited.

Flip through these photos from last summer as our players proudly wore NATIVES across their chests while representing their communities, families, and cultures through the Creator’s Game.

What started as a dream to simply gather Native youth together through lacrosse has continued to grow into something incredibly powerful. This summer, we return bigger and stronger than ever before.

We are still actively looking for players in the following divisions:

🥍 32/33 Boys
🥍 34/35 Boys
🥍 34/35 Girls

While we have enough players to compete, a few more additions would be amazing.

If your player is interested in joining us in Whitefish, send us a DM or sign up at the link in our bio.

Please help us spread the word and make sure to cheer on our Native players as they prepare to represent next month. 🥍

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