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-Why is the city of Lacrosse
-!Wisconsin, named after a sport?

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-The backstory links medieval
-!France, one of North America's

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-!oldest games and early travelers
-to the region.

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-!Traditional lacrosse is a game
-!that's been played by Indigenous

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-people across North America
-for centuries.

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-This game
-has many different names

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-among various native groups.
-The Ho-Chunk call it caabna,

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-for example. -The first Europeans
-who saw the game

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-thought it looked similar
-to a French game

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-known as la soule a la crosse
-that dates back to the 1100s.

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-Soule was the ball
-and crosse was the curved

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-or hooked
-stick used to move the ball.

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-They called the native game
-jeu de la crosse,

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-the game of the curved stick.

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-Eventually this was shortened
-to just lacrosse.

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-In the early 1800s,
-the American explorer

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-Zebulon Pike wrote -!about a prairie called ""Le Cross
-from a game of ball

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-played frequently on it
-by the Sioux Indians."

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-The name of La Crosse,
-which was based on a medieval

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-French game used by Europeans
-!to describe a traditional Native

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-game, stuck around.