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More Native Youth Playing Lacrosse, The Creator's Game.

10/16/2026

Join PNW NATIVE LACROSSE and the incredible team at Lewis & Clark Women's Lacrosse for Native Girls Play Lacrosse next weekend!

Come sharpen your skills, pick up a stick for the very first time, and connect with other Native girls through Creator’s Game.

Whether you already play or have never tried lacrosse, we’re excited to welcome you onto the field. Come learn, challenge yourself, have fun, and build confidence.

Participation is 100% FREE for Native girls, and first-time participants will receive their own lacrosse stick to keep!

Our friends We R Native will be joining us, too! A project of the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, We R Native supports Native youth across the Pacific Northwest and beyond with resources that connect health, culture, identity, and well-being. We’re excited to have them be part of this gathering.

📍 Griswold Stadium • Lewis & Clark College • Portland, OR
📅 Saturday, October 24
⏰ 2:00–3:30 PM

Sign up through the link in our bio. Share this with a family, friend, school, or community organization and help us reach Native girls who would love this opportunity.

We can’t wait to play with you!

10/13/2026

Lacrosse that Leads to the Land.

The more I connect with my Native identity, the more I find myself here, with the Land at the center. Creator’s Game keeps bringing me into relationship with the world around me, reminding me that I’m part of something bigger.

An evening at Owen Beach with my Johnson Lacrosse stick, playing a game that comes from the Land, on the Land.

Grateful for where it’s taking me.

🎵: XIT : Color Natural Gone (1973)

10/12/2026

INDIGENOUS YOUTH ARE EVERYTHING. 💛

Not because of who they might become, but because of who they already are.

They are curious, creative, funny, resilient, full of life, and deserving of every opportunity to grow into whoever they choose to be.

Through Creator’s Game, we’ve had the privilege of meeting hundreds of incredible Native young people from communities across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. These portraits capture just a few of the faces we’ve come to know along the way.

We believe our responsibility as relatives is to create spaces where our young people can simply be. Where they can play, laugh, learn, connect with their cultures, build relationships, and know that they belong.

When we invest in our youth, we invest in the well-being of our communities and the generations to come.

On Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate our young people exactly as they are today, while honoring the endless possibilities ahead of them.

May they always know how cared for, valued, and needed they are.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

LACROSSE IS MEDICINE.

10/07/2026

LACROSSE THAT LEADS TO THE LAND. 🥍 🌲🌊

Introducing GATHER, a new way for our Native families to come together through Creator’s Game.

Because lacrosse was never just about lacrosse.

It’s about how we move, how we care for our bodies, how we connect with the Land, how we learn from the world around us, and how we take care of one another.

On November 8, we’re heading to Owen Beach to do just that!

We’ll walk the shoreline, breathe the salt air, move our bodies, play catch, notice the little lives around us, draw what we see, and share food, stories, and time together.

Every Native youth will receive a RiteInTheRain field notebook to begin their own practice of observing, drawing, writing, and getting to know the Land.

We’re having a community potluck! Bring a dish, a song, a story, a teaching, or something meaningful to share with your relatives. Everyone has something to offer, and your presence is a gift, too.

No experience needed and no expectations. Just come as you are! Bring your family, your curiosity, and your lacrosse stick if you have one.

Creator’s Game brings us together. The Land has more to teach us.

📍 Owen Beach, Tacoma
📅 November 8, 2026
⏰ 10 AM to 1 PM
🌧️ Rain or shine
🪶 Free for Native youth and families

SIGN UP AT THE LINK IN OUR BIO!

RELATIVES EVERYWHERE.

10/06/2026

THE GAME STARTS HERE.

Ground balls. Shooting. Learning how to move with a stick in your hands and doing it again.

A few weeks into our time with Squaxin Island Tribe , we’re beginning to see something simple and important: kids learning Creator’s Game and getting more comfortable every time we come back.

There is a lot we hope this game can lead to, but it starts here, with the basics, another rep and the desire to keep playing.

CULTURE THROUGH CREATOR’S GAME.

10/05/2026

WE’RE BACK IN PORTLAND.

Native Girls Play Lacrosse returns October 24 for an afternoon of Creator’s Game at Griswold Stadium.

Whether you’re picking up a stick for the first time or already play, come spend the afternoon building skills, getting reps and connecting to the roots of the game alongside female collegiate lacrosse players.

First-timers and experienced players are welcome. Free lacrosse sticks will be available for first-time players.

OCTOBER 24
2:00–3:30 PM
Griswold Stadium
0615 SW Palatine Hill Rd, Portland

Big thanks to our friends Lewis & Clark Women's Lacrosse for welcoming us back and helping create space for Native girls to play.

Free to attend. Sign up at the link in our bio.

NATIVE GIRLS PLAY LACROSSE

10/01/2026

I think this was the moment I began to understand what PNW NATIVE LACROSSE could be.

These photos are from our first tournament in June of 2024, before our first game.

I remember how proud I felt lighting our smudge and cleansing our team before we stepped onto the field. The eagle feather in these photos is the same feather my mother used to smudge my wife and I on our wedding day.

At the time, I don’t think I had the language for what was happening. We were just trying to create something that felt right. Something that felt like us.

Looking back, I can see the path beginning.

The game was teaching us how to practice and brining us home.
We didn’t take lacrosse and add culture to it. We followed Creator’s Game, and it led us deeper into relationship with our relatives, the land, language, food, ceremony and gathering.

Eventually, we found the words for it:

CULTURE THROUGH CREATOR’S GAME.

We followed the game here.

And we’re still following.

09/29/2026

SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER

Somewhere along the road, a lacrosse goal.

Nothing staged, nothing remarkable.

Except maybe how ordinary it is here.

LACROSSE EVERYWHERE.

08.31.2025 / 12:39 PM

LACROSSE EVERYWHERE is our practice of looking for Creator’s Game beyond the lines of a field. In communities and on the land. In the places we travel and in the lives of the people who carry it.

Sometimes it’s a game. Sometimes it’s a stick leaning against a wall. Sometimes it’s a goal sitting in the grass along the road.

The game lives in places and people. We want to document where we find it.

09/28/2026

ANCIENT + ALIVE.

One of my favorite things about this work is getting to teach about the many Indigenous stick and ball games that are still being played across Turtle Island.

These games come from particular people, places and traditions, with their own ways of playing and understanding them.

But seeing all of these sticks laid out together is a pretty powerful reminder that these games aren’t something that only exist in history books or museum collections. People are still making the sticks. People are still learning the games. Kids are still picking them up and playing.

These games are still here, and without them, none of us would have the game we all love today.

09/24/2026

SEATTLE, WE’RE GATHERING.

This one came together a little quickly, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to bring 4D LAX back to Daybreak Star with United Indians of All Tribes this weekend.

4D LAX is our introduction to Creator’s Game through a cultural lens. We’ll play, move, learn the game, and spend time together rooted in the understanding that lacrosse has always been more than sport.

PLAY LACROSSE. ROOTED IN CULTURE.

📍 Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center
📅 September 26, 2026
⏰ 12:30–3:30 PM
📍 Seattle, WA

Come gather with us. Sign up at the link in our bio.

All first time participants get a lacrosse stick.

Huge thank you to Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB) for making this possible and our friends United Indians of All Tribes for hosting us.

CULTURE THROUGH CREATOR’S GAME.

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1602 Martin Luther King Jr Way
Tacoma, WA
98405

Website

http://www.pnwnativelax.com/

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