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Lacrosse, also known as the medicine game, has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America. Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to reclaim the traditions of lacrosse. This book works to connect larger conversations within Haudenosaunee communities regarding the power that women hold and the rematriation of power to define and uphold the medicine game tradition.
A propos de l'auteur
Sharity L. Bassett is assistant professor of women's and gender studies and associate director of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). She has been involved in collaborative research with Haudenosaunee communities in New York State, Ontario, and Montreal since 2011. She earned her PhD in global gender studies at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a recipient of the faculty impact award through the Honors College and the Award for Outstanding Service for the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at South Dakota State University.
Bassett is working with tribal nations to create interactive databases and curriculum using historical records and oral history. She is also crafting her experiences in various archival spaces into an autoethnographic work that analyzes the barriers to archival knowledges. Bassett teaches courses for UWM's women's and gender studies and American Indian studies programs, including Indigenous feminisms, Indigequeer theory and praxis, critical disability studies, and feminist research methods.
Résumé
Since the 1970s lacrosse has become one of the fastest-growing sports in North America, and Haudenosaunee communities have worked at the international level to claim lacrosse as an important part of Haudenosaunee culture and tradition.
