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We are incredibly excited to officially open our session registration for our first ever Creator’s Game Culture Camp at ...
06/09/2026

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 summe...
06/09/2026

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. 🥍

📸: .photography

06/05/2026

Come play the Creator’s Game under the Space Needle.

We are trying to gather as many participants as possible for our Creator’s Community Game on June 13 at 2PM at Seattle Center as part of the Indigenous People Festival.

This community game is open to Native and non-Native players, families, and anyone who wants to experience the Creator’s Game for the first time.

No experience and no equipment are necessary. We will teach the basics and then play a fun community game using traditional goal posts and ball with modern lacrosse sticks.

The traditional stick and ball games were often played with large numbers of community members gathered together. This game is our way of honoring that spirit through community, movement, joy, and play.

Sign up at the link in our bio for more details and please help us spread the word. 🥍

06/04/2026

A few weeks back we had the opportunity to partner with to speak with a group of Seattle Public Schools teachers about the origins of the game and the work we do at .

If you have ever wondered who we are and what we do, this is it.

We use the Creator’s Game as a way to connect Native youth to culture, community, and for some, a deeper understanding of who they are as Native people. At the same time, we work to educate the broader lacrosse community about the Indigenous origins of the game and the traditional stick and ball games that gave way to what we now call lacrosse.

One of the most important things we try to help people understand is that these traditional games are not relics of the past. They are living games that are still being played in Native communities today.

We also remind people that Native people are incredibly diverse. There are 29 federally recognized tribes in Washington State alone and more than 570 federally recognized tribes across the United States. Each has its own culture, language, teachings, food systems, traditions, and games.

It is an honor for us to help educate about some of the traditional Native stick and ball games that influenced modern lacrosse and to continue reminding people of a simple truth:

Lacrosse is a Native game. 🥍🪶

We are excited to announce the next conversation in our Creator’s Game Speaker Series:Creator’s Game: Traditional Stickb...
06/03/2026

We are excited to announce the next conversation in our Creator’s Game Speaker Series:

Creator’s Game: Traditional Stickball Among the Eastern Cherokee

Join us for a powerful conversation with Dr. Natalie Welch ( ), an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, as we learn more about one of the traditional Native stickball games that we know helped shape and influence what we now call modern lacrosse.

Growing up on the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina, Dr. Welch experienced firsthand the passion, politics, community, and cultural importance of Cherokee stickball. During her doctoral studies, she closely examined both the men’s and women’s games and produced the documentary film She Carries On about the rise of women’s stickball among the Eastern Cherokee.

Today, stickball remains one of the most powerful cultural and athletic expressions within Cherokee community life, and we are honored to create space to learn more about this living tradition.

These conversations continue to remind us that the roots of the game are deep, diverse, and still very much alive today across Native communities.

If you have been enjoying this series or are curious to learn more about the Indigenous origins and living traditions connected to the Creator’s Game, you will not want to miss this conversation.

Register at the link in our bio. 🥍

This past weekend at the Inclusive Indigenous Games Showcase with , we had the opportunity to meet, teach, and play the ...
06/02/2026

This past weekend at the Inclusive Indigenous Games Showcase with , we had the opportunity to meet, teach, and play the Creator’s Game with our new friend .

Tyler is a Tulalip Tribal member, coach, athlete, advocate, and founder of the team. He has been a powerful voice for Indigenous athletes and continues to create meaningful space for Native representation, leadership, and inclusion within the Special Olympics community.

Tyler quickly connected with the game, and we had an absolute blast teaching and playing with him throughout the day.

He also gave the opening remarks to kick off the Indigenous Games Showcase, and we were deeply moved by his words, leadership, and the pride he carries for his community and fellow athletes.

It was an honor for us to gift Tyler a lacrosse stick and share the Creator’s Game with him.

A huge thank you to Tyler for everything he does to advocate for Indigenous athletes and for helping create space for Native visibility and representation within 🥍

We are excited to be back for our second year at the Indigenous People Festival at in partnership with on Saturday, Ju...
06/01/2026

We are excited to be back for our second year at the Indigenous People Festival at in partnership with on Saturday, June 13 from 10AM–7PM.

This event is a celebration of Native art, culture, and community, and will once again be bringing our immersive Creator’s Game tent experience to help educate Native and non-Native attendees about the Indigenous origins of lacrosse and how the traditional stick and ball games from across Turtle Island gave way to what we now call lacrosse today.

Throughout the day, attendees will have the opportunity to see and try traditional stick styles from various Native game traditions and learn about the living cultures connected to them.

🥍 COMMUNITY EXHIBITION GAME — 2PM 🥍

This year we are especially excited to host our first ever Community Exhibition Game.

We will start with a quick lesson on the fundamentals of the game and then open things up for a fun community game using traditional goal posts, a traditional ball, and modern sticks.

No experience or equipment is needed. Just come ready to learn, move, and play.

This game is open to Native and non-Native people of all ages and abilities who want to experience the Creator’s Game in a community-centered way.

Sign up at the link in our bio.

Come find us at Seattle Center and join us for a beautiful day of culture, community, and lacrosse. 🥍

When we first dreamed about building our All Native travel teams, was one of the first goalies to suit up for .This pas...
06/01/2026

When we first dreamed about building our All Native travel teams, was one of the first goalies to suit up for .

This past weekend, Jase earned an invite to training camp for the alongside some of the best Native lacrosse players in the world.

On top of that, our friend and one of our favorite Native players, .rent28, also made training camp with the at .

This is a huge moment for us. To see one of our own players and one of our longtime friends getting the opportunity to compete for a place on the biggest stage in Native lacrosse means a lot.

Watching Native players continue to rise and represent our communities at the highest levels of the game is powerful, and we couldn’t be more proud of both of these guys.

Proud of you boys. .rent28 🥍

05/30/2026

Today we had the incredible honor of teaching the Creator’s Game at the Inclusive Indigenous Games Showcase with for the second year in a row.

We met incredible Native and non-Native athletes from across the state and had the opportunity to teach and play both the traditional and modern forms of lacrosse together.

These athletes carry so much joy, curiosity, gratitude, and excitement, and we were incredibly grateful to spend time with this community through the game.

A huge thank you to for inviting us back and continuing to create space for Indigenous games and community connection.

The song featured in this video was sung by Native leader and Special Olympics athlete Myron Swimmer. 🥍

One of our favorite ways to end almost every camp and clinic is with a community game.We split into teams and everybody ...
05/29/2026

One of our favorite ways to end almost every camp and clinic is with a community game.

We split into teams and everybody jumps in. Participants, parents, teachers, coaches, siblings. Everybody plays.

There’s something deeply meaningful about watching our Native community come together through the Creator’s Game to practice the skills they just learned and simply enjoy playing together.

The laughter, the friendly competition, the learning, the movement, the connection. That’s good Medicine.

We believe one of the best ways to grow the game is to create spaces where people feel comfortable enough to just play.

Huge thank you to our friend for capturing these moments from our time with the Shoreline School District Native program.

And another huge thank you to our friends for the new sticks that we got to put into action with this group for the very first time. 🥍

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