Kevin Sandy: bringing the game back to its people

A photograph of Kevin Sandy, co-chair of the Indigenous Partnership Council with the Canada Games and a member of the Cayuga Nation, playing with a traditional wooden lacrosse stick with a deerskin ball. Image by Bobby Hristova and sourced from CBC.

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“It’s awesome and beautiful because a lot of people don’t understand that we still have our games here.”

Kevin Sandy.

 

Kevin Sandy, the director of Haudenosaunee Lacrosse and a member of the Lower Cayuga Nation, leads workshops and clinics across North America that tie the lacrosse back to its history, spirituality, and ceremony.

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