WIM-08-C
Consignment
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John Jenkins Designs WIM-08 Woodland Indians Playing Lacrosse
Limited Edition of 500 sets, Certificate Included.
Jesuit missionaries from France in the 17th Century first observed the Huron Indians playing a game. They called it “La Crosse” because the Natives’ sticks resembled the Crosier carried by French Bishops as a symbol of office.
Although the Europeans initially saw the game as savage, they soon began to enjoy watching it and often placed bets among themselves on the winner of a match.
In 1763, Fort Michilimackinac, which the French had relinquished in 1761 to the British following their loss in the French and Indian War, became the site of a dramatic incident involving the sport of Lacrosse.
On June 2nd as part of the larger movement known as Pontiac’s Rebellion, a group of Qjibwe Indians staged a game of Lacrosse outside the fort as a ruse to gain entrance. Whilst the British became absorbed in the game, a party of Indians slipped past the distracted sentries and captured the fort.
After gaining entrance to the fort, they killed most of the British inhabitants and held the fort for a year before the British retook it with the promise of more and better gifts to the native inhabitants of the area.