Tomorrow, alongside Thanksgiving dinner, there is also the annual Thanksgiving football.

But there is a lesser celebrated sport that is uniquely American.

We spoke with longtime sports reporter Scott Price about his new book on lacrosse, part of our series, Race Matters.

My name is Scott L. Price. I am the author of the American Game, History and Hope, in the country of lacrosse.

Most people, their understanding of lacrosse is limited to the collegiate game, which really reaches its culmination every memorial day with the NCAA championships.

What most people don't understand is that for the Iroquois, the Haud Nassoni,

the game has an incredible death that goes far beyond recreation or exercise. The game was created

a thousand years ago as recreation, as a way to settle boundary disputes and train warriors,

but centrally as a way to entertain the creator. And not only that,

but used as a way to heal the community. A stick and ball game was quite common among all the

tribes. They had different variations. Some played with two sticks. Some had, you know, sort of short

sticks with a little, the head of it was kind of

round and webbed, as opposed to the classic idea of a lacrosse stick. It's a spiritual practice

for the Haudenosaun. They play a medicine game for healing in the community and for individuals.

And then they're playing for sovereignty and for a political mission. In the late

1800s, the Mohawks especially were in Canada giving exhibitions and playing lacrosse, and a soon-to-be

dentist named George Beers took it upon himself to sort of appropriate lacrosse from the Native

Americans.

La Crosse was originally part of a Red Indians training for war, but now to civilized sport. Originally, Canada, the US, England and Australia were lacrosse powers.

And I will tell you, I did 370 interviews for this book, and even people who have no real connection to the spiritual

Native American aspect of it get sort of this dreamy-eyed expression on their face.

This commemorates peace and friendship for the between the United States and the Houdin

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