Finals, 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship: Iroquois Nationals v. Canada

This final, 46th game of the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship took place at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse on Sunday afternoon, September 27, after 10 days of play and 45 games between 11 teams. In the final game the Iroquois Nationals played Canada.

As the playing week progressed, many folks became convinced that the final game would be between these two great teams. Canada has never been beaten in this annual competition ever. The Iroquois Nationals are strong and could conceivably overcome Canada this year.

The crowd in the Carrier Dome was overwhelmingly purple! 

These photos do not show play but the ceremony following the game. It was a precious moment.

Canada won 12-8. No one has anything to feel bad about. It was a spectacular game! US came in third; Israel came in fourth.

2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship: Turkey v. Serbia

Turkey and Serbia playing at the new Village Arena at Onondaga Nation on Friday, September 25. Turkey prevailed. 

Tsha' Thoñ'nhes

 "Where they play ball"

Brand new arena at Onondaga Nation, 

built in time for the 2015 World Indoor Lacrosse Championship; 

a truly spectacular and beautiful building.

Onoñda’géga’ Ohnéganos; Onondaga Water, the Sacred Lake

The Creekwalk ends at Onondaga Lake, long a sacred place for the Onondagas, as it should have been for all of us. It ended up being the most heavily polluted lake in the United States. Efforts to return it to its natural state are slow coming, minuscule and half-hearted. Still, this sign is welcome, situated at the beginning of the lake where bald eagles have been seen during especially cold winters. Today it was raw and cold down there. Still, it is a wonderful place to be.

I could not find the true Onondaga word or words to put a name to the lake here. The best I could locate were the word for the Onondaga people, and the word for water.

Haudenousaunee and Two Row Flags at Onondaga Nation Before the Two Row Campaign Launch

Pompey: Indian Hill

Onondaga Nation and NOON: Water is Life Festival

The Two Row Wampum

 

Here is our neighbor Chief Jake Edwards, of Onondaga, at the United Nations in May during the Eleventh Annual UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He is displaying the Two Row Wampum belt, the basis of trust in agreements of respect between native peoples living just to the south and east of what is now called Lake Ontario, and the Dutch and other traders and settlers who came, slowly at first and then in increasing numbers, to "explore", claim and profit from this same region. 

A symbolic enactment on the Hudson River during the summer of 2013, the 400th anniversary of the Two Row Wampum treaty, will remind us of the significance of the first people living here and what happened to them at the hands of the self-appointed new "owners". European advancement was completely reinforced by the Catholic Church, which recognized no religion but Catholicism nor the rights of any peoples with different beliefs. 

For more information about the Two Row Campaign, go to these pages, and to these pages about NOON, Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation, and to Syracuse Peace Council. 

The Onondaga Nation tells about the Two Row Wampum on this page.