Lacrosse Book Talk: Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning Through Rematriation

Since the 1970s, lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities  have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition. Lacrosse is also known as the medicine game as it is part of a medicine ceremony named in creation narratives and the Great Law of Peace that binds the six nations of the Haudenosaunee confeeracy. The number of Haudenosaunee women and girls playing the sport has burgeoned since the 1980s. This book roots lacrosse as a Haudenosaunee sport both within and outside of these communities.

Dr. Sharity Bassett is an Assistant Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies and Associate Director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education (EQI) at UW-Milwaukee. Dr. Bassett teaches courses for UWM’s Women’s & Gender Studies and American Indian Studies programs, including Indigenous Feminisms, Indigiqueer Theory and Praxis, Critical Disability Studies, and Feminist Research Methods.

Dr. Bassett will, in conversation with Dr. Samantha Majhor, Assistant Professor of English at Marquette University and Alex Gambacorta, former Marquette women’s lacrosse player, host this book talk on Monday, November 11, 2024 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Lunda Room in the Alumni Memorial Union at Marquette University, 1450 W. Wisconsin Avenue.